What Philip Koopman thinks about benchmarks
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University who works on self-driving car safety and dependable embedded systems, principal technical contributor to the ANSI/UL 4600 autonomous-vehicle safety standard and author of How Safe Is Safe Enough? He writes the Safe Autonomy blog, which is largely an argument that the industry's public safety claims do not survive contact with the statistics.
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1 dated position, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Philip Koopman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAny true safety improvement for Tesla is good to have, but is much more likely due to comparison against an "average" vehicle (12 years old in the US) which is much less safe than any recent high-end vehicle regardless of manufacturer, and probably not driven on roads as safe on average as where Teslas are more popular.
↗Take Tesla safety claims with about a pound of saltsafeautonomy.blogspot.com 2nd of 2 in this piece