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Tesla Says Its Robotaxi App Now Open to Public Riders

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As long as they have a human safety monitor in the vehicle, meaningful scaling cannot occur. On a related note, the FSD software in the rest of the fleet has not seen a noteworthy update since early this year.

I wonder if the human safety monitor will be informing all riders of where the physical door releases are hidden like the owners manual says you should inform all passengers of in case the vehicle loses power in a collision.

Teslas are a passenger deathtrap waiting to happen.

According to Electrek, all the app does is let you join a waitlist. There aren't a lot of cars, nor has the service area dramatically expanded.

This may just be a PR move to brag about how many people are willing to press a few buttons and claim demand is high.

Yep, and to justify the claim that 'Robotaxi is accessible to 50% of US population before the end of the year' made by the CEO...

That's pretty much the same strategy as with Cybertruck - those 2 millions reservations turned to something like 50k sales.

Robotaxi's are especially interesting because once they're working on their own properly, Tesla has the capacity and funding to spread them nationwide in a relatively short while, much faster than waymo could ever do.

All they have to do is get them working without a safety monitor first...

So Waymo…

Yeah but Waymo's aren't cost competitive, so you can't really spread them across the country until the price comes down. Tesla has already finished and demonstrated they can produce millions of their product a year, and so when they really figure it out they could absolutely explode

If they figure it out before losing the market

Except they are, they’re rolling out new cities all the time.

> Tesla has the capacity and funding to spread them nationwide

Musk’s politics mean these won’t be approved in big cities easily.

Surely this will double their metrics to ten rides a day.

Such genius.

Next, Musk will revolutionize manufacturing by using humanoid robots.

Of course, they will be individually operated by a person.

Don't worry, there's just a worker on the assembly line for _legal reasons_.

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