But thats not the full story.
Accidents are more common on city roads and undivided roads.
NHTSA data also accounts for incidents including all vehicles, including trucks, buses, and older car models.
Tesla first launched its Autopilot driver assistance technology in 2014.Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)
Its not a clean comparison.
In 2016, multiple people would die in incidents related to Autopilot, includingJoshua Brown of Canton, Ohio.
The crash was the first Autopilot-related death in the U.S. and would lead to updates to the software.
Several crashes would occur in the future, some of which led to lawsuits.
Last October, Teslawon its first U.S. jury trialover a fatal Autopilot crash.
Autopilot has been linked tomore than 200 crashes and 29 deaths, according to the NHTSA.
The agency has opened more than 50 special crash investigations into Tesla vehicles thought to be linked to Autopilot.
Even as the NHTSA closed a years-long inquiry into the technology last month, itopened another.
The NHTSA said it had identified concerns with the Autopilot software fix issued to those vehicles.
Tesla has been given aJuly 1 deadlineto respond to questions posed by the NHTSA regarding the recall.
Teslas also faced charges around misleading communications.
This article originally appeared onQuartz.
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