Understanding why Tesla didn’t launch robotics this week. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2025/06/24/understanding-why-tesla-didnt-launch-their-robotaxi-this-week/

Cries in Elon

Oh boy… calls will print today lol…

Sounds like a good estimation of the shitshow that was delivered

If FSD is the bench mark…Robotaxi is not close to unmanned operation.

Stock up 12 points on this disastrous news.

It's because Elon Musk said it would, that's why it didn't.

"Musk claimed they were seeing “interventions” every 10,000 miles back in April, though he did not define the type of interventions. We’ve seen several minor interventions and issues in early videos from the first few thousand miles" And that is in Austin, on highly mapped roads that were selected for their simplicity, a curated, geofenced course limited to perfect weather and 18 hours of operations a day. If it's 10 cars and they are driving non-stop then that's 180 hours of operation a day. So there would have to be an average of 10000miles / 180 hours = 55 mph for all four cars to reach 10000 accumulated miles. And there is no way for 10 robo taxis to drive an average of 55 mph non-stop a whole day in an urban area. Because each stop would completely ruin this average or is Tesla claiming that the moment the guest buckles up they accelerate to >60mph in 3 seconds and race through the city to their destination with a 2 second stop?!?! Therefore the 10000 miles intervention statistics is a complete lie.

Excellent article thanks for sharing

They should get the robots to drive the “robo” taxi. Checkmate 🧠

The Starlink antenna and receiver in the top of the trunk door glass gives the game away, as well as the onboard safety guy the car is also being remotely controlled via a starlink comms link.

👍🏻problem solved 🤪

Oh good gods. “Sunday’s story about how Tesla Missed their Robotaxi launch goal raised a lot of reader questions, because many, including the stock market--**which sent Tesla stock up as much as 10%**--got the impression that they did.”

He watches 10,000 cars go 1 mile before an intervention pops up.

I mean… is anyone wondering? I think I can save you the trouble. It’s not ready.

Musk announces fusion reactor 2 weeks away, stock explodes.

The article makes an interesting point about Tesla and how they approach things. It points out that they still have what is really just a safety driver, but in the passenger seat, with a button to hit the brakes if needed. And obviously the ability to then shift over to drive for a moment if needed after stopping. Which for any other company, would mean they'd just... leave the driver in the driver seat for these tests. There's no reason to arbitrarily move the safety driver to the passenger seat. Other than appearance. So it points out that they are making a pretty big choice to put the safety driver in the passenger seat, and the ONLY reason is so they can pretend it's a step forward when it's really not. It's optics and nothing more.

>If all that seems pretty silly, it is. This is not at all the way to do this. There’s no reason to do it that way rather than just put the person behind the wheel. No reason except how it looks.  It's smoke, mirror and Enron all the way down...

MUCK -- Massive Unscheduled Crashes, Kids.

Tesler's market just doubled, stock price up!