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.
Darwin just getting ever more creative over time.
Optical recognition is inferior and this is not surprising.
Yeah that’s well known by now. However, safety through additional radar sensors costs money and they can’t have that.
just one more AI model, please, that’ll do it, just one more, just you wait, have you seen how fast things are improving? Just one more. Common, just one more…
Who insures these things?
Tesla
I mean, people are dying. Including the people who didn’t pay for it. So, kind of a bigger deal than that.
How often are they just bursting into flames for no reason?
4x as often as a human I’d expect
I didn’t realise spontaneous human combustion was still so prevalent!
It happens all the time. Especially to drummers.
Spontaneous human combustion only occurs if the human is also carrying a Galaxy Note 7 LOL
