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Comment by jacquesm

3 hours ago

> One crash in 500,000 miles would merely put them on par with a human driver.

> One crash every 50,000 miles would be more like having my sister behind the wheel.

I'm not sure if that leads to the conclusion that you want it to.

From the tone, it seems that the poster's sister is a particularly bad driver (or at least they believe her to be). While having an autonomous car that can drive as well as even a bad human driver is definitely a major accomplishment technologically, we all know that threshold was passed a long time ago. However, if Tesla's robotaxis (with human monitors on board, let's not forget - these are not fully autonomous cars like Waymo's!) are at best as good as some of the worse human drivers, then they have no business being allowed on public roads. Remember that human drivers can also lose their license if [caught] driving too poorly.

It does. She just ran over a bus shelter, like she was vibe driving a Tesla on autopilot or something.