Reuters Says Flawed Math Boosted Tesla Full Self-Driving Safety Claims

Reuters says flawed math boosted Tesla Full Self-Driving safety claims

Tesla's long-running claim that its Full Self-Driving technology is much safer than a human driver is facing fresh scrutiny after a Reuters investigation found flaws in the math behind those talking points. According to Electrek, several workers who helped train the system said they would not trust it to drive them. Reuters found Tesla's oft-repeated assertion that FSD can be as much as 10 times safer than human drivers rested on an apples-to-or…

Tesla Full Self Driving: 10 Safety Claims and a New Trust Problem

Former Tesla staffers say the company’s Full Self Driving system still stumbles on basic road hazards. The same week Tesla pushed robotaxi ambitions in California and Texas, the trust gap got much wider. Why this Tesla trust problem hits harder now I keep coming back to the same detail: the people feeding Tesla’s autonomy machine do not sound convinced by it. Reuters spoke with former data labelers and an ex-self-driving engineer who described f…