The safety of Tesla’s vehicles has largely been heralded, especially with Autopilot engaged, despite some properly guided concerns over electric vehicle (EV) battery fires.
Still, Tesla’s cars are incredibly safe, and Tesla has recently released its Q4 2020 vehicle safety report. Perhaps unsurprisingly, its crash rates are still much lower with Autopilot engaged.
In the report, Tesla says it registered one accident for every 3.45 million miles driven with Autopilot engaged. This is compared with Q3 2020, having registered one accident for every 4.59 million miles driven with Autopilot engaged.
For drivers without Autopilot, but still using Tesla’s other safety features, the company logged one accident in every 2.05 million miles driven in Q4 2020, compared to one accident in every 2.42 million miles driven in the previous quarter.
With no safety features active at all, Tesla reported one accident in every 1.27 million miles driven, compared with one in every 1.79 million miles driven in 2020’s Q3.
All in all, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released Q4 2020 data saying that there’s an auto crash on average for every 484,000 miles driven. This illustrates the stark difference between the rate of an average car accident, compared to the rate of an accident in a Tesla – especially with Autopilot engaged.
The best crash is no crash — with Autopilot enabled, you are 7x less likely to be involved in an accident.
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— Tesla (@Tesla) January 14, 2021
Yesterday, Tesla detailed its 5-star rating from the NHSTA for the Model Y, noting the EV has the lowest rollover rate of any SUV recorded to date by the U.S. organization.
