| ▲ | fastball 3 days ago |
| Tesla is literally operating a robotaxi service. |
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| ▲ | minwcnt5 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| They're operating a Robotaxi service, not a robotaxi service. If I create a shuttle bus service for my neighborhood and call it the "Space Shuttle", I am not operating a space shuttle. |
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| ▲ | FireBeyond 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A whole 15 cars, with "supervisors" in the drivers seat! And only last week did they even open up the waitlist to non-influencers. |
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| ▲ | fastball 3 days ago | parent [-] | | The supervisors are not in the driver's seat. | | |
| ▲ | Workaccount2 3 days ago | parent [-] | | https://electrek.co/2025/09/03/tesla-moves-robotaxi-safety-m... The day this news was released, Elon released the video of him talking to the Optimus bot to overshadow the news. Showman gonna showman. | | |
| ▲ | fastball 3 days ago | parent [-] | | TIL. I stand corrected. Though worth pointing out (as the article does) that on September 1st, new legislation in Texas was passed adding some restrictions to autonomous vehicles. So seems reasonably likely this is more regulatory than necessary. | | |
| ▲ | FireBeyond 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I wonder what motivated Texas, who was famously very open to such testing, to tighten down the regulations more after time? |
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| ▲ | supportengineer 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Unsafe at any speed |
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| ▲ | adrianmonk 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They've managed to automate it but reduce the labor costs by zero in the process. Now that's innovation. |
