The dangers of Tesla's overstated safety claims

Elon Musk has little patience for people who question the safety of Tesla Motors' technologies.

The CEO insists that Tesla's Autopilot software and newly unveiled self-driving hardware will make its electric vehicles remarkably safer than conventional cars. Musk bristles during press calls at the mention of Autopilot-related accidents or broader anxieties about abdicating the wheel to a computer.

Yet Musk might be undermining his own safety claims by glossing over the cars' vulnerabilities and branding the vehicles as more advanced than they really are, transportation experts told Mashable.