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Tesla's Bay Area Robotaxi launch: California regulators say company has no AV permit

MarchMurky8649 | 2025-07-26 01:55 | 201 views

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MarchMurky8649 2025-07-26 01:57

"To summarize, Tesla is not allowed to test or transport the public (paid or unpaid) in an AV with or without a driver."

Charming-Tap-1332 2025-07-26 02:22

Elon Musk is hyper-scaling a chauffeur service that will use electric vehicles... 🤣

Spillz-2011 2025-07-26 02:36

I’m not sure I understand the distinction between an av with a driver and a taxi. Fsd is level 2 and surely level 2 is allowed for taxis. Tesla will probably roll out a system where the person behind the wheel is legally driving but tesla says they are exclusively using fsd. It gets held up in court and stonk goes to the moon

JRLDH 2025-07-26 02:38

Tesla also does not have Robotaxis.

Hixie 2025-07-26 03:54

Back when Waymo had test drivers, the difference as far as I can tell was that the car had primary decision authority on when the passenger was ready to go.

Spillz-2011 2025-07-26 05:17

That seems easy to get around legally. Tesla doesn’t actually care if the robotaxi works just that it could work if the pesky regulations were removed. As long as it could work stonk is fine.

Slight_Pomelo_1008 2025-07-26 05:52

cheat to save the shit ER

WildFlowLing 2025-07-26 07:07

Tesla knowingly is pushing this so that they can get their “the regulators are holding us back” story to hide that the real thing holding them back is that it just doesn’t work

Grunge4U 2025-07-26 13:06

The California DMV case needs to jump on penalizing and shutting down Tesla sales and production until they properly rename their driver assist software fine them a billion dollars. Shutting down production would actually do Tesla a favor since they'll have to do this anyway soon due to low car sales but this way they'll be able to blame all of their problems on a blue state who is out to get them.

Academic_Exit1268 2025-07-26 15:04

Disappointing news for all the pranksters ready to sabotage the rollout. Texans aren't up to the task. Cali is where the real sabotage is at.

Radarhog1976 2025-07-27 00:06

Musk stated they had approvals when the stock was plummeting! Is that stock manipulation?

Radarhog1976 2025-07-27 00:07

The stock was crashing! Musk did this last year, same quarter!

NotFromMilkyWay 2025-07-27 04:30

But isn't that the beauty? Tesla could be forced to acknowledge that FSD is not autonomous driving.

Spillz-2011 2025-07-27 05:13

They already have but stock goes zoom.

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