It feels extremely disingenuous to have a video of burned Teslas (from vandalism) at the top of the article... why do this? Is there any explanation for this except malice? It has absolutely nothing to do with the safety of robotaxis.
Isn't it spicy enough to just report on the safety issues from Robotaxis?
Also:
> But several of the Austin crashes occurred while the vehicles were moving slowly or stationary, one incident involved contact with a fixed object in a parking area. Analysts say this suggests the system's perception and decision-making may not be giving monitors enough time to react, a key issue NHTSA has previously flagged in other FSD-related investigations.
Interesting for sure. This is also what some of the FSD influencers see when they test the limits (especially with parking with small obstacles).
All of the four crashes mentioned are low to no speed crashes.
At least two, to attestation of another person, was because an inattentive SUV hit the back of the car when it was making a left turn. People really want Tesla to not be good at self-driving.
None of these crashes occurred at higher than 8 MPH.
But yeah, let's not mention Waymo crashing into stationary objects and doing dangerous maneuvers such as cutting opposing traffic off during left turns or making turns from the middle lane despite having like 8x more sensors than Tesla does and pre-trained mapping
Crashes happen. Tesla is currently having a rash of them but Waymo isn't immune to "wtf how" kinds of crashes even with all of its built-in advantages (far more sensors and having pre-mapping).
Looks to me like a "you might also be interested in..." sort of thing, not something that's supposed to be part of the article. If you're reading an article about Tesla you may also like this video about Tesla.
At the very top of the article? Showing vandalism from 6 months ago rather than all the crazy Tesla news this week (like Elon's "$1tn" pay package, which is equally as spicy).
Again, at a certain point, it gets harder to defend as harmless with the visual of completely destroyed Teslas.
Remember that the purpose of a news site is to make money by driving clicks so they can show advertising. What's more likely to get clicked: a story about CEO pay with a thumbnail of... I don't know, Elon Musk looking slightly disheveled as usual? Or a story about burning cars?
Keep in mind that if their choice of video annoys you to the extent that you complain about how horribly biased they are against Tesla, then mission accomplished as far as they're concerned. That's more people clicking the article and watching the video's preroll ad to see what you're talking about.
Isn't it spicy enough to just report on the safety issues from Robotaxis?
Also:
> But several of the Austin crashes occurred while the vehicles were moving slowly or stationary, one incident involved contact with a fixed object in a parking area. Analysts say this suggests the system's perception and decision-making may not be giving monitors enough time to react, a key issue NHTSA has previously flagged in other FSD-related investigations.
Interesting for sure. This is also what some of the FSD influencers see when they test the limits (especially with parking with small obstacles).