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Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans (gizmodo.com)
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Self-driving cars are often marketed as safer than human drivers, but new data suggests that may not always be the case.

Citing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Electrek reports that Tesla disclosed five new crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin. The new data raises concerns about how safe Tesla’s systems really are compared to the average driver.

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.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The AI companies put out a presser a few years back that said "Um, aktuly, its the humans who are bad drivers" and everyone ate that shit up with a spoon.

So now you've got Waymos blowing through red lights and getting stuck on train tracks, because "fuck you fuck you stop fighting the innovation we're creatively disruptive we do what we want".

[–] village604@adultswim.fan -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That doesn't mean that waymo is more error prone than human drivers.

Humans are awful at driving and do stuff like stop on train tracks and blow through red lights all the time.

Edit: I'm still waiting on someone to prove me wrong with actual data, because this article is about Tesla, not Waymo.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The article is about Robotaxis crashing 4x as much as human driven cars.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Meanwhile, Waymo has logged over 127 million fully driverless miles, with no safety driver, no monitor, no chase car, and independent research shows Waymo reduces injury-causing crashes by 80% and serious-injury crashes by 91% compared to human drivers. Waymo reports 51 incidents in Austin alone in this same NHTSA database, but its fleet has driven orders of magnitude more miles in the city than Tesla’s supervised “robotaxis.”

Point me to where Waymo taxis are just as bad as Tesla.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And what manufacturer is the article about? Is it waymo?