, you have said repeatedly that GM's Supercruise will be better than Autopilot when it is released.
But GM concealed a faulty ignition switch for over 10 years, resulting in an estimated 124 deaths, possibly more.
Since GM hid defects leading to at least 124 deaths, by your logic in this thread one should never "TRUST" GM. Yet you somehow manage to "promise" that GM's Supercruise system, when it is finally released, is going to be better than Autopilot,
Quantifying fatalities
The faulty ignitions have been linked (by GM itself) to 124 deaths.
[3] GM originally only linked the failures to 13 deaths and 31 crashes.
[12] The company only counted incidents which resulted in head-on collisions in which the airbags did not deploy. It did not include, for example, an incident where after a car's ignition switch failed, the car "spun out, hydroplaned, hit an oncoming vehicle and rolled off the road, dropping 15 feet into a creek".
[13] In a collision in which two young women in a Chevrolet Cobalt were killed when the ignition switch shut off the engine, GM only counted the death of the woman in the front seat, because the death of the woman in the back seat was not caused by the failure of the airbag to deploy.
[14] Most of the victims were under age 25.
[15] On June 3, 2014,
Reuters published an analysis concluding that the faulty switches were responsible for 74 deaths, based on
Fatality Analysis Reporting System data. General Motors disputed its conclusion, and stood by their original figure of 13 deaths after the report was released as of June 3, 2014.
[16]By the end of September, Reuters stated in an article that 153 deaths were linked to the faulty ignition switch.
[17] As of March 2015, GM had offered compensation for 11 Category One injuries, along with 115 Category Two injuries.
[18] In April 2015, GM officially noted that the death toll was believed to have reached 87, higher than the previous number of 74 they reported in March 2015.
[19] Upon its completion, the compensation fund established by GM had offered compensation for 124 deaths, nearly 10 times more than the 13 deaths GM executives reported in April 2014.
[3][20] However, the true number of deaths resulting from the ignition switch is likely higher as GM's compensation fund rejected more than 90% of claims and it did not include claims that are part of the ongoing
Multidistrict Litigation.
[21][3] General Motors ignition switch recalls - Wikipedia
Anyone who wants to make a rational judgment on whether to trust the safety of Tesla's Autopilot need look no further than Tesla vehicles' outstanding safety record -- most recently Model X was rated the safest SUV ever tested by the NHTSA -- as well as the NHTSA's finding that there was a 40% reduction in airbag inducing accidents after AP1 was activated. I expect comparable or better numbers from AP2, with the safety benefits continuing to increase as time goes on and the Full-Self Driving system is activated.
Move Over Tesla. Here Comes Cadillac.
