A small research and consulting firm called Quality Control Systems has produced a devastating critique of a 2017 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report finding that Tesla’s Autopilot reduced crashes by 40 percent.
The new analysis is coming out now—almost two years after the original report—because QCS had to sue NHTSA under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the data underlying the agency’s findings. In its report, QCS highlights flaws in NHTSA’s methodology that are serious enough to completely discredit the 40 percent figure, which Tesla has cited multiple times over the last two years.
Read the article at Ars Technica.
