Elon Musk owns Ensure what he calls the work of the Ministry of Government Efficiency or Dogewill be “the greatest transparency”. Dorje’s website It’s proof, Tesla and SpaceX The CEO and now White House adviser have repeatedly said. There, the group kept a list of cuts to grants and budgets, which is a statistics of its work.
But in recent weeks The New York Times Doge not only posts major errors on the website – for example, The cancelled contract is $8 million And it has paid $2.5 million, but after the fact, efforts have also been made to get these mistakes stuck, removing details about Doge cutting from the website and even removing details from its code, which makes it easy for the public to verify and track.
For road safety researchers who have been paying attention to Musk for many years, the method of committing the crime is familiar. Doge “take out some numbers, they smell bad, they turn around.” Noah GoodallIndependent Transport Researcher. “That screaming Tesla. You’ll feel they’re not really interested in the facts.”
Goodall and others have been following Tesla’s autopilot and full autopilot capabilities for nearly a decade, with advanced driver assistance systems designed to make driving less stressful and safer. Researchers claim that Tesla has released security statistics without proper context over the years. Promotes numbers that are impossible to verify by external experts; touting favorable security statistics that have been proven misleading; and even altering the published security statistics. These numbers are so contradictory Performance data itself.
Rather than publishing public data, “What we have are these small pieces that seem really suspicious when researchers study them in context,” said Bryant Walker Smith, law professor and engineer who studies self-driving cars at the University of South Carolina.
Government assisted hoopsie
Tesla’s first and most public digital mix Appeared in 2018after it published safety data for its first autopilot First known death of a driver using Autopilot. The researchers immediately pointed out that although these numbers seem to indicate that drivers using autopilot are much less likely to crash than other Americans on the road. These numbers lack a key background.
At the time, Autopilot incorporated adaptive cruise control, which maintained a fixed distance between Tesla and the vehicle in front of the vehicle and assisted in the direction of the vehicle in front of it, which kept the car as a centered lane marker. However, comparisons don’t control the type of car (the luxury car, the only Tesla at the time, is less likely to collapse than others), the people driving the car (Tesla owners are more likely to be wealthy and age groups and therefore less likely to collapse), or on the road to Teslas, especially at Tesla (Autopilo) The route of t) (automatic action) (automatic action) (automatic driving method) (in the way of autonomous driving), encounters the route within the country, and travels within the country, and encounters the route within the country, and encounters the route within the country, and encounters the route within the country, but encounters the route within the country, and encounters the route within the country, but encounters the situation outside the country. ).
The chaos didn’t stop there. In response to the fatal crash of autonomous driving, Tesla Have done it Hand over some safety numbers to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the U.S. road safety regulator. Using these numbers, NHTSA A report was released It shows that autopilot has resulted in a 40% reduction in crashes. Tesla promotes favorable statistics, Even when to quoteIn 2018, another person died while using autonomous driving.
