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Idk if its just me but it seems the link to the article is not working, I believe this is the original https://fortune.com/2025/07/20/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-serv... . Honestly really excited in general for the expansion of driverless vehicle services like robotaxi/waymo, but I am a bit cautious on the robotaxi camera only approach (correct me if I’m wrong) compared to Waymo’s combination of LiDAR, radar and camera

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Robotaxi is not a driverless taxi service, though, it's a regular taxi service with a human driver in every car. It's laughable to even compare it to Waymo.

It's actually more than one driver, there's a remote person who can intervene as well.

Sounds like all the same things Waymo has when they launch in a new area?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/waymo-cars-are-coming-to-new...

Waymo has already proven that they can drive without any human in the car. Tesla have not, at all - and as this article points out, their cars continue to make major driving mistakes, like driving into an on-coming train, running red lights, driving on the wrong side of the road. These are not subtle issues. So I see no reason to assume that they'll ever work without the human driver.

Remember also that FSD can't even be trusted to drive the 2 miles of one-way tunnel at the Las Vegas Loop - even those cars require a driver today.

Can you post a photo of the said driver?

Thanks! Yeah the AOL link gave me a menu bar and a blank page on Firefox.

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