The Deep Story On The Waymo Vs Tesla Robotaxi Battle, With Video

“Battle.” lol

Great video. Thanks.

great article. wish every retail investor in the EV space would read and consider it; there'd be a lot less confusion.

# "Tesla Disadvantages Overwhelmingly, Tesla’s biggest problem is that their current self-driving platform **can’t self-drive."**

I skimmed the article. Did he mention the part about Elon alienating half the people on the planet then alienating the other half?

Tesla won't be the first institution to go under due to a mistaken belief held by the guy at the top.

That is a very sober objective evaluation. Tesla is still largely vaporware on many things despite producing some really impressive vehicles and having such a huge EV market share. The Austin pilot is at best a baby step and an effort to at least show some progress, though like the article points out, needing an employee in the front seat is just attempting to appear driverless when it is actually not. I don't know why anyone thinks there will suddenly be a instat fleet of Tesla robotaxis. Most people aren't gonna want strangers in their car or to have to clean it several times a day. There are tons of operating issues like that and oh, insurance, business licenses and such people (esp Musk) are simply ignoring that are gonna prevent that from happening.

How is there any "comparison" when Tesla is not capable of FSD at all? This is very effective propaganda actually, the writer of the article comes off as unbiased while entertaining an entirely inappropriate competition "battle" which is nonexistent. Now when a typical person simply scans a headline they are now implementing a bit of bias under the radar which is the assumption that there is a "battle" when tesla is not really sitting at the table or even inside the room with Waymo yet.

There may be new concerns about trusting a grok AI powered robotaxi with life or death consequences....

Great piece Brad!!

🤣 Reminds me of Jurassic park when Goldblum says, “NOW EVENTUALLY YOU DO PLAN TO HAVE DINOSAURS ON YOUR DINOSAUR TOUR, RIGHT?”

Also one out of ten of those robotaxis has since crashed into a parked car right? 9 out of 10 not crashing is still pretty good, not good enough for me to want to ride in one, but yeah, still pretty good

Well, the battle of Omdurman was technically a battle.

Is this some kind of business-speak thing where people use the work “compute” instead of the correct word? “Tesla has more compute in their cars than any old-school carmaker,” “all problems can be solved by adding more data and more compute power.” “Wamyo’s AIs build the map using as much compute as they like,” How amazingly irritating.

It's easier than saying "computational power." Get over it.

There is no battle. There is the Robotaxi service Waymo, and then there is a non-existent Tesla robotaxi service

Oh my! At that point you’d hope the cameras are colour blind.

Also, if every tesla can be a robotaxi, there's not gonna be any money in renting yours out

Yeah, nice use of the Trumpian "some people think" here. Sure, I guess "some people" think that Tesla is ahead. "Some people" think a lot of stupid shit.

“It does not compute” 🤪

Self-driving cars but particularly Tesla self-driving cars with insufficient sensors are an insurance nightmare. The lawsuits for death and disability haven't even started yet.

That is the good thing about the article. No politics, purley, analysis to make it honest

This was a really good article. Long, but really explained the ins in outs of the complexity of self driving systems. I've learned a few things.

Very nice article! Good balance, and support for your points

“From our standpoint, if you fast forward a year – maybe a year and three months, but next year for sure – we’ll have over a million robotaxis on the road,” Musk told an audience on Monday April 23, 2019.

Tesla is basically just - try out self driving fsd. No one is mentioning it’s not even the robotaxi. It’s a model y. It’s like they didn’t have a car ready, panicked and just took a model y with fsd and called it a launch.

It's the correct word. You can think of it as a short hand for "operations per second".

A minor quibble