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Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-robotaxis-reportedly-crashing-at-a-rate-thats-4x-higher-than-humans-2000722989
39•tempestn•1h ago

Comments

testing22321•1h ago
“A crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped”

Hmmmm.

This guy must have a huge short position

stahtops•1h ago
Fascinating to cherry pick while trying to color an article as biased. Couldn’t even include an entire sentence?

“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.”

decimalenough•1h ago
That phrasing gave me a chuckle as well. Nevertheless, the accidents per miles driven stats don't assign blame: Tesla is now "experiencing" a crash every 57,000 mi, vs the US statistical human driver average of 229,000 miles and Waymo's claimed ~500,000 mi per "incident".

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

hn_throwaway_99•1h ago
And you must have a long position if you're going to cherry pick so egregiously. The other incidents from that same paragraph that you conveniently left out:

* a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour

* a crash with a truck at four miles per hour

* two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.

So in the 5 cases listed in that paragraph, 3 of them were when a Tesla hit a stationary object. Hitting a stationary object should be like the last thing I would think an autonomous vehicle would have trouble with, but if you got rid of lidar and radar because Elon had a fever dream, maybe it's not so unexpected.

briandw•1h ago
How many of you have run into a bollard or other fixed structure at less than 5 mph and didn't report it?
throwaway5465•57m ago
I don't weigh 3 tons.
1970-01-01•1h ago
>Citing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Electrek reports.

Round and round we go. The original story: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...

zamadatix•1h ago
Already active discussion in the following posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051559 (6 hours ago - 14 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 (6 hours ago - 216 comments)

simondotau•1h ago
@dang Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546
throwaway81523•48m ago
And they are making them without steering wheels now! There's a saying about that I'm sure.

https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-rolls-first-steering-wh...

Tidal Heating of Io

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