42 pointsby tempestn9 hours ago6 comments
  • zamadatix8 hours ago
    Already active discussion in the following posts:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051559 (6 hours ago - 14 comments)

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 (6 hours ago - 216 comments)

  • throwaway815237 hours ago
    And they are making them without steering wheels now! There's a saying about that I'm sure.

    https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-rolls-first-steering-wh...

  • 1970-01-018 hours ago
    >Citing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Electrek reports.

    Round and round we go. The original story: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...

  • briandw8 hours ago
    How many of you have run into a bollard or other fixed structure at less than 5 mph and didn't report it?
  • testing223218 hours ago
    “A crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped”

    Hmmmm.

    This guy must have a huge short position

    • hn_throwaway_998 hours ago
      And you must have a long position if you're going to cherry pick so egregiously. The other incidents from that same paragraph that you conveniently left out:

      * a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour

      * a crash with a truck at four miles per hour

      * two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.

      So in the 5 cases listed in that paragraph, 3 of them were when a Tesla hit a stationary object. Hitting a stationary object should be like the last thing I would think an autonomous vehicle would have trouble with, but if you got rid of lidar and radar because Elon had a fever dream, maybe it's not so unexpected.

      • testing223215 hours ago
        I get it, there’s been a ton of crashes and it’s BAD.

        The article would carry more weight if it didn’t throw in a bus hitting a stationary Tesla.

    • decimalenough8 hours ago
      That phrasing gave me a chuckle as well. Nevertheless, the accidents per miles driven stats don't assign blame: Tesla is now "experiencing" a crash every 57,000 mi, vs the US statistical human driver average of 229,000 miles and Waymo's claimed ~500,000 mi per "incident".

      https://waymo.com/safety/impact/

      • simondotau2 hours ago
        There are no reliable statistics on how often human drivers bump into static objects at 1 mph, but I am quite certain it's more often than every 229,000 miles.
    • stahtops8 hours ago
      Fascinating to cherry pick while trying to color an article as biased. Couldn’t even include an entire sentence?

      “The incidents included a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour, a crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped, a crash with a truck at four miles per hour, and two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.”