EVNow
Well-Known Member
Disengagement rate is a very useful metric. The metric has nothing to do with geofencing.Disengagement rate is a useless metric for a non-geofenced car and I don't know why people keep using this as a way to compare autonomous vehicles. There are routes FSDb will have a disengagement 100% of the time within 100 ft and there are routes you can drive for 1000 miles and not have any disengagements.
It is very simple - when FSDb does something wrong - I disengage (or have to intervene). If left to itself, the car might get into an accident. So the disengagement rate is a proxy for miles per errors a.k.a. accident rate. Accident rates determine when an AV is ready for true driverless operation ... needs to be atleast a few thousand miles per intervention.
Ofcourse it would be best if Tesla published the numbers after actually sorting thorugh all the disengagements and interventions to figure out what would have actually caused an accident, what are just inconveniences or downright embarrassments for Tesla on the road. But they probably get millions of that per day and they can't actually analyze all the data manually. Anyway, they won't publish the data because miles/disenagement is so pathetically low and the media will laugh at them.
That is also the reason you are trying to completely discount the most important metric - because it suits your narrative. Not because it is actually not useful.
This is like saying why Gross Margin or EPS is actually not useful.