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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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[-] hector@lemmy.today 0 points 18 hours ago

I seem to recall a homeless woman that got killed like right away when they released these monstrosities on the road, because why pay people to do jobs when machines can do them for you? I'm sure that will work out for everyone, with investment income.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

That was Uber's attempt at self driving after they had to give up the stolen Waymo data. Waymo is probably the best at self driving, but even they spend too much time blocking traffic when they can't reach the Indian call center to fix the situation they've gotten themselves in.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago

Backed up by AI, Actually Indians.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago
[-] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

Unless you found the video I will trust my memory.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

The video of the thing that didn't happen?

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