Tesla has printed essentially the most detailed take a look at the efficiency and relative security of its superior driver-assistance software program, only a few weeks after Waymo’s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana at TechCrunch Disrupt referred to as on corporations to launch extra knowledge.

On a new part of its web site, Tesla claims that in North America, house owners utilizing the corporate’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software program are driving round 5 million miles earlier than a significant collision and round 1.5 million miles earlier than a minor collision.

That’s a far decrease price than the nationwide common primarily based on statistics supplied by the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA). That knowledge exhibits folks get in a significant collision each 699,000 miles, and a minor one each 229,000, at the least in response to Tesla’s interpretation.

Tesla has been releasing “automobile security experiences” on a quarter-by-quarter foundation for some time. However these experiences have been repeatedly panned for being inadequate. And Tesla has launched virtually no details about the security efficiency of the Robotaxi trial it’s been working in Austin, Texas, this 12 months, which nonetheless has staff within the driver’s seat monitoring for security causes.

Waymo, the main robotaxi firm within the U.S. in the mean time primarily based on automobiles deployed and clients served, has printed detailed knowledge exhibiting its automobiles are round 5x safer than human drivers, and 12x safer with respect to pedestrians. Ultimately month’s Disrupt convention, Mawakana was requested to call different corporations she felt have been making roads safer.

“I don’t know who’s on that record, as a result of they’re not telling us what’s taking place with their fleets,” stated Mawakana, with out naming Tesla.

“I feel there’s a duty, when you’re going to place automobiles on the highway, and also you’re going to take away the motive force from behind the wheel, and also you’re going to have somebody in another room observing the fleet who can take over their automobiles, it’s incumbent upon you to be clear about what’s taking place,” she added. “And in case you are not being clear, then it’s my view that you’re not doing what is important with the intention to really earn the precise to make the highway safer.”

Waymo didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Friday about whether or not Mawakana believes Tesla’s new knowledge is enough.

One of many repeated criticisms of Tesla’s quarterly security experiences is that it targeted on Autopilot, a far much less superior driver-assistance system than the Full Self Driving (Supervised) software program, or FSD — which, regardless of its identify, doesn’t make a automotive absolutely autonomous. Autopilot was designed for use on highways, which generally see a decrease price of crashes (when together with minor collisions).

Tesla has lastly damaged out all this knowledge. The brand new part of Tesla’s web site claims that drivers utilizing FSD journey about 2.9 million miles between main collisions, whereas NHTSA knowledge exhibits all drivers journey about 505,000 miles per main collision. Tesla claims FSD customers drive about 986,000 miles between minor collisions, whereas NHTSA knowledge exhibits all drivers journey round 178,000 miles per minor collision.

Tesla can also be lastly exhibiting the way it defines these phrases for the primary time.

The carmaker is utilizing the Federal Motor Car Security Requirements, particularly 49 C.F.R. § 563.5. Tesla defines “main collisions” as crashes with higher-severity impacts the place a automobile’s airbags “or different non-reversible pyrotechnic restraints” are deployed. The corporate additionally says that if FSD was energetic “at any level inside 5 seconds main as much as a collision occasion,” then it contains that crash on this dataset.

“This calculation ensures that our reported collision charges for FSD (Supervised) seize not solely collisions that happen whereas the system is actively controlling the automobile, but in addition eventualities the place a driver might disengage the system or the place the system aborts by itself shortly earlier than influence,” Tesla says.

In its FAQ part, Tesla states that it’ll replace the info each quarter and that it’ll “mirror a rolling twelve-month aggregation of miles and collisions in an effort to stay related to current tendencies and progress.” The corporate says it gained’t launch different info, like harm charges, as a result of it’s gathering this knowledge mechanically from the automobiles.

“As a substitute, Tesla focuses on goal and programmatic metrics akin to collision frequency and airbag deployment charges. Airbag deployments function a dependable proxy for collision severity,” the corporate writes.