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Low? Put it this way. You work in a company or go to class with 45 people. Do you really think that 14 crashes in the last ~9 months is low?

In terms of miles driven, which is the fair comparison, from the article:

> Electrek analysis found that the vehicles have traveled roughly 800,000 paid miles in that time period, amounting to a crash every 57,000 miles. According to the NHTSA, US drivers crash once every 500,000 miles on average.

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Maybe, I really can't say.

My coworkers aren't telling me every time they back into a light post nor are they narcing on themselves to their insurer (who tells the NHTSA) that they wound up in a ditch and the tow truck driver had to pop their bumper cover back on.

We have no good data for how often humans make "not work reporting to anybody" crashes because the system is set up to be adversarial and therefore those do't get reported and there are a lot of those in this data.

Well, if it was 45 fifteen year old kids taking a short book class in drivers ed, and then turned loose on the streets of Austin, then yes.

perfect! this is exactly what the Tesla “robotaxi” slogan should be - *Ride with us to experience what being driven by 15-year old kids is like”

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