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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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[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Nah, that one's on Elon just being a stubborn bitch and thinking he knows better than everybody else (as usual).

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (19 children)

He's right in that if current AI models were genuinely intelligent in the way humans are then cameras would be enough to achieve at least human level driving skills. The problem of course is that AI models are not nearly at that level yet

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also the Human brain is still on par with some of the worlds best supercomputers, I doubt a Tesla has that much onboard processing power.

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good point. Though I’ve heard some of these self driving cars connect remotely to a person to help drive when the AI doesnt know what to do, so I guess it's conceivable that the car could connect to the cloud. That would be super error prone though. Connectivity issues could brick your car.

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