Waymo already beat them to it in the robo taxi area
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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They rushed this shit out so they could be "first" to make line go up to compensate for Nazi Muskrat dragging them down with him. Unsurprisingly, they fucked up and are endangering people in the process.
They can't even meet the bar that other companies have gotten to with self-driving tech lol
Huh? They are not even nearly first?
They can't even meet the bar that other companies have gotten to with self-driving tech lol
And the bar was set dangerously low by others...
Pretty bold to have launched in a city that already has a functional driverless cab service, and with people that now have expectations of something good. I don’t know how delusional they must be to think they will compare well to Waymo.
That site sucks (Checking if your "connection" is "secure")
Robotaxi drives into oncoming lane
Rider presses “pull over”, Robotaxi stops in the middle of an intersection, rider gets out while Robotaxi blocks intersection for a few moments
Rider presses pull over and the car just stopped in the middle of the road. Safety monitor has to call rider support to get car moving again
Robotaxi doesn’t detect UPS driver’s reverse lights (or the car reversing towards it) and continues to attempt to park, then safety monitor manually stops it
Robotaxi cuts off a car, then randomly brakes (potentially because of an upcoming tree shadow?)
Robotaxi going 26 in a 15
Robotaxi unexpectedly brakes, possibly due to nearby police
Robotaxi unexpectedly slams on brakes, causing rider to drop phone
Robotaxi comes to a complete stop after approaching an object, then runs it over (rider says it’s a shopping bag, though the car visibly bump up and down)
Robotaxi runs over curb in parking lot
Safety driver moved to driver seat to intervene
This is the funniest part for me
There are reportedly around ten Robotaxis running in Austin right now.
That's all? All these mistakes come from just 10 robotaxis?
I've seen other sources claim 20. Still ass in my opinion
I'm sort of baffled by the range. "Ten or so" is the commonly reported number I saw, so I ran with that, but I have also seen higher estimates.
Like, surely, Tesla needs to report the exact number to the state, right? How is it possible that we don't know, it's just such a bootleg setup.
There are 1,500 Waymos on the road presently (not 1,500 to 3,000), which Waymo themselves announce because Waymo isn't a circus act: https://waymo.com/blog/2025/05/scaling-our-fleet-through-us-manufacturing
Here are some YT videos:
https://youtu.be/C_pSZv6THfA?t=2289
https://youtu.be/xf_-v-nMrM8?t=619
https://youtu.be/fZDcPisEi4I?t=298
Honestly only the first one is mildly interesting.
Some of the fanboi justification talk is super cringey.
Lol it's so hard to listen to.
Ooop looks like we just ran over a small child but you know what the car didn't even hesitate and they say that really, it's safer for the driver and the traffic around to not hesitate so, kudos to Tesla for taking the safety of everyone in mind. Also, with that adaptive air suspension system, I hardly felt the body. This is like riding on a cloud. And there's NO driver! I mean this is incredible guys, really.
Stops in a live intersection to drop off the passengers... Then stays stopped in a live intersection until the user completes the ride.
Are they supposed to drive like assholes for effect?
The human safety operator just placidly smiling as he drops them off directly in an intersection (in the line of travel of a pickup truck) was pretty funny.
As if to say: "Go on. Go out and get what you paid for."
Maybe we this just means that the public streets are more free-game for random experiments than we thought!
Everything is legal until the pigs arrive.
Everything you do is legal when you donate to the pig’s department. Which I assume Elon does.
Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.