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how often do human drivers crash?


I try to keep my crashes below once a month ;)


I am sure if you counted for example Skoda Octavia crashes it'd be way more than once a day.

Let's talk about "adaptive cruise control" too - I am not aware of any company other than Tesla having any sort of working crash protection built into that feature. My old Ford Mondeo just makes a loud noise and brakes a little, but you're going to crash anyways, it's not going to move the steering wheel an inch.

Volvo cars with "lane assist" will consistently turn you into the ditch - because it greatly overcompensates when you get near the line, which can be deadly above 100 km/h. And it's pretty hard to turn off that feature while driving and it turns on automatically when you power on the car.

Why do people keep hating on the provably most safe car (Tesla Model S) instead of mentioning all the other cars with terrible unsafe assistants? Roads would be much safer place if everyone had a Tesla.


I've never crashed my car driving in downtown Seattle. But FSD cannot handle downtown Seattle or downtown Chicago from the videos seen on YouTube. The crashes would be at least one per day. It's even unacceptable for a system such as this to crash the car once per year when it's a $40,000+ purchase.




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