Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

zamadatix an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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And they are making them without steering wheels now! There's a saying about that I'm sure.

simondotau an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

1970-01-01 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Citing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Electrek reports.

briandw an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How many of you have run into a bollard or other fixed structure at less than 5 mph and didn't report it?

	▲	throwaway5465 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't weigh 3 tons.

“A crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped”

Hmmmm.

This guy must have a huge short position

	▲	hn_throwaway_99 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And you must have a long position if you're going to cherry pick so egregiously. The other incidents from that same paragraph that you conveniently left out: * a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour * a crash with a truck at four miles per hour * two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds. So in the 5 cases listed in that paragraph, 3 of them were when a Tesla hit a stationary object. Hitting a stationary object should be like the last thing I would think an autonomous vehicle would have trouble with, but if you got rid of lidar and radar because Elon had a fever dream, maybe it's not so unexpected.
	▲	decimalenough an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That phrasing gave me a chuckle as well. Nevertheless, the accidents per miles driven stats don't assign blame: Tesla is now "experiencing" a crash every 57,000 mi, vs the US statistical human driver average of 229,000 miles and Waymo's claimed ~500,000 mi per "incident". https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
	▲	stahtops an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Fascinating to cherry pick while trying to color an article as biased. Couldn’t even include an entire sentence? “The incidents included a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour, a crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped, a crash with a truck at four miles per hour, and two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.”