A week ago, Elon Musk announced that Tesla had started Robotaxi rides in Austin “with no safety monitor in the...
  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I think we gotta give them more than 24h after he says something is now happening to see if it is happening or not?

    It’s going to come out soon enough either way.

    edit: The call was explicit, no chase cars, no driver in the passenger seat, fully autonomous. And it’s not every car, but a small amount, which really could mean just 1.

    • mech@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      So far it seems to be zero, or one of the many Youtubers who’ve been hailing Tesla taxis all day long in order to be the first would have uploaded by now.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Ya, I would expect a video any day now to confirm this one way or the other. This isn’t a lets wait a month and find out situation.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        You know what, I saw someone transcribe the quote, and I don’t think they were claiming there are passengers in the cars with no chase vehicles

        “We were able to do our first rides with no safety monitor in the car in Austin — these are paid rides, so these were just randomly paid rides with no safety monitor, and [umm] maybe as of maybe yesterday or so we actually don’t even have a chase car or anything like that so these are just cars with no people in them and no one’s following the car in Austin.”

        these are just cars with no people in them and no one’s following the car in Austin.

        So ya we might not get any videos or proof of this statement which makes it useless.