My wife once read “Tesla self-driving” and “accident” in the same sentence. That’s all it took.
Meanwhile her daughter loves Waymo. Her friends use it when they’re in San Francisco. So she got in — no driver, no hesitation.
In life, in love, in politics, and in marketing — the facts never matter. What people feel is shaped almost entirely by who else is doing it.
Here’s what the facts actually say: Tesla’s lane-keeping feature logs one crash per 7.44 million miles, compared to the national average of one crash per 702,000 miles. It is statistically one of the safest features in any car on the road today. The accidents she remembers involved Full Self-Driving — a completely different system.
