This is the same CEO who has promised “full self-driving next year” every year since 2018.
This is just plain lying by electrek…he started promising “self-driving next year” long before that.
Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement
Submitted 2 weeks ago by madde@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://electrek.co/2026/01/28/teslas-unsupervised-robotaxis-vanish/
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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Don’t make me miss the good timeline like that
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
No way I checked, this is real. Unbelievable
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Earlier than that it’s absolutely insane that anyone believes anything this dunce says now.
baller_w@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
And The Music Man just announced this will be a monthly service to make stonk go up.
“The market will bear the cost”
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think it was next year every year before that?
It was just very soon before that.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
He may have used “end of year” before 2018…I’m pretty sure he promised “coast-to-coast” FSD capabilities “by end of the year” back in 2016
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
As we reported last week, the “unsupervised” Robotaxis spotted on January 22 were all being followed by trailing Tesla vehicles with safety monitors inside.
Genius. Musk invented a taxi service that needs 2 cars and 2 drivers per ride.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
It is easier to get the public to accept they don’t have a safety driver involved at all with this middle step.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
aramis87@fedia.io 2 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.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tesla has achieved remote control driving. It’s the only taxi service that has 2 cars per fare.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 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.
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
nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Double your traffic congestion, or your money back!
. . . or not, since I’ve never heard of Tesla voluntarily refunding anything.
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
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.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Fake it till you… Scratch that, just fake it.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
make use of AI.
Actually Indians.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Next he will sell diagnostic machine that only needs one drop of blood.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I can’t wait for Musks dominoes to fall. Once Tesla investors realize their investment is worthless all his other companies he has cross leveraged everything with will all list start collapsing and the whole thing comes down.
That would be devastating to the markets, and it hasn’t even address the AI bubble which is going to pop and the biggest economic downfall and depression in American history begins.
Tough times ahead no matter what, but the sooner Trump is gone they can start rebuilding.
Zron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The problem is that Tesla has become a self fulfilling prophecy. Not in any ability to actually make the products they advertise, but in making investors money. So many people have invested so much that the stock price now effectively describes investor’s aspirations for money, not their faith in Tesla. This has been true for some time. The value of the stock has been largely divorced from the reality of production targets, new products, or even the endless controversies.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Once Tesla investors realize their investment is worthless
that’s going to take a long time
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Anything to distract from the fact that they’re a car company selling fewer and fewer cars.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ah but now they’re going to be a robot company selling fewer and fewer robots instead.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
4D chess…the Optimus robots will drive the cabs.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And an ai company with no ai product
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
But they can’t sell fewer than zero! Egads, Tesla has found a way to never shrink their business anymore!
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Tesla isn’t a car company, it’s a techbro company. They don’t sell cars, they sell the idea that any day now they’ll achieve a technological breakthrough.
But it’s becoming obvious that won’t happen, so they now pivot to robots. Selling the idea that they’ll achieve a breakthrough in that space soon.
Those buying the products aren’t the target audience, the investors are. The customers are just useful cattle.alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I though they were a stock company, since that’s all they sell.
SouthFresh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Herr Musk is a lying nazi, and anyone holding Tesla is a fool and will get what they deserve
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m not so sure that everyone holding Tesla is going to get what they deserve anymore.
I agree they should get it, though.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
At this point if one buys a Tesla vehicle anytime between '22 and today, it’s on them
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Surprised pikachu dot jay peg
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anyone else feel like Tesla is actually how Elon is being paid for being the one to make twitter fascist and the DOGE bs? Like the majority of shareholders don’t actually gaf how the company does and the billion dollar compensation package had nothing to do with Tesla other than it being the vehicle through which the payment was made?
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t see how. This is just a continuation of what he was already doing, facilitated by a board of his friends and relatives.
Even worse I have to say I’m not totally against it. All too often ceos get excessive pay regardless of their results. While I haven’t looked in detail not at the history, the claim is these are only for Tesla meeting some extremely ambitious milestones and the payment is stock. Certainly his previous ridiculous allay was in stock and Tesla had some extraordinary growth. If the stock doesn’t go up, then he should never receive that wealth
If it’s truly contingent on the company growth and the board doesn’t throw him a life preserver, that’s not entirely bad. Excessive yes. Extremely excessive. Excessively excessive. But more execs need to have their wealth gated on actual results
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The thing that makes it more suspect IMO is that shareholders voted for it, not just the board. Courts specifically said they didn’t need to but shareholders (dominated by large account holders) still voted for it.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My pet theory is that Musk was installed at Tesla by the Saudis (who apparently have a bit of money) to destroy the very idea of electric cars by putting out as bad and overpriced a product as possible. Despite his best efforts, people still want the goddamn things.
YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
In a different time the SEC would have been all over this obvious stock market manipulation.