Tesla Vehicle Safety Report For Q2 2020 Shows Minor Improvements

The number of accidents per million miles driven improved year-over-year.

Tesla Vehicle Safety Report for the second quarter of 2020 does not bring any breakthroughs. The number of accidents per million miles driven is decreasing year-over-year in each category, but without any records.

The company registered:

It’s important to note that the results are comparable only for a particular category, not between the categories as the input data might be widely different. In other words, we can only see whether the active safety systems are improving over time, but can’t compare Autopilot to non-Autopilot driving.

We assume that the proper use of Autopilot improves safety, but Tesla’s report does not allow us to evaluate the difference.

Tesla Safety Report – Q2 2020

“In the 2nd quarter, we registered one accident for every 4.53 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.27 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.56 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles.”

Important factors:

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