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Tesla Preparing to Expand Robotaxi Geofence As Validation Vehicles Spotted

stekene | 2025-07-07 09:25 | 69 views

> Tesla appears to be preparing to expand its Robotaxi geofence in Austin, Texas, with numerous engineering vehicles taking to the road. One of the most interesting sights, between the short and tall LiDAR rigs, was a Cybertruck validation vehicle, which we don’t often see.

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Samjamesjr 2025-07-07 10:11

Good. More parked cars for Robotaxi to prey upon.

luv2block 2025-07-07 10:29

Notice how you won't see Musk being driven around in a robotaxi back seat. You'd think the guy would have taken his own robotaxi service at launch. If Sally Jane from youtube gets killed, no big deal. But if the CEO of Tesler gets killed in his own car... well, that can't be allowed to happen. So it will be a long time until you see Musk in a robotaxi.

North-Outside-5815 2025-07-07 11:25

Yup. He has never sat in his own robotaxi, nor flown on a Falcon 9. I don’t think the grifter-in-chief has confidence in his products. Where are the videos of him riding on the cybertruck, confidently keeping his hands off the controls? I don’t think there’s much footage of him driving Tesla cars even.

Lacrewpandora 2025-07-07 11:47

Hmmm...detailed LiDAR mapping and geofences...its almost as if TSLA is re-tracing Waymo's steps, just a decade behind them.

dtyamada 2025-07-07 13:03

Bigger geofence means more opportunities for us to be entertained by ridiculous FSD fails.

I-Pacer 2025-07-07 13:42

Last time I saw him drive a Cybertruck he crashed it into a traffic cone.

caj_account 2025-07-07 14:18

Wow you’re just gonna ignore the guy in the front passenger seat now? How dare you? He’s gonna be responsible for the crash

Withnail2019 2025-07-07 15:08

They arent retracing anything. It's not as though Tesla's self driving is going to improve.

plumpedupawesome 2025-07-07 15:18

Failed miserably with the first smaller geofenced area, expanding seems like quite the premature choice. Can't wait to see the colossal fuckups

Top_Junket2991 2025-07-07 15:32

How about they expand user base and let anyone order it

Lacrewpandora 2025-07-07 15:53

I dunno. Elon could invent LiDAR and have an epiphany that he should add RADAR...and poach alot of Waymo's talent. You never know - in 10 years he could be where Waymo is today.

DisastrousIncident75 2025-07-07 17:25

Can’t wait 🍿

DisastrousIncident75 2025-07-07 17:28

It’s more of hype story due to the upcoming quarterly report. Gotta keep Wall Street optimistic to pump the stock price.

Beezelbubba 2025-07-07 17:33

A hail Mary pass

vietomatic 2025-07-07 17:37

Gotta put to use the 250,000 surplus Cyberturds sitting in a mall lot.

PTBAFC24601 2025-07-07 18:04

In two years he will claim to be the founder of Waymo.

SisterOfBattIe 2025-07-07 21:11

Tesla: GO FAST! BREAK THINGS! Texans: Ahhhhhhh!!!

sonicmerlin 2025-07-07 22:00

Does he actually drive himself?

North-Outside-5815 2025-07-07 22:24

When he made big boy money the first time, he bought a sports car and promptly crashed if. Maybe he doesn’t drive anymore. Shouldn’t that be even more of an opportunity to be seen driven around by a model S then?

RocketLabBeatsSpaceX 2025-07-08 00:35

😂

BigMax 2025-07-08 01:21

You're right, I think it shows his lack of confidence. Not for safety necessarily, but for problems. That one taxi ride would have been covered by a million media members. And he wasn't confident that there wouldn't be a glitch with it. If Joe Random has a weird issue on his taxi ride, they can say "well, that's a one-off, most rides are fine." If Elon Musk had a glitch... people would read a LOT more into that glitch. And they aren't confident enough in their robotaxi at this point to have one single taxi ride get that much attention.

BurtMacklin-FBl 2025-07-08 10:50

Even Stockton Rush went down in his contraption every time.

sftwrngnr1966 2025-07-11 23:56

I find it absolutely comical that Elon claimed that geofencing, LIDAR and precision mapping was lame. And yet, it seems as though that is exactly what he's doing.

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