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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by gamblor956 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:42AM (#29903141)
On an absolute basis, Tesla has more self-driving-related deaths than every other automaker in the world, combined. That doesn't scare you?

On a relative basis, it's even scarier: scaled up to Toyota or GM numbers (in terms of vehicles sold), hundreds of people would be dying each year from self-driving crashes.

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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by radicalbyte on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @02:52AM (#29903575)
A few hundred people have died on a 5km stretch of road near me in the last couple of years. None of them driving Teslas. Most of them drunk or driving far too fast (50km/h is safe, people often drive 150km/h because shortcut and the stretch literally drives like a race course).
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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by bryanlarsen on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:56AM (#29903216)
That sounds a lot better than the tens of thousands that die with humans at the wheel.
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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by emodendroket on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @02:01AM (#29903250)
Not if you start comparing against miles driven it doesn't.
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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by mavhc on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:36AM (#29918710)
So far FSD beta has killed 0 people, and other FSD software has killed 1 person. So they seem to be ahead.
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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by mavhc on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:35AM (#29904205)
3000 people die every day from Human Driven Cars
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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by kevingadd on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:38AM (#29904234)
Until teslas don't require constant human attention and frequent interventions, this comparison doesn't matter. A human is still technically in control of the car.
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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by mavhc on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:23AM (#29908719)
So they should work on doing that as soon as possible?
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Re:DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s publi... by randomchars on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:56AM (#29903215)
But aren’t 10s of thousands of people dying from self-driving crashes?
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