Self-driving cars crash, too, but figuring out what it means requires much better data

Web: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23169960/nhtsa-adas-av-crash-data-standardize

This week, for the first time ever, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on crashes involving cars equipped with advanced driver-assist systems and automated driving technology. A lot of headlines — including The Verge’s — focused on the number of Tesla vehicles that crashed, which is understandable because Tesla had a lot of crashes.

But the numbers themselves don’t tell us the whole story. In fact, they don’t really tell us much of …

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