Self-driving cars are often marketed as safer than human drivers, but new data suggests that may not always be the case.
Citing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Electrek reports that Tesla disclosed five new crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin. The new data raises concerns about how safe Tesla’s systems really are compared to the average driver.
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.
Who insures these things?
Tesla
Are they even insured like typical insurance?
If Tesla owns it, don’t they just pay out of pocket as needed, they don’t actually have a monthly payment to themselves or anything?
There’s no way, then why can’t I drive around “uninsured” with thr promise I’ll pay out of my pocket for any damage.
I’m not sure if this is available everywhere, but in California you can put up a bond in lieu of insurance with the DMV.
This is what I was thinking was possible ya. If they have enough money, they could just cover it themselves.
I really don’t know if that can be done everywhere though.
And ya, as an individual self insuring this way, it would be a disaster going against a behemoth like Tesla.
Companies routinely purchase insurance against their own liabilities.
What auto insurance company would insure an unproven tech like this at a reasonable rate?
If someones willing to insure it, it must cost an arm and a leg at least at this point in time in the cycle?