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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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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

a crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped

Uuh...wouldn't that be the fault of the bus? I mean, the system is faulty as fuck so there's really no need to mix in shit like this, it reduces legitimacy of the otherwise very valid criticism.

[–] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That depends entirely where the Tesla stopped, and under what conditions.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm betting it stopped in the path of it. Either by pulling out in front of it, or sitting on the inside of the truck whilst turning.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, not really though. Generally if your car is stopped, even in the middle of the road, you are not at fault if someone else hits you. You can still get fined for obstruction of traffic, but the incident is entirely the fault of the moving vehicle.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you stop in the middle of a highway you absolutely are at fault.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

Tesla robotaxis don't go anywhere near highways currently.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 4 points 16 hours ago

Entirely possible, but all incidents are counted as it would probably be difficult to produce reliable stats where you're leaving out some based on some kind of an assessment of blame.

Because Tesla hides most of the details unlike the competition we can't really look at a specific one and know.