With good reason, given so many Tesla crashes in 2023, Americans now don’t trust a Tesla to be on shared public roads.
…68% of Americans are afraid of self-driving cars…
It’s literally a reaction to Tesla Autopilot failures and fatalities, and arguably getting worse over time.
…last year’s surge in anxiety [was] all the more notable.
“We were not expecting such a dramatic decline in trust from previous years,” stated AAA director of automotive research Greg Bannon. “Although with the number high-profile crashes that have occurred from over-reliance on current vehicle technologies, this isn’t entirely surprising.”
Tesla has been an obvious fraud since 2016, killing hundreds of people. It’s just becoming a question of why any government allows Tesla to continue to operate, and why that CEO isn’t being lined up like he runs the Enron of cars.
This comes on the heels of people realizing that a robotaxi will ruin cities while making passengers easy targets with few to no security options. It feels more like being subjected to a moving dystopic single-cell jail than offered any conveniences.
[SF riders describe being helpless and terrified.] If we were outside walking we could’ve walked away, run away. If we were driving, we could make sure we locked the door. In this instance, we literally had no control.
“We had no control” sounds awful, like a taxi of Soviet Russia Развалюха-style design.
Robo-taxis are shaping up to be the most anti-city anti-democracy concept possible. Sensible and proven public transportation solutions (trains, subways, buses and bicycles) are being threatened by already unworkable and toxic swarms of anti-public robots controlled by opaque unaccountable private and probably foreign agents. What’s next, someone with their finger on the swarm algorithms commands 40,000 road robots to rampage and destroy an American city?
In related news, IIHS has tested and ranked Tesla the most unsafe driverless. Their assessment should surprise exactly nobody.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said: “Some drivers may feel that partial automation makes long drives easier, but there is little evidence it makes driving safer.”
The evidence continues to prove the opposite of what Tesla promises. Their designs and engineering, always rushed and poorly tested, make roads far less safe.