the interior camera was not mandatory until V10.2... story on that here:
Yeah that is what he said. This is when Safety Scores were admitted:
Safety Score
Anyway back to that data, it is from 2022. So anyway there was some primitive camera monitoring for this data set (can’t remember the exact evolution but it used to be really lax). It is much much better now.
They finally released some new data recently, which is even less useful now that freeway and city streets miles are all smashed together with single stack.
We really cannot assess safety level relative to not using FSD Beta, due to selection biases. I think the updated excellent and rigorous attention monitoring may well push safety levels (as measured) a bit higher. But this is purely speculative. And then another question is - you are comparing FSD beta with attention monitoring to increasingly distracted drivers not using FSD. Is this what you want?
Thinking….Does having FSD increase the chances of a driver using a phone when not using FSD, because they are used to being able to do so when using FSD? (It is still quite easy to use a phone without nagging when using FSD.)
How would one capture that effect?
Seems to me it would be better to make sure accidents don’t happen when the driver is not paying attention. They seem more likely in that case. (Has been an argument of
@verygreen for years as I recall.) Maybe some day!
I always hoped that buying FSD would at some point help prevent accidents when it was not engaged. My main reason for buying it, in fact (I had HW2.5 so the upgrade was critical)! Unfortunately seems not to be the strategy being followed so far.
It would be great to have an “Active Background Safety Fully Engaged” category in these safety metrics. It could (and should) include attention monitoring at all times. As a critical autonomous safety feature, of course this would be rolled to all customers, even if they don’t have FSD, as Elon has
said.
I feel like if/when v12 is good enough they should just roll it out in the background and run it all the time for all customers even those who didn’t buy it. I’m probably ok with very sudden stops in that case.
Teslas would lap the field when it came to safety! Imagine expanding the critical reduction in accident rate to the entire HW3/4 fleet!
I guess that is when we will know it is safer?