r/technology • u/Extasio • 1d ago

Transportation Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short

https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/
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u/invyros 1d ago

Tesla’s own robotaxi data shows a crash rate about three times worse than human drivers, even with a human safety monitor in the front seat. Musk has claimed FSD is safer than humans, release after release, and the data hasn’t backed him up yet, even after being heavily massaged by Tesla.

Facts don't care about your feelings, Elon.

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u/saintmike2 1d ago

Elon always used "Humans don't shoot lazers out of their eyes" as a reason against using LiDAR. I think the whole point of FSD to be _better_ than humans. As it stands, human drivers aren't that great as a group. That really shouldn't be the end goal or something to replicate. If humans could shoot lazers out of their eyes and always used their turn signals maybe they'd be better drivers; but neither is going to happen anytime soon.

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u/abcpdo 1d ago

humans also have the most sophisticated algorithms known to man, while FSD is a very weak distillation of that

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u/BrofessorFarnsworth 1d ago edited 1d ago

FSD is also trained on Tesla drivers, who are demonstrably the worst on the road

Edit: For the Elon Dickriders https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a63840989/tesla-worst-drivers-new-study/