Vollständiges autonomes Fahren klingt wie Magie, bis Sie die Unfallzahlen sehen

Full Self-Driving sounds like a cheat code for traffic. The real crash numbers are a lot less glamorous. Since 2021, federal crash reports collected under NHTSA’s Standing General Order have shown one pattern again and again: Tesla racks up the bulk of serious incidents involving driver-assist systems, especially fatal crashes where Autopilot or FSD was in play. At the same time, a new Waymo safety study over 56.7 million driverless miles shows big drops in injury crashes compared with human drivers in the same cities. Fewer serious injuries. Fewer pedestrian hits. Fewer cyclists on the ground. That doesn’t make robotaxis perfect, but it proves something important: sensor-heavy, tightly supervised automation behaves very differently from camera-only systems that lean on the driver as the final safety net.

A Reuters analysis of federal crash reports found Tesla involved in the vast majority of fatal crashes reported under those rules, even as the company talks up safety stats on its own site. That tension is the whole story in one picture: the marketing says „safer than humans,“ while independent data keeps regulators glued to Tesla’s every move.

Similar to crime, there is a small minority of people who are responsible for the majority of accidents so the numbers are misleading. I’ve been driving 30 years and never caused an accident yet. If we could eliminate the worst 10% of drivers we would probably have 10x less accidents. 

>Use driver-assist where it shines, kill it the second the car gets weird, and spend your money with brands that prove safety with hard crash data, not just bold claims.

I’m sorry, this is such a cop-out of a final verdict.

If I have to continuously supervise an automation technology, then it’s a pointless technology.

Either it’s autonomous or it’s not.

Have the journalistic courage to say that the Tesla FSD is advertising deception.

I can’t be the only one to see how the statistics are twisted to paint a narrative. Take a close look.

Tesla: accounts for the most incidents involving driver-assist systems.

Waymo: fewer injury crashes than human drivers.

So you have to ask. What are the Tesla statistics for Waymo and what are the Waymo statics for Tesla? Does Tesla autopilot or FSD result in fewer or more injury crashes than human drivers? What is Waymo’s share of incidents involving self-driving, normalized by mileage?

Tesla un-scaled numbers are always big because they have the most self-driving miles. By a mile. To draw any meaningful comparisons, you need to divide the incident numbers by the mileage.

The article loses all credibility when it’s trying to pitch apples against oranges.

Is it too difficult for Silicon Valley to build a transportation system that doesn’t kill people?

Stop driving teslas. Seriously