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.

      • hector@lemmy.today
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        9 hours ago

        I think it needs to be acknowledged, Musk is mentally challenged, has mental illness, call it what you will, he has a diagnosable condition, and as such has been tooled by Peter Thiel. Perhaps blackmailed as well, alongside the carrots of going along. His faults aren’t solely because of the mental illness perhaps, but it’s a factor in why he does what he does, and how acts, made worse by his drug use.

        If he was an ordinary person he would be recognized as such, if not committed involuntarily at some point, but being filthy rich he’s just eccentric as far as the system is concerned. Just a fat out of shape slob throwing seig heils representing nazis that championed the idea of killing undesirables including fat out of shape slobs. But he gets a pass because he’s rich. Nazis also killed mentally ill people, just as a matter of course.

        Point being Musk would be eliminated by the Nazis he wants to resurrect and put in absolute power, that he was compelled to represent and put in power. He obviously didn’t appreciate whomever gave him that black eye, and I would guess it was thiel or yarvin or one of them, the actual brains behind doge and musk that are using him, that groomed those kids from sex and drug fueled parties, to secretly export all fed agency data to their secret data servers, under the guise of cutting costs.

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          7 hours ago

          Fuck off, a lot of people are mentally ill and aren’t psychopathic Nazi pedophiles because of it. He’s a shit person, and his mental illness has nothing to do with it.