Tesla’s Autopilot missed this collision, but luckily the human driver didn’t

[Guest Chris Mills]

Tesla's Autopilot makes driving safer. That was the statistics-based conclusion of an exhaustive NHTSA report, which found that Tesla's self-driving software generally reduced accidents by around 40 percent.

 

But general themes don't hold true in every case, and Autopilot isn't always "better" than the Mark 1 human brain, as this video of a very near miss clearly shows.

 

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