And you must have a long position if you're going to cherry pick so egregiously. The other incidents from that same paragraph that you conveniently left out:
* a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour
* a crash with a truck at four miles per hour
* two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.
So in the 5 cases listed in that paragraph, 3 of them were when a Tesla hit a stationary object. Hitting a stationary object should be like the last thing I would think an autonomous vehicle would have trouble with, but if you got rid of lidar and radar because Elon had a fever dream, maybe it's not so unexpected.
That phrasing gave me a chuckle as well. Nevertheless, the accidents per miles driven stats don't assign blame: Tesla is now "experiencing" a crash every 57,000 mi, vs the US statistical human driver average of 229,000 miles and Waymo's claimed ~500,000 mi per "incident".
Fascinating to cherry pick while trying to color an article as biased. Couldn’t even include an entire sentence?
“The incidents included a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour, a crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped, a crash with a truck at four miles per hour, and two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.”
zamadatix|12 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051559 (6 hours ago - 14 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546 (6 hours ago - 216 comments)
simondotau|12 days ago
1970-01-01|12 days ago
Round and round we go. The original story: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...
throwaway81523|12 days ago
https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-rolls-first-steering-wh...
briandw|12 days ago
throwaway5465|12 days ago
testing22321|12 days ago
Hmmmm.
This guy must have a huge short position
hn_throwaway_99|12 days ago
* a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour
* a crash with a truck at four miles per hour
* two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.
So in the 5 cases listed in that paragraph, 3 of them were when a Tesla hit a stationary object. Hitting a stationary object should be like the last thing I would think an autonomous vehicle would have trouble with, but if you got rid of lidar and radar because Elon had a fever dream, maybe it's not so unexpected.
decimalenough|12 days ago
https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
stahtops|12 days ago
“The incidents included a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour, a crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped, a crash with a truck at four miles per hour, and two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.”