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Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash

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Re: Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash

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Post by thomassmith65 » 

  With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly 
  once every 40,000 miles [...]. For comparison, the average human driver 
  in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles. 
  This means Tesla’s “autonomous” vehicle, which is supposed to be the future of safety, 
  is crashing 10x more often than a human driver.
That is a possible explanation for why Musk believes in people having 10x as many children. /s

Re: Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash

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Post by TheAmazingRace »

When you have a CEO like Elon who swears up and down that you only need cameras for autonomous driving vehicles, and skimping out on crucial extras like Li-DAR, can anyone be surprised by this result? Tesla also likes to take the motto of "move fast and break things" to a fault.

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Post by DoesntMatter22 »

TheAmazingRace wrote: post #4

When you have a CEO like Elon who swears up and down that you only need cameras for autonomous driving vehicles, and skimping out on crucial extras like Li-DAR, can anyone be surprised by this result? Tesla also likes to take the motto of "move fast and break things" to a fault.

Turns out Waymo hits a lot of things too. Why isn't Lidar stopping that?

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Post by mmooss »

DoesntMatter22 wrote: post #6
TheAmazingRace wrote: post #4

When you have a CEO like Elon who swears up and down that you only need cameras for autonomous driving vehicles, and skimping out on crucial extras like Li-DAR, can anyone be surprised by this result? Tesla also likes to take the motto of "move fast and break things" to a fault.

Turns out Waymo hits a lot of things too. Why isn't Lidar stopping that?

What is Waymo's accident rate? (Edit: Tesla's is in the article, at least for that region.)

Re: Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash

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Post by TheAmazingRace »

DoesntMatter22 wrote: post #6
TheAmazingRace wrote: post #4

When you have a CEO like Elon who swears up and down that you only need cameras for autonomous driving vehicles, and skimping out on crucial extras like Li-DAR, can anyone be surprised by this result? Tesla also likes to take the motto of "move fast and break things" to a fault.

Turns out Waymo hits a lot of things too. Why isn't Lidar stopping that?

Last I checked, Robotaxi has a safety driver, whereas Waymo is completely self driving, yet has a very good safety record. That speaks volumes to me.

https://waymo.com/safety/impact/

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