Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
Good. Tesla’s FSD seems to be easily the best in the market. https://www.motortrend.com/features/tesla-fsd-driver-assistance-system-best-tech-2026
It’s good that EU is careful about this stuff, which is why the piloting is happening in a limited set of countries. But when it has been tested, why keep putting hurdles over the technology? People are literally dying in preventable human-caused car accidents every day.
NHTSA reports human drivers to 1.9 incidents per million miles, and self driving cars companies refuse to give the mileage data. They are forced to give incidents rate data, and we can somehow estimate their milage and then we arrive at over 12 incidents per million miles for self driving levels 3-5.
Oh in 2025 NHTSA changed reporting requirements, to more relaxed, with less supervision and oversight, and no pushback or controls, laid off 25% of workers and changed it’s director to Morrison who was at the time Apple Self Driving Car Chief Council.
And even now it’s almost twice the rate of human driver per million miles.