Tesla cites a statistic where their auto-drive cars have fewer accidents than human-driven cars, so their contention is that auto-drive cars are safer then human-driven cars.
While this may or may not be true, a huge percentage of the human-driven accidents. So it is probably more accurate to say that the Tesla system drives safer than you do when you’re drunk.
Oh, I agree autopilot is generally safer. Am looking forward to it for long freeway trips (no more boring 600 mile stretches). Unfortunately for him, it was still a legit DUI situation: he wasn’t ready to take over driving at a moment’s notice.