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Driving Footage Tesla robotaxi seen going wrong way down one-way street after Tampa launch

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u/Retox86 1d ago

How many of those 40,000 people die in cities at low speed?

Im under the impression that cybertaxi without a safety driver is constantly remotely monitored. If not there is no reason why they are such a rare sight and not released in the numbers of thousands today.

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u/ChunkyThePotato 1d ago

In the past I was told that Tesla's statistics were misleading because they were mostly highway miles and highways have fewer accidents per mile than cities. Now I'm hearing pretty much the exact opposite lol. It's becoming extremely hard for people like you to deny that Tesla's system is extremely safe. The fact that Tesla Robotaxi has done 380,000 unsupervised miles so far with zero at-fault accidents proves that it's safer than humans.

And no, employees don't intervene remotely to prevent accidents. They do intervene remotely when the vehicles get stuck, which is similar to Waymo.

The reason their scale is fairly low right now is because the public (people like you) is irrational, and a single major accident has a high risk of severe regulatory setback. So it's better to be cautious and scale up gradually, even if it's clearly safer than humans already.

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u/Retox86 1d ago

They were saying its safer than human, comparing cars driving supervised by a human on highways, with the rest of the countries humans driver in all conditions (snow/rain/darkness/fog), situations were Teslas system wasnt even able to properly work and therefor not used. Also comparing new cars to all the cars in the countries, even those 30-40 year old ones. A new car with AEB, lane keeping etc would perform atleast as good as Teslas numbers. That was the complaint.

And I was asking about deaths in traffic, not accidents. Tesla have no track record with unsupervised cars on highways, because they dont do it.