> However, there have been a few high profile accidents recently with emergency vehicles
Interestingly even that's a bit spun. There was one recent accident, in August. And the NTSB going back discovered that there's a cluster of (I think) 11 others where the car behaved similarly and appeared to strike an undetected emergency vehicle without trying to avoid.
Now... that's interesting, and potentially represents a bug worth fixing. But it was also rapidly pointed out that (1) this is an extremely common kind of accident (human drivers hit these things all the time too) and (2) given the number of reported Tesla AP miles driven and assuming no other unreported collisions cases, Autopilot is actually about twice as safe as the average US driver vs. stopped emergency vehicles.
Interestingly even that's a bit spun. There was one recent accident, in August. And the NTSB going back discovered that there's a cluster of (I think) 11 others where the car behaved similarly and appeared to strike an undetected emergency vehicle without trying to avoid.
Now... that's interesting, and potentially represents a bug worth fixing. But it was also rapidly pointed out that (1) this is an extremely common kind of accident (human drivers hit these things all the time too) and (2) given the number of reported Tesla AP miles driven and assuming no other unreported collisions cases, Autopilot is actually about twice as safe as the average US driver vs. stopped emergency vehicles.