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Musk Has a Plan to End the Autopilot Safety Debate
Tesla is opening up its data files, and it could forever change how drivers perceive safety.
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Lost in Elon Musk’s circus of an earnings call on Wednesday was an important Autopilot development that could alter the course of self-driving cars.
In a first for any carmaker, Tesla Inc. will soon begin reporting its Autopilot crash statistics publicly—and update it every quarter. This could change the way people perceive automated driving systems and serve as a model for other companies as the world embarks on its grand experiment with self-driving cars.
The value of Tesla’s new metric, however, will depend entirely on how the data are provided.