Does AP stack mileage for Safety Score?

[ys4912]

I heard that whatever happened during AP does not impact the safety score. Is that true? if so, does it stack the mileage? or you get mileage on safety only when you drive manually?

 

[HappyPanda]

The mileage counts, so it can be a good way to increase your score. However, negative factors are based on the percentage of time they happen while you are manually driving. So if you have AP on 90% of the time and have a "hard brake" during your manual driving, it'll ding you more than if you manually drove the whole time.

 

[TresLA]

I heard that whatever happened during AP does not impact the safety score. Is that true? if so, does it stack the mileage? or you get mileage on safety only when you drive manually?

Correct, whatever “happens” when AP is engaged does not impact the safety score. But it does add those miles to the number that’s used to calculate that day’s weight in your average.

So if your manual driving for that day is perfect (i.e. - you have a 100% safety score) and you also drive many miles on AP, then it will really help your overall safety score. But if you had a bad day of manual driving (i.e. - low safety score), then a lot of miles on AP would hurt your overall score more.

In other words, if you have a great day so far of driving manually, then stay on AP to prevent incidences from dinging your score. If you get dinged at all, then keep driving manually to bring your score back up (unless, of course, you’re in an environment where manually driving runs a high risk of getting dinged).