Tesla Stock Surges as It Starts Offering Robotaxi Rides in Austin with No Safety Monitor - TipRanks.com

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Further research suggests there is a chase car, which is what I expected. Totally unscalable.

Even if there's no chase car and it's actually unsupervised, remember this is happening in a very tiny extraordinarily highly validated area, where they've been mapping and dealing with any issues for a full year now. This is not evidence that this can scale outside of their heavily validated service area.

FOMO. It's pumping Tesla like crazy and then nobody wants to sell underpriced, because there pool of potential buyers is so small.

I can see you starving to death outside a grocery store because you couldn’t foresee that the doors would open for you.

Everything is about juicing the stock. Every milestone is just for them to get that sweet sweet liquidity

Wow that’s like hundreds of dollars of revenue

Perfect timing before a winter storm, we'll see what happens

I can't wait for the ultimate lawsuits to bankrupt the company and leave every single sycophant investor holding the bags.

That's the craziest thing about this, even nationwide robotaxi coverage does not generate profit on the level of making/selling cars...which obviously their P/E does not support already. Not to mention they've promised owners the ability to take that revenue from them with their personal vehicles as robotaxis. So best case cannibalism worst case class action.

HOW HAS THIS NOT BEEN PRICED IN SINCE 2020 ?! How's a stock go up because of hype then go up again when a speck of that hype becomes reality

Tesla doing more Headline engineering.

This won’t well

They could definitely scale it a few more blocks though… maybe.

NOOOO. Elmo would never do anything like that, he's an honest man and Tesla to the moon! Look at his track record!!! NYC to LA summon was done 10 years ago - oh, wait. It still hasn't happened! FSD also released 10 years ago - oh, wait. It's supervised and has killed many customers! Well Tesla is still the safest brand around - oh, wait. It disables door locks and traps you inside to burn to death in a crash, whoops! Roadster with rocket motors coming in '22 - oh, wait. It's delayed indefinitely AND no refunds! Hmmm, maybe he's not the massive genius people think he is and Tesla is really just a meme stock supported by suckers and fanboi's who drool at his every word? Nah. That couldn't be it

When there's an accident, the stock will go up more because now they have better crash data so they can avoid the next one.

Thanks to an irreponsible press who still report on what they have to say despite constant lies.

Bad idea to harm your customers, especially when that harm is permanent.

Bk is inevitable here. House of cards from many perspectives while other automakers are getting better in these areas.

Absolutely. Time to buy out of the money puts again. It’s like printing money.

"Tesla Stock Surges" because Felon Husk announces yet another impossible thing, that Morons will suck up. Car sales down worldwide, yet morons that "believe" will pump up the stock to yet more insane amounts. Kind of like the USA (and Husk) keep supporting a convicted Felon, pedophile, rapist, murdering, dementia ridden, narcissistic, syphillitic pile of Garbage as President.

They will never do what Waymo is doing with out better equipment on board.

Gotta throw something out there before earnings on 1/28...

Dead men don't talk, so Elmo has that going for him

Yeah, I live in Austin and I'm not excited about this development.

That’s why the doors don’t open after a crash and the car self incinerates.

Short TSLA!

I promise you no one buying Tesla stock knows what p/e means

Another genius, 5D chess move by our soon-to-be trillionaire overlord

I do not understand this stock.

The ultimate burn bag for secrets. Perhaps we are looking at the government sales wrong.

They are going to need a bigger penise picture.

Chase car full of ICE to get rid of any evidence of a wreck

But still won't focus on the Epstein files. I would think that would be the real story.

But at least we are protecting the people in the Epstein files from consequences while going to war with Europe over a nearly worthless desolate chunk of land.

And I don't care if there are prominent Democrats in the files... Release them all, and jailed every child rapist/trafficker.

Tat-um, da, tum, dumb. StinkyMusk has his way with customers. When did he say he's rocketing to Mars and that he'll live there? Couldn’t come soon enough. Oh, maybe he’s already there, and a flaying Optimus is impersonating him here.

He has to make up for the huge money the diners were expected to bring in in epic bacon

"no evidence" lol you can go test FSD for yourself at any dealership in the US and see that it can handle nearly any situation at this point. It's working and it's scalable. Try the model Y. I did and it was amazingly smooth and didn't have to intervene once. The only issue I encountered was that it would occasionally park in the wrong parking lot near the intended destination. They're obviously still working some of the navigation kinks out since the taxi service is brand new. But In a few months time the service will be in every major city and will be safer than distracted, drunk, sleep deprived, road raging human drivers.

Praise Elon? Edit: it’d explain why every other company has a p/e, they all owe everything to him as the modern day Thomas Edison

It sounds closer to a tiny trackless tram.

And how many crashes will be caused by the nazicabs?

They are reporting earnings next Wednesday. It will likely be a bloodbath. They need this to pump TSLA past next week's losses.

Good to hear all the honesty here. In other forums there are people still insisting he is a genius

How long before the first victim?

To be re-branded DeathTraps.com

FSD will never go nationwide because it can’t operate in inclement weather. There’s a reason why Tesla and Waymo are operating in fair weather cities - computer vision doesn’t work if the computer can’t see anything.

just make it elon shaped, he is the biggest dick of them all.

i think its "Full Self Dying"

I was just returning home and a blizzard appeared suddenly. As I was pushing my daughter's wheelchair through the snow, my mind wandered to what would happen to a robotaxi in that situation. Has anyone ever tried testing their system in snow?

The grift and detachment from reality worsens! More at 11

why hasn't CNBC asked kathy Wood these questions?

Earnings are next week. They needed a pre pump of the stock before the puffery in the earnings report that is short of last year.

It’s sort of like a meme stock.

Do not worry. Once he can borrow agesnt 1 trillion in space x stock, he will float Tesla for another 10 years of missed deadlines and broken promises.

After reading the first paragraph of the article, they only mention removing people from "inside the vehicle"... Which means they probably still have someone remotely operating and overseeing the vehicle. Remember the safety driver was partially in the vehicle to fix it when the remote operator wasn't able to fix it/connect to the vehicle. They had to move the safety driver to the driver's seat because it was happening way to often and putting the employee in a dangerous situation when they have to get out of a vehicle in the middle of the road... So still isn't scalable if they still have to have an employee supervising the vehicle even remotely

When they say "unsupervised" what they actually meant is no one inside the vehicle is supervising it, notice they only talked about employees in the vehicle, no mention of getting rid of the remote operator so it still is supervised.

Yeah, in 2024 Uber made like 23B in revenue and tesla made 47B selling cars. the premise that everyone will suddenly ditch their cars and use robotaxi services instead seems unlikely in the US.

Turns out Elon did make sci-fi technology come to life: the suicide booth from Futurama

I live in Buffalo, and last winter there were a bunch of Waymo vehicles around here for winter weather testing. There was no service offered, just testing.

Your anecdotal evidence is zero proof of its efficacy or its ability to operate safely at a high degree of assurance.

Those rubles always pour in when Elmo needs them. He's just a conduit in their plan to destroy the US.

Meme gonna meme

Walk me through the benefit to Tesla of this being successful. They sell less cars? Less FSD subscriptions? Deal with more customer drama? It’s not like taxi cabs are known for being cash cows. This makes no sense.

Or vertically

Tele-operated no doubt.

More like dozens.

Yay, they may just have a chance to get there leg into what will quickly become a very large low-margin, commoditized industry with high fixed capital costs and tons of competition (many already way ahead). This is going to make shareholders so much richer! Right? Right!?

Just another con Why's that other Tesla following us, oh that's the safety monitor, they follow us Yup that's never going to make money

Sure but they’ve been “ironing out the last few kinks” since 2016. It’s a good product, sure. It’s not yet unsupervised full self driving and it’s certainly not materially superior to Waymo in any demonstrable way at this point in time.

So... a 50k car with a 50k fully redundant vehicle and salaried employees... What else are they going to do with all those unsold Cybertrucks?

There is no question that FSD is the best level to ADAS on the market, and that it does a lot of things extremely well. That's irrelevant for full autonomy. What matters for full autonomy is how often they encounter edge cases they can't handle. And we know that's still too frequent. Tesla obviously knows it, because they haven't yet released fully autonomous unsupervised self-driving. The latest reporting from Austin is they've only been rented about six cars at a time, which to me sounds a hell of a lot more like a publicity stunt than an engineering trial. And they've had six fender benders in the last 6 months- that's one fender bender per car per 6 months. That ain't ready.

You seem upset.

Tesla just started with no safety monitor.... while many robotaxis in China already have no safety monitor long ago....... and Tesla stocks pop cause of this?

I heard Toronto was being considered as one of the next cities for waymo.

Q4/25 Numbers will be bad. He has to come up with further lies to pump the share value..

with chaser cars 😂

How would NYC to LA summon even work if there is no one to plug in the car along the way?

I'm sure whoever wants a ride is also a trump supporter (meaning they are a complete moron).

In other news, British comedy legend Rowan Atkinson launched his new [Mr Bean's Mini Cab](https://c.tenor.com/KW_4CI9Odt8AAAAd/tenor.gif) service in London yesterday, also with no safety monitor in the vehicle.

Employees - plural - good point - so by moving the 'monitor' to a car following behind, with its own driver, they have added at least one employee, added one vehicle, both increasing costs, and I would estimate at least doubling the risk of an accident, as now either vehicle can cause one, and the 'monitor' has poorer visibility, along with additional lag. NO wonder the share price shot up on this news!

They’ve started lobbying within Toronto, but have no plan for expansion https://torontosun.com/news/waymo-not-toronto-bound-anytime-soon-company-confirms#

Well... seeing as there will be 2 robotaxis for every 1 in service, and multiple salaried employees... They need charging too! They can FUSC your ASS car all across America! Full Unsupervised Super Charging Let them FUSC your ASS car... LET THEM!

Employee: “Hey, boss, the finances don’t look good. What are we gonna do?” Elon: “Pull the safety monitors out of some robotaxis like I’ve been telling you to do for months!” Employees: “But boss…” Elon: “Just do it.”

That's interesting. Thanks.

Tesla investors must be the dumbest people on the planet

Why not?

I am not sure of the profit margins, the vision is not to just replace cabs but to change the vehicle ownership landscape using the umbrella of autonomous transport. If anything of that sort happens, people can lease a car for a day, a week, a month, or just change the decision to purchase, all options open at any given day.

I'm happy to be in a test market for Arby's Venison Burgers and Taco Bell Turkey legs but not a moving vehicle with questionable safety.

This is idiotic

Nonsense. We can replace one driver with automation plus a driver in a second car.

No one understand how this stock works. I think a lot of bigger short sellers got burned back when tesla was still delivering things people thought impossible (yes, there was such a time). And now they don‘t touch the stock anymore, while everyone else seems to be content to sit on their stock when the company is doing badly and buy in whenever there‘s a tiny spec of good news.

He's a sales man at best not an inventor......

It's funny that everything is already priced in multiple times.

Exactly, Edison was someone who rode the coattails of actual inventors, just like Elon and other billionaires like James Dyson.

They need it in bad weather somewhere. I would have expected it to be Waterloo over Toronto. I had only heard Toronto in some way.

You should probably see a doctor about your hallucinations.