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Tesla wants you to believe in its self-driving tech, but even its own AI trainers won’t trust it

Digital Trends·Rachit Agarwal·3 days ago
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Elon Musk has been promising a fully autonomous Tesla for the better part of a decade. If you believe him, that future is right around the corner. But a new Reuters investigation suggests the people closest to the technology, the ones actually training it, want nothing to do with it. Hundreds of Tesla workers spend their days watching footage captured by cars running Full Self-Driving . They watch cats, dogs, and deer getting struck without the car braking, near-misses with children, and Teslas blowing through speed limits by 20 to 30 mph. Things seem dire, and yet Elon Musk keeps telling the world that FSD is ready to take the wheel. Is FSD actually safer than a human driver? Tesla has repeatedly claimed that FSD is up to 10 times safer than the average human driver, a claim that has been cited by its CFO, board chair, and Musk himself at shareholder meetings. The problem is that the methodology behind that number is deeply flawed.…

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