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Three crashes in the first day? Tesla’s robotaxi test in Austin | Tesla's crash rate is orders of magnitude worse than Waymo's.

chrisdh79 | 2025-09-22 20:29 | 588 views

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[deleted] 2025-09-22 20:50

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Bagafeet 2025-09-22 21:01

No one saw that coming 🤭

Bagafeet 2025-09-22 21:02

Security guy can only stop the car. That's not enough to avoid some crashes.

CouncilmanRickPrime 2025-09-22 21:29

Initially they were in the front passenger seat lol kinda hard to prevent an accident from there, even with a stupid button to stop the car.

[deleted] 2025-09-22 21:38

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y4udothistome 2025-09-22 21:59

You think the news would be all over this instead he just launched in Arizona six cars covering the whole 133,000 mi.²

DamNamesTaken11 2025-09-22 22:05

No wonder they’re fighting so hard to suppress this and moved the safety monitor from the front passenger to the driver seat. Someone’s going to get killed by one of these soon.

foo-bar-25 2025-09-22 23:21

L I D A R

analyticaljoe 2025-09-23 00:12

Certainly not the robotaxi.

Gildardo1583 2025-09-23 00:20

Hahaha

[deleted] 2025-09-23 00:22

Wow, who could’ve seen this coming? Other than thousands of people who’ve seen how “full self driving” actually works.

[deleted] 2025-09-23 00:23

Louder for the fascist CEOs in the back!

dead_ed 2025-09-23 02:03

I've only seen security guys in the passenger seat. I think that's changed since the rollout but I've not seen it.

Lacrewpandora 2025-09-23 02:13

Exponential Growth!

[deleted] 2025-09-23 02:57

Explosive sht.

QuintaEtapa 2025-09-23 05:58

The sheer stupidity of the whole thing is ridiculous. A “driverless” taxi. But with a person in the driver’s seat. Stock goes up.

SolutionWarm6576 2025-09-23 10:17

Bullish!!!. The most advanced AI and Robotics company in the world. Dan Ives, Cathie Wood, Ben Kallo all of CNBC, etc. etc.

Doublestack00 2025-09-23 10:22

No one is shocked.

_Captain_Amazing_ 2025-09-23 10:38

If you've ever driven in a Waymo and also with FSD in a Tesla, this is obvious to you. Tesla's FSD is amateur hour and Waymo is pro league.

codykonior 2025-09-23 11:31

Redacted.

TheBlackUnicorn 2025-09-23 12:16

> They've been flagrantly redacting all details when it was just L-2 ADAS and more of the same now. It is, in fact, still just L2 ADAS. And actually the "Robotaxi" has fewer features than most L2 ADAS cars you can buy since it doesn't have radar.

mishap1 2025-09-23 12:27

In Austin, they're now required to be on the driver's side if the car is going on highways. Apparently, they know to switch over as needed. Other markets, they've had to be in the driver's seat.

Grunge4U 2025-09-23 14:02

Whatever is going on with Tesla stock value has to be something seriously corrupt. Tesla has failed on every promise Musk has made and there is no reason it will be a leader in AI or Robotics any more than a rational person would think they'll be a leader in autonomous driving. People can be really stupid but not this stupid. When things don't add up you're missing part of the equation, some entity is propping up this stock, we just don't know the details.

aft3rthought 2025-09-23 14:18

Imagine if the car pulled out into an intersection in the path of an oncoming car, and then slowed down. All the passenger seat guy can do in under 3 seconds is make the car stop harder - they will definitely have a crash at point.

[deleted] 2025-09-23 15:30

Car with camera vs car with F35 sensor array... No idea how this is rarely discussed. Either Waymo has 10x the sensors or Tesla is just right. Maybe you just need half what Waymo uses so Tesla still way short.

Boring-Cod-5569 2025-09-23 19:23

Stopping an accident is easy- all they have to do is make a quick call to tech support and let the agent know of the specific issue and provide any relevant artifacts. Once that has been reviewed the car can be stopped remotely. /s

UrBoySergio 2025-09-23 20:35

The saudis come to mind

Grunge4U 2025-09-23 21:03

I think it's very likely multiple entities the way this administration has been billionaires against humanity. Kind of like the pentaverate but without the Colonel with his wee beady eyes. if you get the reference, we can be friends.

Icy-person666 2025-09-23 22:47

Or retroactively delete the data and blame the passinger for not holding the steering wheel.

Boring-Cod-5569 2025-09-23 23:18

Well obviously they had a full 2 seconds to intervene!

Fitdoc50 2025-09-24 02:51

I love how they used Elons favorite phrase, “orders of magnitude “ against him.

suboptiml 2025-09-24 12:33

Appreciating assets!

Lower_Comfortable393 2025-09-25 16:05

Thank you. I didn't understand how they had 3 accidents on one day and zero for the next 30.

Bi0H4z4rD667 2025-09-26 08:03

Those are the ones they couldn’t cover quickly enough…

PatchyWhiskers 2025-09-28 03:06

Could be that or it could be propped up by the same thing as bitcoin: techbro's with more money than they know what to do with.

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