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Robotaxi Drives Double the Speed Limit, Hits Speed Bumps at Full Speed… Tesla Influencers Describe It as "Excellent."

IcyHowl4540 | 2025-06-24 21:45 | 1085 views

The Robotaxi driving at twice the speed limit is interesting. But I think the analysis of the influencer-based early rollout, the disinformation on X, I think that is the more interesting part that really isn't getting enough attention. Journalists are credulously describing early rider feedback as positive, but they're often failing to mention that the early riders are *selected because they are reliably positive Tesla influencers,* typically with undisclosed financial links to the company. Eventually, they will run out of influencers taking 12 rides a day to create videos. Then, actual Austin TX commuters will ride the taxis, and I guess they'll vote with dollars on whether or not the Robotaxis feel safe.

Comments (115)
CompoteDeep2016 2025-06-24 21:48

And I am looking forward to what they actually gonna charge. But I'd prefer it being shut down by some agency

neromoneon 2025-06-24 21:50

There is a reason why they are doing it in Texas…

CompoteDeep2016 2025-06-24 21:53

Yeah I just hope muskrat might have lost support from Trump and the agencies can go after him. I can imagine there are some people really motivated now to go after musk and all his shit after what he did to the agencies with doge. He didn't make friends there. I'd do fuckin extra hours for free if they would let me investigate his companies

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-24 21:55

Everything is bigger in Texas... But especially the political donations. I'm sure no one forgets Elon maxing out his donation in his own name to Senator Cornyn (formerly state attorney general) and various other officials.

AndSoISaysToTheGuy 2025-06-24 22:02

The porn star "safety monitor" at the end gave me a chuckle.

xMagnis 2025-06-24 22:05

NHTSA is only investigating the June 22 issues with Robotaxi because someone videoed them and others talked about it. You can bet Tesla didn't report the lane violations, and they are likely under no need to report them; after all there was no crash. But NHTSA is concerned about bad driving as well. So perhaps they need to investigate by taking some trips on Robotaxi, following them, or mandating a report for every violation of traffic laws.

CompoteDeep2016 2025-06-24 22:08

Didn't know about that. Such a failed democracy, the USA are. Fuck it. Probably needs a real accident. Sadly people will get hurt first, otherwise nobody will shut it down

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-24 22:16

Ironically, the "give invitations to our online influencer base" play is backfiring... because those influencers make money by the click or minute-viewed, and so they need to create TONS of video content. They are posting EVERYTHING. No amount of positive narration makes traffic violations into non-traffic violations.

Particular-Break-205 2025-06-24 22:25

Tesla fans: “why would they put a speed bump there?”

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-24 22:26

"grok, is this true?"

nolongerbanned99 2025-06-24 22:26

Cheering on a soulless company that has no regard for public safety …people have died in these cars.

generally_unsuitable 2025-06-24 22:29

They were all in love with dyin'?

Tim-in-CA 2025-06-24 22:32

So paid shills say it’s all good. I’ll bet that there are Ts and Cs that state that regular riders won’t be able to post videos or comment publicly without fear of litigation from Tesler. Unfortunately someone is going to die after this is open to the public

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-24 22:34

It's shaky enough that I'm not sure it'll make it to the "open to public" part before causing a death.

[deleted] 2025-06-24 22:40

Cults are fun!

dsmith422 2025-06-24 22:45

I think Lieutenant Governor Paxton is expected to primary Cornyn.

Super-Admiral 2025-06-24 22:45

Of course they do. The brainwash is complete. Or else, if any of those Tesla influencers are even real or not paid for by Elon Musk.

manicdan 2025-06-24 22:54

Those issues were there a year ago when they gave me a month of free FSD. If I let it do it's thing in my neighborhood it would have killed someone or their dog. My roads are 15, not 45, and we have 5mph bumps it can't see. Took all of 20ft for my test drive to laugh at how bad things were back then.

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-24 22:57

I took a single turn out of a Tesla dealership, activated FSD, and was like "OH DEFINITELY NOT" and took control after maybe 2 stop lights. It... cannot... reliably... *see.* The visualization on the center console shows you what it is seeing, and it was missing vehicles and lane lines all over the place. If I wanted to drive that badly, I would shotgun a bottle of wine and then drive myself.

techbunnyboy 2025-06-24 22:57

Tesler can have no fault! Austin is flawed. Roads are flawed. Infrastructure is flawed. /s

zombieda 2025-06-24 23:00

Influencer? You mean Paid Shill.

MochingPet 2025-06-24 23:02

> Tesla Influencers Describe It as "Excellent." it's because of the Kool-Aid !

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-24 23:05

"this koolaid tastes AWESOME - i didn't know it even came in almond flavor!"

meritocrap 2025-06-24 23:05

Farzad is a typical Elong soy boy beta doosh. Why would you imagine he will have unbiased opinion?

bluethunder82 2025-06-24 23:15

Nice.

Belgarablue 2025-06-24 23:24

Yes.. Texas is fine with road murder, and toxic waste/debris falling down on citizens (SpaceX) as long as Abbot and his cronies get bribed.

ExcitingMeet2443 2025-06-24 23:26

Maybe they didn't *notice* the speed limits and speed bumps when they mapped out the trial area?

nissan_nissan 2025-06-24 23:28

Lol i don’t think tesla is actually going to roll it out to the general public anytime soon

PossibleCash6092 2025-06-24 23:32

Including the amount of school children that it’s run over

AveragePegasus 2025-06-24 23:45

im pretty sure at this point they could hurt somebody badly or kill them and they would still get away with it.

potatodrinker 2025-06-24 23:46

Influencers just don't want to be sued by the big manchild

Own-Opinion-2494 2025-06-24 23:48

Still better than that dragon space ship. Everything Elon touches turns to shit now. Too much Trump time

ecplectico 2025-06-24 23:49

The bribes seem to be bigger in Florida, frankly.

greggobbard 2025-06-24 23:57

Concerning

Spillz-2011 2025-06-25 00:10

Why would they let actual people ride? Just string it along until September 1 then say the regulators shut them down. As long as they have no horrible accidents before then the stock keeps its value.

Sanpaku 2025-06-25 00:11

The introductory rate for any distance is: **$4.20** Source: reported on Bloomberg radio yesterday.

skredditt 2025-06-25 00:36

Where you are allowed to die of anything except marijuana for some reason.

motorcycleZEN 2025-06-25 00:46

If a Robotaxi commits an illegal manoeuvre that would normally result in a person getting a ticket - who is getting the fine now? Tesla? Elon? The safety driver? The rider? Do they have demerit points in Texas? How many can Robotaxi accumulate before its licence is suspended? I guess this is true for Waymo too. I’m genuinely curious.

kveggie1 2025-06-25 00:55

wow, how these Elmo Bros talk. Are they real? "fix this, fix that".... Elmo delivered a prototype product again.

katsudon8899 2025-06-25 00:55

Looking into it

Solopist112 2025-06-25 01:00

I'm not convinced these cars aren't being driven remotely.

friendIdiglove 2025-06-25 01:23

And this is *with* an operator in the car. Are they driving HAL9000? Or is the AI based on Christine?

friendIdiglove 2025-06-25 01:28

They were doing it in Texas … *I don’t mind the sun sometimes* *The images don’t show* *I can’t see with my sensors* *And won’t stay on the road*

Roadgoddess 2025-06-25 01:59

Yeah, somebody posted a video from a couple of influencers who were both on their third ride and when the Robo taxi went to drop them off, it stopped with half the car hanging out into the intersection. And they responded of course that it was all great and fine.These guys are crazy.

CaptainHarryStinkbox 2025-06-25 02:03

I’m hoping Tesla is financially insolvent and gone into receivership at that point, with Elon (forcefully) being sent back to South Africa for breaking immigration laws as a student, and then again lying about it when he became a citizen. Maybe that’s why he’s changed his tune- Old Orangehole may have threatened to revoke his citizenship.

spicybright 2025-06-25 02:18

Them Musk boys are at it again!

spicybright 2025-06-25 02:20

Oh come on, catching air from a speed bump in a car you don't own is awesome!

[deleted] 2025-06-25 02:20

So they should test in Australia then, because Texas is fucking tiny.

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-25 02:44

I think I saw that video -- they were SO relaxed getting out of a taxi, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of an intersection. Totally bananas. I would be furious if an Uber dropped me off \*in\* an intersection.

CloseToMyActualName 2025-06-25 03:13

The marvel is not that *the bear dances well*, but that the bear dances at all.

chat-lu 2025-06-25 03:34

> what they actually gonna charge Walls, wildlife, other cars, pedestrians… There is nothing it won’t charge at full speed.

charlesleestewart 2025-06-25 04:09

Hey isn't this video the same fanboys from the day before that were dropped off at a very odd location of an intersection, and the robotaxi just stood there for about half a minute afterwards with its tail sticking out into a lane of the oncoming traffic? To those gentlemen, I say keep these coming! You are the media 😛

BeenThere11 2025-06-25 04:10

Trashla when contacted tweeted at 4 20 am in the night It just a bump in pur journey

habfranco 2025-06-25 04:26

“Speed bumps are woke”

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adrianjfaria 2025-06-25 05:09

bait used to be believable

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-25 05:12

If you need to make a political argument to sell a taxi service, you probably don't have a very good taxi service.

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whatisthisnowwhat1 2025-06-25 05:30

>The point is Tesla has a neuronet that is able to learn from its mistakes and that means no Tesla will ever make the same mistake again once it is has been corrected lol >"Many times, when the driver went past the crash location in the left lane, the Tesla would steer left toward the gore point area and he would have to manually take control to stay within the left lane," the NTSB documents stated. >"The family explained that it happened so often that he had told both his brother and his wife about the problem," it added. >The man even attempted to show his family how the car steered left when they passed the location once, the documents said. They apparently have a "neuronet"(lol) that is as retarded as you are.

Withnail2019 2025-06-25 05:35

I can't believe this is being treated as a real product launch when it's obviously just fraud.

Withnail2019 2025-06-25 05:38

>You people just don't like progress This is a scam not progress.

ankercrank 2025-06-25 06:13

No more koolaid for this guy

imadork1970 2025-06-25 06:43

Elongobblers

jice 2025-06-25 06:44

Real question: if a cop catch a robotaxi speeding, who pays the fine?

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-25 06:50

Tesla! There's a safety operator in the vehicle, so it's not even too hard. Watching Waymos get fined is sort of funny by comparison.

NinjaN-SWE 2025-06-25 06:59

Sure, but Waymo has been dancing their ass off for years. That they have more sensors to do it doesn't make it less impressive. I've heard so many people say "oh but you can buy the same Model Y and it will be able to robotaxi, you can't buy a Waymo car" But like really? Even if Tesla makes FSD actually work on their current Model Y, Juniper (which is a humongous IF). It's not like they couldn't sell the Waymo car. It's obviously street legal, and it can be manually driven. What exactly is impressive in that? If anything it's a huge gamble because if they learn that they need Z new hardware to shore up a limitation/problem this test uncovers then no current Tesla will ever get real FSD without a retrofit, and that is assuming it could be retrofit.

ravenrawen 2025-06-25 07:08

He is a fkn child.

Roadgoddess 2025-06-25 07:15

Yup, the best part was afterwards then the Tesla didn’t move even though there was space for it and it looks like the “ chaperone” had to contact support to get the vehicle to get moving again.

Roadgoddess 2025-06-25 07:18

Well, in my understanding is they use totally different types of sensors which is why Waymos successfully stop and don’t run into things whereas FSD doesn’t always make the correct decisions and runs into an object objects. I think a lot of these Tesla nuts are super excited because they think that they’re going to be able to rent their Teslas out as taxis in between when there’s no way they’ll ever be deemed safe enough

MoleMoustache 2025-06-25 07:18

You can say fucking on the internet

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Surviverino 2025-06-25 07:53

Tesla is far from a leader in AI and robotics lmao. Also isn't their solar division basically dead at this point?

vanwiekt 2025-06-25 08:36

You say potato, I say potayto…

Krieg 2025-06-25 08:49

$4.20 flat rate.

atpplk 2025-06-25 09:05

Eiffel tower is 330 meters high and was built in 1889. Yet in 2023 Tesla can't assemble steel plates and we're supposed to believe they have a "neuronet". Big laugh

CompoteDeep2016 2025-06-25 09:44

Yes right now. But that is never gonna be the real price. Its impossible to charge 4.20$ for a 50 mile ride once its open to public. It just shows that they have absolutely no clue of pricing.

Ill-Experience-2132 2025-06-25 10:51

Nonsense! Everything is computer!

amahendra 2025-06-25 11:14

Elon fanboys are different kind of breed.

beren12 2025-06-25 12:02

Not only that, but there’s also too many influencers. I don’t mind if they want to thin their own Herd.

beren12 2025-06-25 12:03

Hey man, even a flatworm has one

nolongerbanned99 2025-06-25 12:27

Saving the world. Good one.

Geritas 2025-06-25 13:10

There is this guy on YouTube his name is AIDriver or something. God, he is so insufferable in his condescending way of speaking and glazing over Tesla, it is literally insane.

RobFloridaMan 2025-06-25 13:27

You can say it on live TV if you’re the president

gwenver 2025-06-25 14:00

Elon is a lying scumbag. Only a sucker would believe his hype now. Go reflect on that.

razor_train 2025-06-25 14:09

I'd suspect that with Trump's short attention span he's already mostly forgotten about Musk and is focused on simultaneously destroying Iran and pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize for not going to war with Iran. Musk had ample time to install his flavor of lackeys in various positions that will feign allegiance to Trump and simply further Musk's goals.

kiefferbp 2025-06-25 14:58

>The visualization on the center console shows you what it is seeing This isn't true.

sffunfun 2025-06-25 14:59

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kiefferbp 2025-06-25 15:00

You can be impressed with both Tesla and Waymo. This isn't politics or a football game.

CompoteDeep2016 2025-06-25 15:01

Dude, it's called puts on the stock. A regular crash will be - 10% A crash with injuries or pedestrian involved - 20% A fatality where the robotaxi is responsible for the crash - 30% if you really want to gamble on stuff like that is up to you my friend

NinjaN-SWE 2025-06-25 15:20

Absolutely, it's just strange being marvelled at something that we've seen done for years. I'm not impressed by Tesla here. I was 5 or so years ago but really feel they've squandered their advantage and now I see nothing of substance, only marketing and hype.

rocketonmybarge 2025-06-25 15:23

Do we have a link to original video? If it was done on Sunday, that is not a school day so the lights would not be flashing.

demonicbullet 2025-06-25 15:37

Hey I'll have you know the eiffel tower was built by hand, super inefficient, teslers are mostly mass produced by machines, super efficient, it's progress you Libby's wouldn't understand */S*

sffunfun 2025-06-25 16:07

Reddit deleted my comment lmao

CompoteDeep2016 2025-06-25 16:12

Weird, happens to me sometimes as well. I even got banned for spreading hatred when I criticized tesla. The I opened a ticket saying this is impossible and then the ban was released again.  Really fuckin weird stuff going on

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-25 18:45

I've had this happen to me, too! Talking about pretty anodyne car safety stuff, post locked tighter than if I had sworn allegiance to a terror group. It was about a Tesla vehicle, of course.

danasf 2025-06-25 18:46

Lol you meant +10%, +20%... I've thought about puts ahead of several hugely negative tesla stories and thankfully I haven't because the stock went UP every single time. Its the most irrational stock I've ever seen, so... Yeah. Maybe place puts if they are about to announce record profits? It's opposite world is tesla stock land

SupahCharged 2025-06-25 19:17

Maybe there's a reason they rolled this out in the summer with far fewer school buses in the mix...hmm

whatisthisnowwhat1 2025-06-25 20:14

what is a neruonet? (for before you answer, it's the wrong word.....)

_DuranDuran_ 2025-06-25 20:16

And also payouts for injuries … Ken Paxton got them cut, after he got his huge payout for his injuries, of course.

Dreamerlax 2025-06-26 00:44

Something...something. White genocide in South Africa.

Bolt986 2025-06-26 01:12

Yeah, I believe it does in fact have a lot better information but the visualization doesn't help with consumer confidence. It would be better to show nothing than a render that is constantly incorrect.

l0c0pez 2025-06-26 01:56

Ahh yes progress the ultimate concern of conservatives

justthegrimm 2025-06-26 07:53

Some folks will say anything for money.

Desperate-Climate960 2025-06-26 14:16

Robotaxi is one serious incident away from being shut down. Any day now…

[deleted] 2025-06-26 17:36

I'm so curious what you said... short tesla??

[deleted] 2025-06-26 17:39

They also aren't leaders in battery production like CATL, Panasonic, LG and BYD.

[deleted] 2025-06-26 17:45

Are you a bot?

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-26 18:47

No? Are you?

OpeningAd447 2025-06-27 03:14

They didn’t even have to pay extra for the Dukes of Hazzard experience

[deleted] 2025-06-28 03:35

Sorry, intended that for lazy operation above.... wild stuff. Love the post!

TyroneSwoopes 2025-06-28 13:08

Paxton is the AG. Dan Patrick is the lieutenant governor

IcyHowl4540 2025-06-30 07:38

Oh no worries! :> We live in strange times

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