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Tesla Robotaxi 4x worse than human drivers

2026-02-19 18:33:09.249727+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

An elderly friend of mine recently splurged on a Tesla with FSD. YouTubers have made him a Musk fanboy, and he's wanted something like this, and he's also of the opinion that his age and health mean that he's less safe to drive, and...

I took a ride with him in his car, and it is, indeed, pretty amazing. Had a little trouble in parking lots, though that may have been because he got impatient and overrode it, but it's managing most standard driving tasks pretty well.

However, he's also ordering dark glasses from Zenni so that he doesn't have to be quite so attentive, to fool the gaze direction stuff. And I wonder about attention fatigue. Anyway, this is with safety drivers, I suspect attention fatigue is a real thing. I hope that said friend manages to avoid this problem, and if he doesn't that he doesn't harm anyone...

Elektrek: Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month — 4x worse than humans

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