Tesla has an outstanding
Tesla has an outstanding safety record, and stories to the contrary are primarily serving Tesla stock short sellers. I personally helped develop automobile tracking systems, and the number one issue that the average person does not understand is that there are absolutely ZERO electronic safety systems that operate 100% perfectly, all the time. Yet every single Tesla accident in the world is instantly published across the internet, completely ignoring the fact that about 90 people die every day in auto accidents in the U.S. and pretty much every single one of those accidents and deaths are caused by humans driving their own vehicles. In comparison to those numbers here are Autopilot's numbers: Tesla’s Vehicle Safety Report for Q4 2019 revealed that a Tesla on Autopilot was involved in one accident for every 3.07 million miles driven. For those without Autopilot but use the active safety features of the vehicle, there was one accident per 2.10 million miles driven. Tesla owners who do not use Autopilot and other active safety features were involved in one accident for every 1.64 million miles driven. Overall, these numbers are far better than what’s been recorded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) which indicates there being one automobile crash in the United States every 479,000 miles. So I would be very happy to take those odds and trust Tesla's safety systems to watch and protect me against all of those impatient, intoxicated, and inattentive human drivers out there. Do I expect that it will operate without any errors, ever? Certainly not. But with the mess of dangerous human drivers out there that I experience in my daily commute, I would be very happy to trust an advanced computer safety system watch by back, and front, and sides, every second of the drive.