The incidents bring the robotaxi service to a total of 14 crashes since launching last summer.

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.

  • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    The article is about Robotaxis crashing 4x as much as human driven cars.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Meanwhile, Waymo has logged over 127 million fully driverless miles, with no safety driver, no monitor, no chase car, and independent research shows Waymo reduces injury-causing crashes by 80% and serious-injury crashes by 91% compared to human drivers. Waymo reports 51 incidents in Austin alone in this same NHTSA database, but its fleet has driven orders of magnitude more miles in the city than Tesla’s supervised “robotaxis.”

      Point me to where Waymo taxis are just as bad as Tesla.