>Tesla stock has been riding on the self driving robo-taxies meme for a decade now

We do have self-driving taxis now, and they are so good that people will pay extra to take them. It's just not Tesla cars doing it.

Is still there some indian online to guide them through difficult intersections?

Yes, and yet the rate of development and deployment is substantially slower than people like me were expecting.

Back in 2009, I was expecting normal people to be able to just buy a new vehicle with no steering wheel required or supplied by 2019, not for a handful of geo-fenced taxis that slowly expanded over the 6 years from 2019 to 2025.