Elon Musk’s automatic driving technology seems to be roughly an order of magnitude more deadly than human drivers.
Now we learn from an analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data conducted by The Washington Post that those systems, particularly FSD, are associated with dramatically more crashes than previously thought. Thanks to a 2021 regulation, automakers must disclose data about crashes involving self-driving or driver assistance technology. Since that time, Tesla has racked up at least 736 such crashes, causing 17 fatalities.
This article could have been called “When The Marketing Department Overrides Engineering”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63100636
Tesla boss Elon Musk presents humanoid robot Optimus
Anybody want to try Full Self Driving on musk’s first sexbot?
There’s an Archive.org mirror of the Washington Post article this is based on which has no login wall.
Choice quote:
Former NHTSA senior safety adviser Missy Cummings… said the surge in Tesla crashes is troubling.
“Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set,” she said in response to the figures analyzed by The Post.
And this guy wants to put circuitry in your brain
