Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.

But, but, but, robots/AI are better than humans!?!?!

Rodney Brooks, Godfather of Modern Robotics, famous for the Roomba, argues the humanoid robot craze in Silicon Valley is doomed to fail.

Today's entrepreneurs promise robots that not only look human — or human-ish — but can do everything a person can.

Tech investors are pouring billions into the effort, but Mr. Brooks argues that general-purpose humanoid robots will not be coming home soon, and that they are not safe enough to be around humans.

In September, he delivered an authoritative takedown in an essay that concluded that over the next 15 years, “a lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots. But those robots will be long gone and mostly conveniently forgotten.”

Quite the fascinating read.