Brand New MIT Study Confirms Tesla’s Autopilot As Unsafe

When MIT turns its back on Elon Musk and calls Tesla unsafe, maybe its time to start re-thinking exactly how technologically profound Musk and his company truly are.

A new study out of MIT has “confirmed how unsafe” Tesla’s Autopilot feature actually is, according to analysis from Screenshot Media and a study called “A model for naturalistic glance behavior around Tesla Autopilot disengagements”.

The study reveals, in not so many words, that Full Self Driving is not as safe as it claims. It followed Tesla Model S and X owners “during their daily routine for periods of a year or more” and found that drivers become inattentive when using partially automated driving systems.

The study itself concluded: “Visual behavior patterns change before and after [Autopilot] disengagement. Before disengagement, drivers looked less on road and focused more on non-driving related areas compared to after the transition to manual driving. The higher proportion of off-road glances before disengagement to manual driving were not compensated by longer glances ahead.”

TechCrunch wrote about the study: “The researchers found this type of behavior may be the result of misunderstanding what the [autopilot] feature can do and what its limitations are, which is reinforced when it performs well. Drivers whose tasks are automated for them may naturally become bored after attempting to sustain visual and physical alertness, which researchers say only creates further inattentiveness.” – READ MORE