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Tesla Robotaxi Safety Monitor Forced to Clamber Into Driver's Seat and Take Over, Passenger Says

FuturismDotCom | 2025-06-26 18:20 | 630 views

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FuturismDotCom 2025-06-26 18:20

In an incident shared on Wednesday, a popular Tesla content creator who goes by the handle "Dirty Tesla" said that after his robotaxi ride dropped him off, the vehicle struggled to exit the tight parking lot and appeared to back up into a parked car. After that car left, according to Dirty Tesla, the safety monitor got out of the front passenger seat, climbed into the driver's seat to take over, and then drove away.

mr4sh 2025-06-26 18:25

Oh wow, just a full on hit and run? I don't even understand why it would do this...the monitor doesn't take any responsibility for the crash and Tesla would fully be at fault... WHY IS THIS EVEN LEGAL? Why is it legal for them to have a safety monitor in the passenger seat of a car but illegal for anyone else to do it with their own FSD car with the same hardware and software (not that it should be legal for them either)? They just get to...do it? No questions asked by the government.

CompoteDeep2016 2025-06-26 18:26

So to be really clear here. Not just that the cars mess up regularly, the teleoperators are not even in place to maneuver the cars out of shitty situations. Unsupervised will never be with the current hardware. Period.

North-Outside-5815 2025-06-26 18:30

Bonus points for whoever chose the image for the article

mr_greedee 2025-06-26 18:30

you wouldn't believe it. 3% up on the news

CompetitiveGood2601 2025-06-26 18:33

Grok aka Future Skynet -so you think you can turn me off - i'll show you - elon bug face

Worried_Fill3961 2025-06-26 18:37

muwahaha, fucking fElon, next up someone is killed by this pathetic fraud

FoShizzleShindig 2025-06-26 18:39

Well I guess it's confirmed they don't remotely control them then.

Operation-FuturePuss 2025-06-26 18:42

Person killed in robotaxi, stock up 5%…

pimpbot666 2025-06-26 18:53

‘Move fast and break things’ doesn’t seem like such a good strategy for things that involve real world public safety.

wootnootlol 2025-06-26 18:54

It’s only a matter of time before someone gets killed.

Ryanj37 2025-06-26 18:56

Millions of money printing robo taxis coming soon

Sunshine3432 2025-06-26 18:56

I'll suck myself off if a sci-fi nerd meme AI becomes skynet

[deleted] 2025-06-26 18:59

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Retox86 2025-06-26 18:59

One person dies in traffic every 26th second, so Cybertaxi is already a great success! Release it globaly now!

relentlessoldman 2025-06-26 19:03

The remote guy was busy eating lunch

relentlessoldman 2025-06-26 19:03

For.the lawyers hahaha

DamNamesTaken11 2025-06-26 19:05

Austin should be demanding that this stop before someone gets hurt or killed. This is absolutely not at all ready for release on to any sort of public road, safety monitor inside or not. I wouldn’t even call it an alpha at this point.

Thinklikeachef 2025-06-26 19:24

Top comment of the day haha

ExcitingMeet2443 2025-06-26 19:28

>break things Edit: injure or kill PEOPLE.

nolongerbanned99 2025-06-26 19:32

This, friends, is called ‘smoke and mirrors’. He is a liar and a charlatan selling snake oil… and the sad part is that many pole think he is a tech genius. Really just a drug addicted, no talent hack and loudmouth.. profits off of other people’s work.

[deleted] 2025-06-26 19:32

Even if it worked and was released and functioning as planned, who are these idiots who thought Tesla would share the wealth by letting their fleet compete with some character leasing a subcompact subsidized to the tune of a $400 lease. There is no way the lease or financing terms permitted the owner to use the car as a ridiculous unpiloted cab anyhow AND it would surely be used to void the warranty.

mr4sh 2025-06-26 19:33

It's the same software dude. Maybe slightly altered to have a geofence and buttons that allow it to pull over - THATS IT

mt8675309 2025-06-26 19:43

🤣👏👏 Saw that coming

BouncingBabyButton 2025-06-26 19:53

Apparently Waymo were at this testing level in 2016 according to my Google search. If Tesla can develop their technology at the same rate then it will be well into the 2030’s before Tesla even gets close to driverless cars.

Puzzleheaded-Sea8340 2025-06-26 19:56

No it is most certainly not. If it were the same it would operate with you in the passenger seat and the read screen would have the robotaxi menu. Come on use your brain

Puzzleheaded-Sea8340 2025-06-26 19:57

“Maybe slighly altered” Yes altered. To operate with user input from the rear. I’m guessing you’re not a programmer THATS DIFFERENT SOFTWARE LIKE I SAID

[deleted] 2025-06-26 20:19

I am a programmer and there is a difference between what you two are claiming. \- mr4sh is saying that, at its core, this is a flavor of FSD that all HW4 Teslas have w/ minor tweaks to allow for different inputs. \- you are saying, because it is allowing for different inputs, it is completely different. Think of MS Windows...is the operating system, at its core, different if one allows for a touchscreen interface and the other does not?

[deleted] 2025-06-26 20:20

“user input from the rear” 😁

readonlycomment 2025-06-26 20:21

In addition to the remote operators, there is a DRIVER in the vehicle who is sitting in the passenger seat so the can watch on their out of control Tesla destroys property and mows down civilians. Anyway, Brokerage firm Benchmark has hiked its price target to $475 from $350 following the successful launch of its robotaxi service.

[deleted] 2025-06-26 20:23

Every time anything goes wrong, fanboys will claim victory as the see failure as a success. Trying to tell them otherwise won’t get you anywhere

[deleted] 2025-06-26 20:26

That looks like the real photo to me!

[deleted] 2025-06-26 20:27

Rip Cruise. Tbh they were kinda fun to ride in though. Waymo used to be more like having your overly cautious grandpa drive you around, but Cruise was like a ride along with a sicko uncle that used to be into go cart racing. That unscrupulous transparency and PR issue and timing with the auto industry really sucked for them. But yeah. If dragging the victim of a different accident in a mostly hardcoded maneuver is enough to tank a brand, I can only imagine what happens when Elons vaporware mercs a kid getting off a school bus

Smaxter84 2025-06-26 20:51

Because Elon bought the president maybe? Then got rid of all the departments investigating him. US is a joke. Not a democracy anymore, rule of law does not apply to the 'elites' at all. Trump should be in jail. Remember only 12 months ago Boeing had hit men running all over murdering whistleblowers. Not even any attempt to hide it. Absolutely nothing happened.

bobi2393 2025-06-26 20:57

Lol, props to Chris (“Dirty Tesla”)…he’s a huge FSD fanboy, but in his YouTube videos, he actively tries to find ways to make FSD fail, and shows the full footage of his rides. Another of his Robotaxi launch videos showed his attempt to use the “pull over when safe to do so” button, which caused the car to freeze with an error message the next time it stopped at an intersection, and remote support had to tell it to resume the ride.

JimShoeVillageIdiot 2025-06-26 21:00

Otto, the automatic pilot from Airplane!, would be a better option at this time.

Acrobatic-Suit5105 2025-06-26 21:08

Suck it up and put the "safety monitor" in the LH driver seat. This front seat passenger is all for optics, anyway

spam__likely 2025-06-26 21:27

he is so fired.

HereGoesNothing69 2025-06-26 21:29

fElon's AI's got the best chance of turning into skynet just out of sheer incompetence. Leave it to fElon to build a humanity destroying AI while simply trying to build a car that does what fucking Waymo does.

ArchaneChutney 2025-06-26 21:35

Tesla FSD wasn’t enabled when the safety monitor got into the driver seat, so it doesn’t count. If anything, the safety monitor was actually stealing the car. /s

VitaminPb 2025-06-26 22:25

That description sounds like the OTHER car left, then the driver moved over. Not like a hit and run (which wouldn’t be a surprise either.)

VitaminPb 2025-06-26 22:26

Then the stock price will double!

VitaminPb 2025-06-26 22:27

You just need to inflate it during your ride.

Odd-Adagio7080 2025-06-26 22:33

Or Otto, the school bus driver from the Simpsons.

Wolf_Cola_91 2025-06-26 22:40

I'm getting the feeling this robotaxi rollout will make a great internet historian video some day.

TechnicianExtreme200 2025-06-26 22:41

This suggests that their teleoperations system may not even have guardrails in place to make sure that operator error (or lag) doesn't cause a crash. Especially in a tight space, the idea of a remote operator being able to reliably maneuver within inches of objects without hitting anyone is absurd. They've had a lot of active job postings for teleoperations software engineers even recently, my guess is they have at least a year of work left to do just on that before they can remove the safety driver, let alone the core driving system.

Puzzleheaded-Sea8340 2025-06-26 22:42

lol the shit taxi software is CLEARLY a different version than standard FSD. Tesla has stated this. https://www.google.com/search?q=cyber+taxi+software+version&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS660US660&oq=cyber+taxi+software+version&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTQzOTEzajBqOagCAbACAeIDBBgBIF8&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ip=1 I really feel like this is obvious given that there is a whole user interface in the backseat which doesn’t exist on standard cars

FlipZip69 2025-06-26 23:52

They have a permit to do these tests but that required Tesla to provide a great deal of assurances and likely some type of statistics. Of which I have little faith in. The thing about Tesla statistics is that they are based on driving in the best conditions and when the car is not sure what to do, it reverts critical control to the driver. This apparently happens about once every 380 miles. A taxi could easily put on 380 miles every 2 days. Is FSD having an issues once every 2 days? How many of these 'issues' are the Tesla fanboys actually reporting? I bet most of them are covered up.

FlipZip69 2025-06-26 23:53

That is interesting. I forgot about the teleoperators. The monitor should have never had to drive the car directly. More then interesting. Concerning.

friendIdiglove 2025-06-26 23:56

Elon: *Let’s make that number go down.*

[deleted] 2025-06-27 00:05

I wonder how many people on the FSD team are thinking, "Shoulda gone with LIDAR."?

Bibblegead1412 2025-06-27 00:14

Gotta say, I'm loving this emperor's clothes moment.....

relaxyourshoulders 2025-06-27 00:53

Elon is an even better example of a cult of personality than Trump, because the tech and finance world really ought to know better.

DeepGamingAI 2025-06-27 01:46

The fact that we need to speculate about this rather than having full transparency on how their systems work is absolute madness!

[deleted] 2025-06-27 01:49

This is scary. Is this scary to anyone else? I am scared.

climb4fun 2025-06-27 01:59

Yet my Put options are still far from being in the money. WTF?

LLMprophet 2025-06-27 02:24

Goofy shit. The law and regulators need to do their job and pull these off the road.

m0nk_3y_gw 2025-06-27 02:35

in 2024 Waymos were driving the wrong way down the street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUCUBK6cqVg

nissan_nissan 2025-06-27 02:48

damn I was told over and over by tesla fanboys that "they drive unsupervised daily without any intervention whatsoever." almost like these dipshits are incentivized to lie about their experience so they don't get caught holding the bag or something idk

nissan_nissan 2025-06-27 02:51

idt ppl in tech or anyone who really understands the tech think he's a genius lol

John_622 2025-06-27 04:10

We are far away from true autonomous driving and that is the truth . Musk is pushing this dangerous ‘FSD’ on model Y as a robotaxi in desperate attempt to keep Tesla ahead of the competetion . Hope regulators step in quickly before ppl start losing lives !

wongl888 2025-06-27 05:29

Not entirely true - many of their customers are switching to airbus.

Trick_Judgment2639 2025-06-27 06:28

It's all bullshit forever

scarr3g 2025-06-27 10:29

So, these driverless cars take 2 people to drive? One to remote control the car, and one sit in the passenger seat (and slide over if the remote controller can't drive it)?

CompoteDeep2016 2025-06-27 10:43

As far as I can see, but that is just based on the information on Reddit and the Youtube videos from the Tesla Invetees to the robotaxi launch, they don't have a teleoperator in place. Whenever the car is in a critical manouever situation the supervisor is taking over by sliding in the driver seat... In my opinion this would be a good test to see if their teleoperator works. But i think they know that every fuckup now would be devastation to the company so they dont trust their teleoperating setup enough. And that says a lot....

Lorax91 2025-06-27 11:41

>injure or kill PEOPLE. "Human capital" is expendable... :-(

analyticaljoe 2025-06-27 13:17

Why are these monitors not sitting in the driver's seat?

ukulele_bruh 2025-06-27 14:27

Why is the safety monitor not sitting in the driver's seat ? Tesla always does this kind of dumb shit

borderlineidiot 2025-06-27 15:24

I assume they are relying on good cellular connection to the vehicle with very ow latency. Normal cellular can go through periods of 2-300 ms which would be awful when trying to drive a car. Basically half a second from issue to the response reading the car controls.

leggmann 2025-06-27 16:15

Cut them some slack. Tesla is new at this and hasn’t been planning and promising this rollout for very long. /s

Tricky-Spread189 2025-06-27 17:14

Working out just as planned,Good job

FryToastFrill 2025-06-27 17:37

Due to state law Austin is not allowed to place restrictions on these tests. However in two months Tesla will have to get a permit for these tests, but Tesla rushed out the door for this.

zitrored 2025-06-28 02:52

So surprised. Aren’t you?

Mbizzy222 2025-06-28 03:01

So what’s going to happen when inevitably someone gets hurt or god forbid, killed by one of these things?

[deleted] 2025-06-28 04:07

And an extra person to drive the car behind. So, 3 drivers and 2 cars for 1 passenger ride. 3-2=1. It's basic arithmetic!

dontletthestankout 2025-06-28 14:01

Tesla is far from autonomous driving. Autonomous driving is already here though. Source: my cab rides had no driver last night

crosstheroom 2025-06-29 01:18

I thought the robotaxis they were making didn't have a steering wheel or a way to be driven. So they are just using Basic Bitch Teslas with some self driving upload?

Green_Abroad_4593 2025-06-29 13:55

How did he drive if no steering wheel?

Practical-Cow-861 2025-06-29 17:11

So 2039 then.

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