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r/SelfDrivingCars

Self-Driving Cars – Look, no hands!. News and discussion about Autonomous Vehicles and Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS). Founded 2012 · 115.8K members

114.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.5K upvotes, which works out to 83 per 1,000 members.

83peak upvotes per 1,000 members
114.9Kmembers
9.5Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
198posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Link 44% Video 40% Text 10% Question 5% Image 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Driving Footage 55 News 33 Discussion 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Tesla Robotaxi Day 1: Significant Screw-up [NOT OC]

↑ 9.5K 💬 2.4K video 2025

"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops…

↑ 8.8K 💬 284 video 2026

Tesla Robotaxi Rams through several Bollards and keeps going.

↑ 3.8K 💬 1.1K video 2026

Britain blocks launch of Elon Musk’s self-driving Tesla

↑ 2.9K 💬 132 link 2025

Robotaxi cuts off another car and brakes for tree shadow

↑ 2.8K 💬 874 video 2025

Tesla Robotaxi attempts illegal left turn, safety monitor intervention

↑ 2.7K 💬 842 video 2025

Robotaxi confidently splashes through water-covered streets during Austin storm

↑ 2.6K 💬 909 video 2025

Tesla Robotaxi vs. Waymo in Austin

↑ 2.3K 💬 657 video 2025

Watch this guy calmly explain why lidar+vision just makes sense

↑ 1.9K 💬 877 video 2025

Elon Musk in 2019: "If you need a geofence area you don't have real self driving!"

↑ 1.9K 💬 441 video 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/SelfDrivingCars, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/SelfDrivingCars?
r/SelfDrivingCars ("Self-Driving Cars – Look, no hands!") describes itself this way: News and discussion about Autonomous Vehicles and Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS). It was founded in 2012 and has 115.8K members.
How many members does r/SelfDrivingCars have?
r/SelfDrivingCars has about 114.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 198 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.5K upvotes, which is 83 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/SelfDrivingCars?
"Tesla Robotaxi Day 1: Significant Screw-up [NOT OC]" reached 9.5K upvotes and 2.4K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/SelfDrivingCars.
What subreddits are similar to r/SelfDrivingCars?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/SelfDrivingCars?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are link posts and 40% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/SelfDrivingCars?
Across 198 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 23:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 21:00 UTC (873 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 18:00 UTC (563 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/SelfDrivingCars?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/SelfDrivingCars has 1.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/SelfDrivingCars, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.