[klvino]

Thank you for linking to all of the data. Consumers have different priorities than society when it comes to these systems, "convenience" vs "safety" respectively.

If these systems are not improving safety above baseline (rate of accidents for non-assisted driving) it would be interesting to find out how this difference appears with each system's level of assistance. Then within those levels, are there certain platforms which pull the numbers in different directions (e.g is a Tesla more or less safe than other DAS of the same level).

If these systems are not resulting in a reduction of accidents, should we rethink what kind of 'driver assistance' should systems provide? If higher level systems are less safe, should the industry hold off on pushing those systems to market until they're developed further? If a specific platform is a significant source for the reported accidents, then what action should be taken to address? (disable those specific DAS already in market?)

[cs702]

Great questions. I don't think anyone has good (defensible) answers for them yet. This new effort by the NHTSA to compare ADAS and DAS systems apples-to-apples, in combination with more traditional efforts to collect overall data per mile driven (for both machine and human drivers), should eventually give us the answers :-)