Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Can't Stop Crashing Into Things

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Say what you will astir Tesla, but it's bully astatine a batch of things. Take its robotaxi fleet successful Austin, Texas, for example. It's apparently very bully astatine crashing into things, contempt nan there's a existent ass quality supervisor wrong nan car making judge everything is copasetic.

The automaker reported 3 much crashes involving its fleet of self-driving Model Ys successful September, bringing nan full to 7 incidents successful conscionable a fewer short months, moreover though these cars are completing short trips and person done comparatively debased mileage, according to Electrek. Tesla has moreover moved nan aforementioned human supervisor from nan passenger's spot to nan driver's spot to support these sorts of things from happening, but it apparently hasn't worked.

Tesla reported nan 3 robotaxi crashes to nan National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The first occurred connected September 4 erstwhile a robotaxi backed into different vehicle, but nary 1 was injured. The adjacent happened successful nan early greeting hours of September 6, erstwhile a Model Y deed a cyclist. Luckily, nary 1 was hurt, but nan motorcycle was damaged. The last incident took spot connected September 7, erstwhile a Model Y struck immoderate benignant of animal. No humans were injured, but there's nary connection connected nan animal.

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Unfortunately, there's not excessively overmuch other that tin beryllium gleaned from these mishap reports. As Electrek points out, Tesla likes to maltreatment its correct to redact arsenic overmuch information arsenic imaginable successful these filings. Mainly, it redacts nan full "narrative" conception for each report, truthful we ne'er really cognize what happened aliases who is responsible. Instead, they each publication "[REDACTED, MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION]"

Who knows really galore crashes were prevented by nan in-car supervisors making judge nan cars didn't do thing excessively screwy? But, successful immoderate case, Tesla's existent robotaxi clang complaint is astir 2 times arsenic precocious arsenic Waymo's, according to Electrek. You will note, though, that each of these crashes took spot aft nan in-car supervisors were moved to nan driver's seat.

I don't really cognize wherever CEO Elon Musk aliases his robotaxis spell from here. They're very intelligibly not fresh for primetime successful immoderate meaningful way. Hell, most cities different than Austin aren't moreover letting Tesla sniff deployment because of nan whole, you know, information thing. Of course, Elon ever seems to get his way, truthful I'm judge personification will crook to his will aliases his fans will person themselves that a robotaxi pinch a feline down nan instrumentality is conscionable arsenic bully arsenic Waymo's setup.