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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

You raise an excellent point, one which i was hoping to find out more about as well. It turns out Tesla has been working hard to keep pretty much any pertinent information to answer your questions firmly under lock and key.

From this Electrek article https://electrek.co/2025/11/17/tesla-robotaxi-had-3-more-crashes-now-7-total/

Unlike other companies reporting to NHTSA, Tesla abuses the right to redact data reported through the system. The automaker redacts the “narrative” for each reported crash, preventing the public from knowing how the crashes happened and who is responsible.

Based on the limited information in Tesla’s reports, we know that one of the new crashes involved a Robotaxi driving into a car backing up, another involved a cyclist, and the last one involved an unknown animal.

So he's basically fudging the numbers and anytime he's questioned he points at the fudged numbers and says everything's great, he's great, now get out of the way while he deploys a fleet of these un-manned deathtraps to "half the US population" according to a properly ultra-super-inflated kind of claim only a douchebag like Leon can make. No, seriously--he actually claimed that by the end of 2025 he'll have these things serving half the population of the US.

https://electrek.co/2025/07/23/elon-musk-with-straight-face-tesla-robotaxi-will-cover-half-us-population-end-year/

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