Are the Tesslas Driving Their Own Vehicles?

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There were 370 crashes involving vehicles that had advance drivers is technology. They recorded around about a hundred and 30 or so for the autonymous vehicles. What they're actually capable of is what's called level to autotomiust driving, there are five levels. If you buy a car that does not have the hardware necessary for full self driving, it is like buying a horse.

The data is in on autonomous cars: They are crashing, but they're still doing a lot better than regular cars driven by humans. The Verge’s Andrew Hawkins and Vox’s Marin Cogan take the wheel.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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