This week, Tesla launched its long-promised robotaxi service in Austin, and almost immediately its vehicles were caught fucking up. [In a YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s-h0YXtF0c&ab_channel=TeslaDaily), a Tesla robotaxi briefly drives on the wrong side of the road. Another video shared by Ed Niedermeyer, the author of a book about Tesla’s origins, shows a robotaxi [braking hard in the middle of the road](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpARr8DVU2M) in response to stationary police vehicles that were not in its immediate driving path. And a third captures a robotaxi dropping off its passengers in [the middle of a busy intersection](https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1lihl6z/robotaxi_pulls_into_the_middle_of_the/). Typically, when a driverless vehicle makes a mistake or is involved in a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launches an investigation. And that’s just what happened yesterday, when the agency released a statement to Bloomberg that said it was reviewing the incident and would “take any necessary actions to protect road safety.” That may leave you with the impression that Tesla has been put on notice. One more mistake, one more close call, and NHTSA will bring the smackdown. Except that’s not really what will happen. Read more from Andrew Hawkins: [https://www.theverge.com/tesla/691975/tesla-robotaxi-mistake-nhtsa-regulatory-weak](https://www.theverge.com/tesla/691975/tesla-robotaxi-mistake-nhtsa-regulatory-weak)
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Not the official Verge account saying dropping an F bomb 🤣
Exactly. When regulators won't step in, consumers eventually will. Robotaxis start running over people or getting into accidents frequently, consumers will avoid them like the plague. Tesla would honestly be better off with good regulations, because Elon doesn't know how to regulate himself, and could end up hurting Tesla's image even more.
The Feds didn't give up, they were dismantled by DOGE. Conflict of interest?
Why would anyone use one even now? Uber and Lyft until Waymo is available
https://archive.ph/PdFG1 Archive version without paywall
Consumers will have to, Trump and Musk gutted the regulators. The problem is that most consumers don’t watch this stuff, and will believe it’s safe and cool, until people start getting hurt. Even then, if it doesn’t show up on their Facebook feed they’ll never know about it.
22nd was a PR stunt, nothing more. The minute this is released to the general public and people record getting stuck in an intersection... that shit will go viral immediately and be worse for Tesler than any regulation would have been. Reality always wins in the end. You can't run a robotaxi service without functioning robotaxis... hiring a bunch of fanboi influencers to pretend like they work isn't going to save you from reality.
He is going to ruin public trust in autonomous driving by being irresponsible and screw it up for everyone
Tesla will find a way to blame it on the victim
Terrifying if you are anywhere near the 'test' area.
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That is just collateral damage. Only some poor ppl will be hurt. But those are only members of the lower caste. Important Humans use planes, have chauffeurs and butlers
Once it's in general service each and every robotaxi will be torched as in 🔥 bombed by the mere fact the service is tinged of nazism
I heard America is safer now with no regulation. Nice work Trump /S
Without crash statistics that won’t matter.
People complain about the prevalence of law suits in the US but it has much to do with the lack of regulations compared to other countries.
The fanboys might not save them in the end, but they’ll help him get through the quarterly call. Why do you think this was done SO close to end of quarter? They can say it’s launched, and less time for failures.
And yet NHTSA is in touch or has called tesla about the videos they are seeing. Not enough or fast enough. Need a legal injunction to get these lethal hazards off public roads. Let them buy or rent a real test track as all other automakers do.
The first accident a Robotaxi gets in will be interesting, from a legal perspective, once insurance gets involved.
Elon killed the regulatory agencies before this launch. I really wonder if it would have been possible to get his robotaxi service on the road if he hadn’t taken out public protection first.
Easy to do when you fire all the regulators.
Consumers will only avoid lethal cars if legitimate investigations and reports get conducted. You assume it remains the case in the upcoming state capitalistic USA. Tesla cars in the same one decade timeframe incenirated more of their drivers and passengers than the Ford Pinto did. Trump gutted regulatory services, so nothing happened.
Eh, it's okay,if only a 'brown person's gets killed. /s
And yet, the insanely overvalued TSLA stock keeps going up. I keep waiting for a crash, even down to reality levels, but the fanbois keep pumping up the shit-stock.
>And that's a good thing! 🙄
Can't be any random Tesla fan who rode their last right driverless. Has to be Someone who is the son or daughter of someone influential.
"A irresponsible dad let his child jump in front of a Robotaxi. The dad got sentenced to 20 years and damages to the car manufacturer"
Elon Musk does not have any driverless vehicles so this news does not affect him
It's Texas. They'll say a prayer and deport the victims family or something idk
Keep an eye on here; [https://www.tesladeaths.com/](https://www.tesladeaths.com/)
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