▲ 205 ▼ Tesla Robotaxi Mows Down Bollards & Keeps Driving, After “Impeccable” Record Touted on Stock Call (fuelarc.com) submitted 1 month ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world 51 comments fedilink hide all child comments Take a look at this. A Tesla Robotaxi in Austin pauses, seems to reconsider a right-hand turn through some bollards, and then decides: "I’m just gonna send it."
[–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (7 children) Regular taxis kill a lot more people permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (4 children) Robotaxis have three times the accident rate of human drivers. https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago Remove Teslas from that and now what are the stats? As usual, anything Musk touches turns to shit, including self-driving cars. permalink fedilink source parent [–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 point 4 weeks ago That's just Tesla, and that's because musk is a moron and forced them to go optical sensors only. Waymo, on the other hand, is significantly safer than humans. Although that is a pretty low bar to clear since humans are awful at driving. permalink fedilink source parent [–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 child) For comparison, human drivers in the United States average approximately one police-reported crash every 500,000 miles, according to NHTSA data. Police reported In training data, way higher. Also, notice I said they kill fewer people. So far that's true permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* Waymos got 220 million miles and 0 deaths so far. They'd be close to 3 by now going by human averages. I dont know far they'll make it, but you know whenever it does happen, there will be a huge uproar. permalink fedilink source parent [–] assertnull@programming.dev 1 point 1 month ago (1 child) I’d be curious to see this quantified, and whether “more” takes into consideration that regular taxis far outnumber Robotaxis permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago Its been done a couple dozen times, always compared on a per-mile basis. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (4 children) Robotaxis have three times the accident rate of human drivers. https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago Remove Teslas from that and now what are the stats? As usual, anything Musk touches turns to shit, including self-driving cars. permalink fedilink source parent [–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 point 4 weeks ago That's just Tesla, and that's because musk is a moron and forced them to go optical sensors only. Waymo, on the other hand, is significantly safer than humans. Although that is a pretty low bar to clear since humans are awful at driving. permalink fedilink source parent [–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 child) For comparison, human drivers in the United States average approximately one police-reported crash every 500,000 miles, according to NHTSA data. Police reported In training data, way higher. Also, notice I said they kill fewer people. So far that's true permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* Waymos got 220 million miles and 0 deaths so far. They'd be close to 3 by now going by human averages. I dont know far they'll make it, but you know whenever it does happen, there will be a huge uproar. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago Remove Teslas from that and now what are the stats? As usual, anything Musk touches turns to shit, including self-driving cars. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 point 4 weeks ago That's just Tesla, and that's because musk is a moron and forced them to go optical sensors only. Waymo, on the other hand, is significantly safer than humans. Although that is a pretty low bar to clear since humans are awful at driving. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 child) For comparison, human drivers in the United States average approximately one police-reported crash every 500,000 miles, according to NHTSA data. Police reported In training data, way higher. Also, notice I said they kill fewer people. So far that's true permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* Waymos got 220 million miles and 0 deaths so far. They'd be close to 3 by now going by human averages. I dont know far they'll make it, but you know whenever it does happen, there will be a huge uproar. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* Waymos got 220 million miles and 0 deaths so far. They'd be close to 3 by now going by human averages. I dont know far they'll make it, but you know whenever it does happen, there will be a huge uproar. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] assertnull@programming.dev 1 point 1 month ago (1 child) I’d be curious to see this quantified, and whether “more” takes into consideration that regular taxis far outnumber Robotaxis permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago Its been done a couple dozen times, always compared on a per-mile basis. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago Its been done a couple dozen times, always compared on a per-mile basis. permalink fedilink source parent