"It doesn't sound like a particularly severe accident, but it's striking that these crashes are happening at all. Not only are the Tesla cabs limited to a highly-mapped out and small area of a single city - at least for the time being - but they're also supervised by a human "safety monitor" sitting in the front passenger seat who can intervene at any moment to stop a crash. The service also relies on a hidden backbone of teleoperators who can pilot the vehicles remotely when needed."
"Given the service's small size, the crashes are worryingly frequent. As Electrek notes, the company revealed in an earnings call last week that its fleet had traveled 250,000 miles since launching late June, which translates to a crash every 62,500 miles. Waymo, for comparison, has a crash every 98,600 miles -and that's without a safety monitor or any physica"
NHTSA reported another Tesla Robotaxi collision occurred in September, marking the fourth reported crash since the service launched in late June. Tesla redacted most crash information, limiting understanding of what happened. The crash occurred in a parking lot when a Robotaxi struck a fixed object; no injuries were reported but property damage occurred. Robotaxis operate in a small, highly mapped area in Austin and are overseen by a front-seat safety monitor and remote teleoperators. The fleet logged 250,000 miles, implying a crash every 62,500 miles, a higher frequency than some competitors.
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