Tesla Says Its Robotaxi App Now Open to Public Riders

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Tesla announces its Robotaxi app is open to public riders, but commenters question the significance of this move, citing the need for human safety monitors and limited service availability.

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x187463

4 months ago

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As long as they have a human safety monitor in the vehicle, meaningful scaling cannot occur. On a related note, the FSD software in the rest of the fleet has not seen a noteworthy update since early this year.

Arrowmaster

4 months ago

I wonder if the human safety monitor will be informing all riders of where the physical door releases are hidden like the owners manual says you should inform all passengers of in case the vehicle loses power in a collision.

Teslas are a passenger deathtrap waiting to happen.

grim_io

4 months ago

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Such genius.

Next, Musk will revolutionize manufacturing by using humanoid robots.

Of course, they will be individually operated by a person.

snypher

4 months ago

Don't worry, there's just a worker on the assembly line for _legal reasons_.

guywithahat

4 months ago

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Robotaxi's are especially interesting because once they're working on their own properly, Tesla has the capacity and funding to spread them nationwide in a relatively short while, much faster than waymo could ever do.

All they have to do is get them working without a safety monitor first...

linotype

4 months ago

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So Waymo…

guywithahat

4 months ago

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Yeah but Waymo's aren't cost competitive, so you can't really spread them across the country until the price comes down. Tesla has already finished and demonstrated they can produce millions of their product a year, and so when they really figure it out they could absolutely explode

zwirbl

4 months ago

If they figure it out before losing the market

linotype

4 months ago

Except they are, they’re rolling out new cities all the time.

JumpCrisscrossAuthor

4 months ago

> Tesla has the capacity and funding to spread them nationwide

Musk’s politics mean these won’t be approved in big cities easily.

jerlam

4 months ago