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At least 14 Teslas have crashed into emergency vehicles while using the system.

Seems like quite a lot?

Maybe the robot thinks: Heck, if I'm gonna crash, may as well crash into the safest place to do it. At least they can rescue me/put out the fire/solve it somehow. Or to take a leaf from the film I, Robot:

  SPOONER:

  The truck smashed our cars together...

  and pushed us into the river.

  I mean, metal gets pretty

  pliable at those speeds.

  She's pinned. I'm pinned.

  The water's coming in.

  I'm a cop, so I already

  know everybody's dead.

  Just a few more minutes

  before we figure it out.

  An NS-4 was passing by...

  saw the accident and

  jumped in the water.



  [flashback]

  NS-4 ROBOT:

  You are in danger.



  SPOONER: Save her!

  NS-4 ROBOT: You are in danger.



  SPOONER:

  Save her! Save the girl! Save her!



  [realtime]

  SPOONER: But it didn't.

  It saved me.



  CALVIN: The robot's brain is a difference engine.

  It reads vital signs. It must have calculated...



  SPOONER: --It did. I was the logical choice.

  It calculated that I had a 45

  percent chance of survival.

  Sarah only had an 11 percent chance.

  That was somebody's baby.

  Eleven percent is more than enough.

  A human being would have known that.

  Robots, nothing here.

  Just lights and clockwork.

  *Go ahead and you trust them if you want to.*

It does seem like a lot. But it's also important to consider how many miles were driven by the fleet and how many hams crashed into emergency vehicles over the same amount driven.

I'm not a Tesla apologist, I just can't make sense of raw numbers where we would naturally try to make a comparison.

No, you see, there’s no problem here because people would’ve been crashing into things at an even higher rate without Tesla Telepathic Full Self Driving and Penile Embiggening All Natural Herbal Vision AI Sentient System (Beta).

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