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

45 points by tempestn 8mo ago

testing22321 8mo ago
“A crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped” Hmmmm. This guy must have a huge short position
- stahtops 8mo 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 8mo 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/ https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
  - simondotau 8mo ago
    There are no reliable statistics on how often human drivers bump into static objects at 1 mph, but I am quite certain it's more often than every 229,000 miles.
- hn_throwaway_99 8mo 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.
  - testing22321 8mo ago
    I get it, there’s been a ton of crashes and it’s BAD. The article would carry more weight if it didn’t throw in a bus hitting a stationary Tesla.
briandw 8mo 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 8mo ago
  I don't weigh 3 tons.
1970-01-01 8mo 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-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/ https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...
zamadatix 8mo ago
Already active discussion in the following posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051559 (6 hours ago - 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 (6 hours ago - 216 comments)
simondotau 8mo ago
@dang Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546
throwaway81523 8mo 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-wheel-less-cybercab-unit-off-the-line-before-solving-autonomy/ https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-rolls-first-steering-wh...

45 points by tempestn 8mo ago

testing22321 8mo ago

“A crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped” Hmmmm. This guy must have a huge short position

stahtops 8mo 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 8mo 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/ https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
- simondotau 8mo ago
  There are no reliable statistics on how often human drivers bump into static objects at 1 mph, but I am quite certain it's more often than every 229,000 miles.
hn_throwaway_99 8mo 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.
- testing22321 8mo ago
  I get it, there’s been a ton of crashes and it’s BAD. The article would carry more weight if it didn’t throw in a bus hitting a stationary Tesla.

briandw 8mo 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 8mo ago
I don't weigh 3 tons.

1970-01-01 8mo 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-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/ https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...

zamadatix 8mo ago

Already active discussion in the following posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051559 (6 hours ago - 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 (6 hours ago - 216 comments)

simondotau 8mo ago

@dang Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546

throwaway81523 8mo 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-wheel-less-cybercab-unit-off-the-line-before-solving-autonomy/ https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-rolls-first-steering-wh...