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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.