this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
1123 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

68306 readers
4099 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
1123
Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis (fuelarc.com)
submitted 2 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
217 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

TL;DR: Self-Driving Teslas Rear-End Motorcyclists, Killing at Least 5

Brevity is the spirit of wit, and I am just not that witty. This is a long article, here is the gist of it:

  • The NHTSA’s self-driving crash data reveals that Tesla’s self-driving technology is, by far, the most dangerous for motorcyclists, with five fatal crashes that we know of.
  • This issue is unique to Tesla. Other self-driving manufacturers have logged zero motorcycle fatalities with the NHTSA in the same time frame.
  • The crashes are overwhelmingly Teslas rear-ending motorcyclists.

Read our full analysis as we go case-by-case and connect the heavily redacted government data to news reports and police documents.

Oh, and read our thoughts about what this means for the robotaxi launch that is slated for Austin in less than 60 days.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I imagine bicyclists must be æffected as well if they're on the road (as we should be, technically). As somebody who has already been literally inches away from being rear-ended, this makes me never want to bike in the US again.

Time to go to Netherlands.

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

*affected

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Affectively, does it realy mater if someone has slite misstakes in there righting?

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think i had a stroke reading that. Take your upvote and get out!

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not going to lie, I almost had a stroke writing it...

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I upvoted every comment in this sub-thread shitshow and hated all of it.

You monster gif

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yer welcome!

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago

this makes me never want to bike in the US again.

I live close enough to work for it to be a very reasonable biking distance. But there is no safe route. A high-speed "stroad" with a narrow little bike lane. It would only be a matter of time before some asshole with their face in their phone drifts into me.

I am deeply resentful of our automobile-centric infrastructure in the U.S. It's bad for the environment, bad for our wallets, bad for our waistlines, and bad for physical safety.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

human driving cars still target bicyclists on purpose so i don’t know see how teslas could be any worse…

p.s. painting a couple lines on the side of the road does not make a safe bike lane… they need a physical barrier separating the road from them… like how curbs separate the road from sidewalks…

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I mean yeah, I just said above that someone almost killed me. They were probably a human driver. But that's a "might happen, never know." If self driving cars are rear-ending people, that's an inherent artifact of it's programming, even though it's not intentionally programmed to do that.

So it's like, things were already bad. I already do not feel safe doing any biking anymore. But as self driving cars become more prevalent, that threat upgrades to a kind of defacto, "Oh, these vast stretches of land are places where only cars and trucks are allowed. Everything else is roadkill waiting to happen."