Double your traffic congestion, or your money back!
. . . or not, since I’ve never heard of Tesla voluntarily refunding anything.
Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement
aramis87@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I followed a link in that article to this one: Tesla didn’t remove the Robotaxi ‘safety monitor’ – it just moved them to a trailing car:
When Musk says there’s “no safety monitor in the car,” he’s technically telling the truth, the monitor is in a different car, following right behind. But the implication that Tesla has achieved true unsupervised autonomy is misleading at best.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
On the earnings call, they claim (I haven’t seen proof yet) that the chase car has been removed now.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Saying there’s no chase car anymore isn’t fraud if there’s no chase car anymore. I just haven’t seen any video proof yet of new rides in the past couple days.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Remember the Tesla Semi? They had videos transporting either empty boxes or potato chips, literally the least dense cargo possible.
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
They’ve said they’ve removed drivers from inside the taxis, then put them in cars trailing the taxis.
Now they said there’s no chase car anymore, and there isn’t, because they put the driver back in the taxi again.
Both statements were technically correct, but purposefully misleading to bump the stock by a few billion right before earnings call.
aramis87@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
The chase car has been removed - but no one's seen the self-driving cars either, not since the chase car was removed. It's another intentional misdirection.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I updated my post above with the actual quote after someone transcribed it. He’s saying there’s a car driving around with nobody in it, and no chase car, so not a paid passenger ride.
So I imagine it’s going to be really difficult to get video proof of this if its true, because someone will have to spot a random Tesla driving around without a driver and bother to record it. It’s not like an influencer is going to hail it and be able to video it.
Not gonna lie, when I heard it, it wasn’t as clear this was the case as when i see it written out.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It would be easy to get video proof if they recorded the video themselves. They know where the car is going to be.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tesla has achieved remote control driving. It’s the only taxi service that has 2 cars per fare.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So instead of just paying a human driver for a taxi they have instead decided to use 2 whole cars AND a human driver. That’s peek efficiency there.
frunch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh, there’s efficiency–just in the wrong place. He efficiently made a 4% bump in Tesla stock value by telling a few lies. That’s all this is, and has been: profiting on hype/fomo.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Waymo and others used a chase car, but they were transparent about that.
They still have some, but the ratio is now many self driving vehicles to one safety car