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Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers
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this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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If only there was an entity that could make rules about who and what can be driven on public roads.
I know it sounds impossible, but what if this entity could have stepped in before companies tread public roads and other drivers as beta testers for their half finished commercial products? They could have forced companies to either make this stuff work, or keep it off the roads.
Real talk for a moment: The world, but especially the USA has been on fire over the last decade. Sometimes I wonder how different the introduction of certain technologies could have been if everyone wasn't distracted by all the craziness and governments had actually done their job. I'm not just talking about self-driving or AI, as another example, but also crypto and social media in general. Would things be much different, if this stuff appeared during "boring times"?
Sorry, I'm just rambling here ...
I don't think the blank cheque handed to these emergent technologies is a function of the times in which they emerged. Rather it's the fact that technology advances much faster than the wheels of government turn; it's nearly inevitable that new technologies will be largely unregulated until government can catch up.