Since 2021, the NHTSA has required the manufacturers of self-driving systems to report crashes involving their technologies. This policy is part of the Standing General Order on Crash Reporting, designed to track real-world safety data and hold companies accountable for their self-driving systems.
This reporting offers helpful insight into how self-driving technology behaves in real-world conditions. However, as I began to review the NHTSA self-driving crash data for myself, I noticed something strange:
Tesla has requested a redaction on every crash report involving their self-driving technology.
Here’s what we found when we dug into the data to see what was behind the redactions.
That’s pretty damning, to be honest. If anyone I cared about drove a Tesla I’d at least try to make sure they weren’t using any of the self driving bollocks - it’s clearly not safe.
They seem to have a hard time avoiding stationary objects, like poles and trees.
I wonder how well they’ll do in highly dynamic environments, like pedestrian crosswalks with bike lanes?
Now imagine these things driving around your city in the form of “cybercab”.
