Tesla’s robotaxi trial in Austin, Texas, was live for less than 24 hours before one of Tesla’s AI-driven cars broke the law. Like, seriously broke the law — I’m not talking about going less than 10 mph over the speed limit. Steve Hanley wrote about it yesterday, referencing a 22-minute … [continued]
The Tesla robotaxi service is now operatihonal in Austin, Texas, but each car has a human monitorwith a kill switch. Does Waymo have that?
With the Tesla robotaxi service set to begin in Austin, Texas in just a few days, the company wants to maintain secrecy about its operation.
Tesla Model Y SUVs are about to be at the core of a technological shift. On June 12, they’ll be the company’s first driverless vehicles to launch in Texas. Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed on his social media site, X, that for “the past several days, Tesla has been testing … [continued]
I published an article the other day on flaws in the robotaxi revolution dream. It was based on a reader comment that I wanted to highlight. However, there was another reader comment I had spotted to highlight as well, and it gets even a bit more granular. Here’s that comment, … [continued]
This isn’t the first time it’s been said, and it won’t be the last, because the idea of a dramatic robotaxi revolution carries on. And, yes, I’ll admit that I was a heavy proponent of that for a long time. However, the point we’re making in this piece is that … [continued]
In the past year or so, we heard all about an internal debate at Tesla about whether to exclusively pursue robotaxis or put the company’s focus into developing a cheaper and even more mass-market model than the Model 3 and Model Y. Or, well, we thought we heard all about … [continued]
Waymo continues to expand its robotaxi service. While it’s been in San Francisco for a while, Waymo just extended its services down the region into the heart of Silicon Valley, where it all started. As of yesterday, Waymo is offering its Waymo One robotaxi services in Mountain View (the home … [continued]
During the Tesla conference call for shareholders this week, where Tesla reportedly some not entirely positive financial results (and bad financial trends), there had to be a big announcement, right? Aside from Elon Musk thinking out loud that Tesla might be worth more than the next 5 most valuable companies … [continued]
Yesterday, I wrote about Elon Musk’s long history predicting robotaxi-capable Tesla Autopilot/Full Self Driving. We then got another update from Tesla, stating: “2025 will be a seminal year in Tesla’s history as FSD (Supervised) continues to rapidly improve with the aim of ultimately exceeding human levels of safety. This will … [continued]
