Tesla moves ‘Robotaxi’ safety monitor from passenger to driver’s seat

Stock up 4%, they are finally in the taxi business 🥳

Sorry, I realize this post is kinda similar to an earlier article I posted. But this article also points out that Tesla is moving the safety monitor to the driver’s seat for all robotaxi rides in Austin, not just for rides on freeways. This is apparently due to a new Texas law that went into effect September 1st. Of course, Waymo has a permit to have no driver in the car for their robotaxis in Austin, but they have better technology than Tesla.

Wonder if this pump has anything to do with the California DMV decision coming down soon.

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Source?

The hearing ended at the end of July. The Judge in the case has 30-60 days to post her decision. So probably within the next week or two.

Does the driver get paid?

Elon Musk is a genius. He's invented the taxi. Maybe soon he can invent the railroad again too?

And after that, they'll invent horse drawn carriages! A true full self driving vehicle!

This is not a taxi. Just a car the picks you up and someone in the drivers seat gets you to your destination. The future is here! So much innovation from that old taxi service

Double digit declining auto business, no more subsidies for BEVs, solar and batteries, adding drivers to their autonomous business while real autonomous taxi business keeps adding cities supported. Sounds like a trillion dollar business to me 🤦🏻‍♂️

A 100 I say, a 100, my good sir

Well, it's a progress! But it's concerning that progress is moving to the left, not to the right. Hopefully Robotaxis are not infected by woke virus.

There's enough Elon dick riders that would volunteer for that.

RoboTaxi with no Robo? Like Uber, ha ?

Add 50-100b alone today! Pump pump… until it won‘t.

So more supervision.

You are wrong! Elon invented the Taxi with FSD (Supervised)! 🤣

It is …. An Uber!!!

Weird state of the world that I legitimately cannot tell if you’re joking or not lol.

He's going to drop battery power and move on to steam power!

Not only is there a driver, there's also a remote person monitoring the car so in effect there's TWO drivers thus making it much safer than an old fashioned taxi as long as you're not trapped in the back seat with doors that won't open because the car is on fire. So really expect 100 points to TSLA for reinventing the taxi experience by having two humans to pay. This guy is playing Milo Minderbinder-level 4D chess.

That stock is really a meme. I guess it's the flywheel effect at play

100? TSLA to $2500.

He already tried that. It didn’t work.

These drivers have the brain chip, right? Just making shit up with this guy..

Funny, I’ve always thought that linking cars together would rocket efficiency.

Next, you can drive the car yourself ! What an innovative idea.

What a vote of confidence

It's a good joke if you're joking.

When do retail investors bail forcing the billionaires to quit buying TSLA on all bad news to shore it up? When a MAGAt gets his entire family killed using FSD?

As I said, ADAS 2.

so from cyber taxi to just….taxi

That's only the start of the innovation! Soon they'll come with a crank bar which will supersede pesky digital starting methods.. a few rotations while standing in the weather is all it will take.

And now Ladies and Gentlemen…what we’ve all been waiting for! Introducing: Full Unsupervised Supervised Monitored Self Driving (Assisted) with Safety Monitor (Driver Side) This new innovation is set to change the Robotaxi game forever!

Per Grok -- Why Tesla has the driver in the driver's seat # So, Does Tesla Still Need to Report Robotaxi Data with a Driver in the Seat? **Not under the new SB 2807 permit regime.** Because Tesla now places a safety driver in the driver's seat—a human legally "in control"—the system operates under **driver-assist (Level 2)** logic, not fully autonomous (Level 4+). As such: * **They aren’t required** to obtain the new autonomous-vehicle permit. * **They aren’t bound** to provide detailed autonomous system data, minimal-risk condition protocols, or emergency response plans under SB 2807. * **Reporting requirements** associated with Level 4 operations (e.g., disengagements, crash reporting to state regulators) are **not triggered**. So were they considered L3+ back in June - August??? Tesla’s robotaxi operations in Austin launched in June—with a human monitor in the front passenger seat—thus avoiding the full-blown classification as a “driverless” or Level 4/5 autonomous system. Now, from September 1, Tesla has moved its safety monitor into the driver’s seat, effectively reclassifying the service as a Level 2 driver-assist system, where the human is considered in control. This shift lets Tesla sidestep the new autonomous-vehicle permit rules triggered by SB2807 permits and rules regulation.

it's evolving just backwards

Self-replicating engine AND self-driving

Individualized trains since he hates mass public transportation

RoboTaxi is now safer. It is as safe as a human.

Radio, on the internet

I wonder if anyone has looked into the power of Steam yet. I’m sure Elon can figure it out.

This is how the Tesla taxis work in the Las Vegas tunnels: One way traffic, no other traffic, only Tesla cars, and still a driver in each car.

Elon's safety chaperone Prevents any horseplay or fun times

As Cathie Wood and other Wall Street giants support TSLA, Elon's stock will surge on good news and BAD NEWS!

Lmao

It is a new kind of taxi. Human assisted AI taxi.

Maybe he can invent a subway that's less efficient than a car.

So kool and practical its revolutionary, move the person to the driver's seat instead of the passenger's, that's GENIUS

Musk recently said the Stock value is 80% of robotics. Seems Like he gave up the idea of Full scaled robo taxis and is on a new scam and make it big

Maybe he'll train Optimus to be taxi drivers?

A somewhat inebriated human.

>where the human is considered in control So, who gets sued when someone (inevitably) gets hurt?

Anyone who uses batteries in their electric car is a complete fool, just like using lidar and radar for self driving. That's why only smart Tesla owners own a Tesla Steam™. Granted you have to carry a trolly with a half tonne of wood in the back but its 100% renewable energy!

> Hopefully Robotaxis are not infected by woke virus Any robotaxi that doesn't try to kill someone, at least once, on every trip, is woke.

Moving forward at incredible speed

Instead of hiring drivers just have Musk declare that all shareholders who love and care about Tesla will help the company by piloting robotaxis. Millions of divorced Musk investor fanbois will appear within minutes.

Well they say he’s wicked smart

For his next trick no more cabs onto the robot Optimus prime.

Concerning.

If Tesla was serious about growth he would have just licensed the self driving and rented the cars to uber drivers

I will Sound like a broken record, but insist on repeating: we will not compare Tesla to Waymo until: 1. They have driverless cars 2. The driverless cars are available to the general public It’s still testing phase until happens.

It avoids killing itself during the ride so it's perfect for the job. And the only subproduct is compostable material!

But the robot can move an apple to the refrigerator, very slowly. Clearly the best product in human history.

Lol, the cringe tunnel. It's a tourist attraction.

Does anybody else wonder what the point is of a safety monitor if they’re in the passenger seat?

Ah, so it's just the Vegas Loop without the tunnel. Surely this will be the answer to congested traffic.

CyberHorse!

He should invent sending himself to Mars in perfect isolation

It is more profound than it sounds though.

Well, I meant it as being as safe as the human driver that now sits behind the wheel.

Tesla recreated Uber!

Shit! Maybe we can go all the way back to the early days and have a flag person out front to warn the pedestrians.

> However, SB 2807 introduces stricter oversight for truly driverless operations, including requirements for safety data reporting, first-responder interaction plans Transparency aka Tesla's kryptonite.

Somehow this will make the stock go up.

I like the mid-century modern vibe. 19th century of course.

He already did! He replaced the trains with slower moving Tesla and used a private tunnel road instead of track. So more cost and less efficiency, clearly playing 4d chess while the rest of us plebs play the regular game. Fucking get me off this ride.

Hahahaha amen!

No doubt the stock somehow went up with this backwards leap.

Sound more like "Robotaxi driver assist"

Horatios Drive?

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So basically texas said that tesla is so unsafe it needs special rules.

He ain't lidaring...

Sounds like a sustainable business model to me!

The taxi with a more expensive car and TWO people per car on the payroll.

He’s definitely wicked.

They should call it *Tesler.*

Agreed

Remember, they’re not safety drivers, they’re safety *supervisors.*

Yeah, they could call it “Tesler.”

Why stop there? He says Optimus robots or the future of the company. So I say robots pulling rickshaw's are the next big thing to replace cars.

Theres a grift going on in Nashville and they're starting to build it. The state approved it, no questions asked. The city said 'WTF are you doing?'

An apple placed in a predicable spot moved to another predictable spot. Change that apple with a glass and see if it puts it in a cabinet it has never seen before.

Who cares, no real customer are using them anyway. They got all the influencers videos they wanted with no one in the driver seat anyway. It’s all a marketing stunt since the beginning. And the product is TSLA stock.

Why use cameras when the human eye can do the same thing?? To the moon!

How about we call this new form of transportation a Taxi.

And according to Trump’s new “no tax on tips” plan you don’t have to tip them

Not like that! You broke it x(

Two words - TESLA Monorail!

But what if they disagree? I heard that two sensors are bad for making decisions…

Man, talk about ruining something by overcomplicating it ! Could just have a single driver driving a cheap car lol, now you have to have two highly trained individuals to operate one car lfmao.

To be fair he invented uber.

So calls it is lol. The world is insane.

TSLA shares are going to pop guys! Genius lol

Sooner or later even the Tesla fanboys will realise that they have been conned.

they are too far up Elon's ass to admit they have been conned

Ooohhhh! Like a real train?!?

That’s right, they aren’t being forced by authorities and regulations to have no safety drivers.

I’m sitting in the back seat of one currently in Austin, with the supervisor still in the passenger seat. When is this supposed to take effect?