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
Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 hours agoTesla has achieved remote control driving. It’s the only taxi service that has 2 cars per fare.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 hours 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 4 hours 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.