"What happened: These latest Tesla crashes in Austin involved "a collision with a fixed object at 17 mph while the vehicle was driving straight, a crash with a bus while the Tesla was stationary, a collision with a heavy truck at 4 mph, and two separate incidents where the Tesla backed into objects, one into a pole or tree at 1 mph and another into a fixed object at 2 mph," according to Electrek."
"The crash rate? Nearly four times higher than human drivers -a serious problem for a company betting its future on autonomous vehicles. Based on the roughly 800,000 cumulative paid miles Tesla has logged, Electrek estimated that its robotaxi fleet is crashing once every 57,000 miles-nearly four times more often than Tesla says human drivers crash. "That is not a rounding error or an early-program hiccup," says Electrek."
Tesla's Austin robotaxi service logged five crashes in December and January, bringing the total to 14 since launching last summer. The crashes included a collision with a fixed object at 17 mph while driving straight, a crash with a bus while stationary, a collision with a heavy truck at 4 mph, and two backing incidents into a pole or fixed object at 1–2 mph. Across roughly 800,000 cumulative paid miles, the fleet appears to crash about once every 57,000 miles, nearly four times the human-driver crash rate. Other AV companies, including Waymo and Zoox, have also faced notable incidents and regulatory scrutiny. Major investments and Tesla's strategic pivot make robotaxi safety performance a high-stakes issue for industry progress.
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