The new system takes effect Sep 1. Seems there is no real criteria to get one aside from ‘trust me bro’. It gets revoked if you kill enough people. Mr. Niedermeyer does a better job of explaining it. https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3lw64sor6r22i
Hahaha! I am so fucking glad I don't live in Texas right now.
I hate to say this but one fatal accident will halt the entire program, otherwise the TX gov would act recklessly by allowing it continue after first death.
Everything’s grifter in Texas
You must not be a Tesla owner. Any moment now they will flip a switch and you can earn $30K a year from your car with repeated soup kitchen’s with Dirty Mike and The Boys.
This will be super interesting because you will see how many crashes they have without intervention. I can't wait honestly.
Texas government act recklessly? Whaaaaaat? Never. Memba the time they tried to get the FBI to arrest all the sitting democrats?
They will never do it. The permit is the story. The service won’t exist beyond a staged video or two up front celebrating their triumph. They won’t even let the public use the service WITH a safety driver.
Uh oh
Sounds like a great way to help get rid of the backlog of Tesla stock rusting away in Tesla showrooms, abandoned shopping malls and now- residential streets.
If the car kills someone the car will simply be declared "woke" and transfered to a different neighborhood. Honestly the best case is they test the cars in Texas and Florida.
This seems like the same story Bloomberg put out on Friday. It was posted to r / SelfDrivingCars. I'm not sure if this is the exact same permit or not, TBH. But in that post, they did talk about it going into effect on September 1st, but there was no mention of not needing a safety driver.
Perfect. No notes. Best of luck.
Texas is a third world country within the United States.
I guess you don’t understand freedom.
Tesla has a massive surplus of cars siting in parking lots not selling. They aren't letting customers make money off of dirty mike, ever.
HAHAHA I am so glad I don't live in texas right now - model y owner here the simulation is fucking terrible at determining what things are around me. I wouldn't trust my neighbors life with that. Lol.
Or memba the time when a bunch of little girls died because a flood warning siren would have been from money Biden appropriated for it.
Beats me. I saw it in my feed from somewhere and posted it. The Sep 1 regs are for autonomous fleets tho.
Did you hear they are improving the visualizations? That should help with safety.
The computer vision using the information on the simulation for the last 4 years for autopilot should tell anyone they need to know they aren't safe for driving on the road with; bikes, pedestrians, children present, dogs cats and other wild animals that live near me on the mountains, small cars, big trucks or buildings anywhere near by. The simulation fucking sucks and vision for autopilot using that data to steer the car is a dangerous embarrassment. Imo Tesla would be better served by hiding the simulation so people have no idea how bad the sensors are used to make driving decisions.
This is extremely dangerous. And they know it.
This should be spectacular!
I'm worried Teslas lawyers will keep shifting blame/Liability to the drivers though who don't have $ to hire lawyers. In this case their license only gets revoked if they killed enough people AND they are found to be at fault in these incidents
This sub has a longstanding tradition of eschewing the /s on posts. I agree with you. Just fucking around.
Someone put together a video predicting the outcome… https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/s/DQvWz9SETc
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You're a sick person. Don't you dare blame that tragedy on something that it wasn't. DOGE headed by Musk, gutted NOAA, and regulatory agencies in charge of alert systems and emergency information. For seven months, money was spent to arrest people outside Home Depot which was appropriated by shuttering essential emergency services. Robotaxis are a scam and nowhere ready for prime time.
This always killed me... If robotaxi was ever going to be profitable, why would Tesla let owners in on it?
“All we need is the software”
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/16/biden-kerr-county-flood-warning-systems/ Try again. There was no siren system because the TX govt used the money for something else.
That was satire. Edit: sorry, it wasn’t satire. Your original comment read funny. It sounds the opposite of what you intended. At least to me and this person.
Won't happen statewide
Oooh I member!
It reads like you're blaming Biden for the Texas flood tragedies with a Georgian accent.
Me too, I was before but I am now too.
Maybe they'll pull the Amazon approach to their grocery store. Make everyone think it's automated but have an entire warehouse of people remotely driving the cars
people are gonna die
They are already doing that with their current fleet of 10 cars.
Today. Think of many it will save in the future.
Yet one more reason to be glad I don’t live in TX.
It’s a well known fact that Texas sees their citizens as expendable assets. Texans seem to enjoy being used and discarded. It helps reinforce their victim complex, fuels their hatred towards others.
Amen.
I predict that once you can let your Tesla run free with no driver in the car, no insurance company in the world is just going to say "great, go ahead, no additional charge". Nor is Tesla insurance. It's gonna cost a freaking bunch. Maybe a **great** distance down the road if/when robotaxis are proven better than humans maybe it might drop your insurance? Or they will just raise the rates for humans. TL;DR (actual) robotaxis are not going to be cheaper or profitable for the individual. IMO
Your first statement is poorly-worded and confusing. The guy who first replied thought you were saying it was Biden’s fault.
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Florida pan handle all have large areas that really make you question things.
Texas. Of course. Enjoy
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Next thing you know their lawyers are going to start blaming the passengers and that the fsd was off like with their regular cars
Yikes. Totally agree
They were told to update the infrastructure then sent the money back because none of those people understand how taxes and government are supposed to work.
The only reason Lyft and Uber are profitable while being cheaper than taxis are because the cost of maintenance and insurance is shifted to the driver. Drivers generally don't understand this and end up making far less than advertised when factoring in the wear on the vehicle. Many don't carry insurance coverage for ride sharing and I've had some super sketch cars I've ridden in. Furthermore who is going to send their car into taxi service after the first Saturday night when some drunk jerk throws up in the car and the owners find it in the morning or damage happens and Tesla informs you it's on your dime to fix?
Trouble is with signal lag you can't really do that. Reaction times on the road need to be sub one second. Adding a mobile internet hop on top of human's already not great reaction time is a recipe for disaster
Yet another reason I'm glad I don't live in Tx.
Hopefully the only ones that get killed are the passengers when it fails to recognize that a train crossing arm is down. Sadly though, if they actually go ahead, it would be innocent bystanders or drivers that get killed.
What are insurance companies thoughts on accident coverage?
Waymo takes 16 years of painstaking work to build trust and momentum in this space and Texas just lets Tesla YOLO a state wide deployment to own the libs.
Its worse than that. They didn't send the money back, they held on to it and spent it on cops. So noone else could actually benefit from it.
They will crash into homes and businesses, nobody is safe!!
Texas sounds like mini Russia in that respect. Always the victim, everyone else sucks.
I mean, I guess you pick a state like Texas to do this in, a state where they’ll send a woman to prison for having a miscarriage or abortion, but they’ll allow a multi billion dollar company to come in and kill its actual citizens in order to make money. Florida would be the other option in my opinion.
I hope no one is hurt because of these idiots. Guess I should say no more people. already been some.
“The Zero Star State”.
And my foot is gonna be the new president of the United States
Seriously, everything I hear about Texas makes me (almost) never want to go there. Yet another reason to add to the list
Oh that would be wild if they remove the guys stopping the cars from killing people. Will they do it or will they make more excuses??
Speaking of staged videos... how many cars are they now self delivering???
They'll kill a few Texans.... who cares lol
I wouldn't be surprised if one of these vehicles hits someone and then Tesla sites that person for damages.
Have you read the snopes article that you linked? Because it says quite clearly that the money was not required to be spent on a flood warning system. It was covid relief money thay could be spent on a million different things. You're acting like Joe Biden told them their flood warning system needed updating and cut them a check to do it. That is completely disingenuous.
Based on what data?
The permit process is a joke. You just self certify and pay some money.
Tesla got a permit to operate a ride hail service in Texas. If they want to operate autonomous cars within this service they require an additional permit which they don’t have yet
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