A Reuters investigation showed that Tesla inflated safety claims in its self-reported data to Dutch and Swedish regulators.
A Reuters investigation found that Tesla submitted inaccurate safety data to regulators in Sweden and The Netherlands as it sought approval for its Full Self-Driving mode, reports Al Landes in Gadget Review.
"Tesla policy manager Ivan Komusanac told Swedish regulators that FSD-equipped Teslas drive more than seven times farther between crashes than the average U.S. driver. A companion slide projected that widespread FSD adoption could have saved 32,000 lives and prevented 1.9 million injuries." However, a closer look at the data reveals that Tesla mismatched data — counting only severe crashes for its own cars while using a broader figure for overall crash rates — and assumes that every vehicle will be replaced by an FSD-equipped Tesla, inflating the number of potential lives saved by the technology.
According to Landes, "A Norwegian Public Roads Administration official noted Tesla’s figures are 'self-produced,' making them nearly impossible to cross-reference with official accident statistics." In documentation submitted by the company to U.S. regulator NHTSA, Tesla redacted methodology details, a move uncommon in the industry. Of 11 independent researchers that Reuters consulted about the data, 10 agreed that it was "not a serious safety analysis."
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