There is a phrase that is often attributed to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and it goes: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics". This phrase perfectly describes how Elon Musk talks about the safety of full self-driving.

Basically, he stated that according to their statistics self-driving crashes way less than when a human is controlling a vehicle. Thus, everybody should use self-driving because it is simply safer.

Let’s assume that statistics is correct. In this case, it sounds like good news for self-driving and everybody should use it, right? Absolutely not, because it is just a different form of lies. Let me explain what I mean.

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