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Question: what value do self driving taxis add to regular taxis? I can't think of any. All that money poured into something that solves no problem at all and just creates more, killing human jobs in the process. It's so stupid.
Regular taxis kill a lot more people
Robotaxis have three times the accident rate of human drivers.
https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/
Remove Teslas from that and now what are the stats?
As usual, anything Musk touches turns to shit, including self-driving cars.
That's just Tesla, and that's because musk is a moron and forced them to go optical sensors only.
Waymo, on the other hand, is significantly safer than humans. Although that is a pretty low bar to clear since humans are awful at driving.
Police reported
In training data, way higher. Also, notice I said they kill fewer people. So far that's true
Waymos got 220 million miles and 0 deaths so far. They'd be close to 3 by now going by human averages. I dont know far they'll make it, but you know whenever it does happen, there will be a huge uproar.
I’d be curious to see this quantified, and whether “more” takes into consideration that regular taxis far outnumber Robotaxis
Its been done a couple dozen times, always compared on a per-mile basis.