Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges

lesuorac

Probably just re-enacting the training data.

bryanlarsen

Tesla/Musk has stated many times that FSD will follow common practice rather than follow the letter of the law. Over 90% of Americans speed in school zones, so FSD is presumably programmed to also do so. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27029

Surac

would rust have fixed this?

vessenes

My FSD 14.3 car definitely does NOT respect school zones. Maybe I’m weird, but whether or not I have the car in “Hurry” mode, I expect a hard cutoff at speed limit for a school zone of myself or anything acting on my behalf. I could understand the semantics around “Mad Max” not respecting the signage, but still. Bro. Slow down in a school zone.

t1234s

Most school zones (if not all of them) should be eliminated.

kklisura

Just couple of billions of miles of driving data more and they'll be good to go!

time0ut

I have heard of small towns that generated income by running speed traps. There was a notorious one near where I am from where the speed limit changed like a dozen times seemingly randomly over the course of a couple miles. Maybe someday we will see some enterprising sheriff set up some trap for Tesla robotaxis and fund their local government by fining Elon. They can beta test it by sticking a cop at the nearest school right now!

Aarostotle

It looks like there are 3 alleged incidents, not 1,000. That figure is the number of total Robotaxis. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2026/INOA-DP26010-19159.pdf Did the author even read the petition?

ButlerianJihad

I've been extremely pleased with Waymo's adherence to the smallest footnotes of law. Several weeks ago, I was just leaving church, and the road outside is a 7-lane stroad. There was light traffic, and Waymo (Jaguar I-PACE) was accelerating to the 45mph limit, when suddenly it slowed, pulled over, and stopped on the shoulder. Mystified, I looked around to see what had caused this, and I noticed that a school bus, stopped with lights flashing, and disembarking young children, was directly opposite us (no concrete island) and the Waymo Driver was the only vehicle that obeyed the law . It was not much later when a fire engine or two, at exactly the same point on exactly the same stroad, came screaming towards us with lights and sirens. Again, nobody else in traffic cared. The Waymo Driver immediately, safely, pulled over to the side, and stayed there until the first responders had passed. There've been a lot of incidents where the Waymo Driver simply does the right thing. I'm so grateful for this. Not even I know the traffic laws well enough to drive like this. It's a modern miracle, and a dream come true. No taxi driver, no immigrant rideshare, comes close!