Imagine a taxi that can’t operate in the rain. That is what Tesla has delivered in Austin TX.
These riders learned that the hard way, but don’t have anything particularly negative to say about it… That’s the advantage of only making a Robotaxi service available to hand-picked Tesla influencers.
First thing that should be done… slap a “replacing a worker with a machine” tax, before we even think about having autonomous cars as cabs.
Why am I just now noticing Tesla’s logo looks exactly like an IUD?
This article is TERRORISM because it Probably HURTS ELONS FEELINGS!
“don’t call me a snowflake, YOU’RE the snowflake!”
For anyone wondering waymos (Google driverless cars) handle rain just fine as far as I’ve seen, and they have service in Austin. Idk why you would ever choose to take a tesla taxi.
For the thrill of a highly possible, but statistically improbable, violent death?
Thrill seekers gonna seek thrills.
for a robotaxi that has a driver for “safety”! Congratulations, Elon. You invented a taxi!
Something is very wrong in this universe since Elon Musk continues to earn more and more money.
EDIT: Because he doesn’t have enough! And can’t think of anything fucking better to do with his time!
Earn is a strong word. He obtains more money.
Accumulates
Accretes?
…you know, I never thought of it that way before but yeah, the way our economic system is designed, money is like gravity. Once it passes a certain threshold, it just…accretes.
And much like gravity it would take a rare and exceptionally violent event to break that hold and scatter it again in a way it won’t just pull back together.
earn more and more money
STEAL more and more money
FTFY
Assimilate
Resistance is futile!
Far as I can tell, he’s losing money, just not fast enough to choke him to death.
Manual override: on.
Because it’s all government subsidies/contracts.
We pay him. Involuntarily. That’s how “capitalism” is supposed to work. Right?
Yes, it invariably devolves into oligarchy.
Distracting af. Anyone have a copy of the video without such noisy ball gargling throughout?
But I thought cameras > LiDar?🥴
The kid mannequin didn’t think so.
The kid mannequin doesn’t do much thinking anymore, RIP <3
Did it before? O_o
Well it had a chance of finishing its education, before it got Musked while getting off the school bus
Right before it wile E. coyote’d itself.
I mean to do a little devils advocate here he did say in terms of cost… not in terms of quality.
and quality is as we all know not important for self driving vehicles…
/s
even if they did, i’d still walk in the rain before riding in one of those fucking things
I have as much of a chance in the trunk of a mob owned Chevy celebrity as I do in a Tesla. At least I can try to talk the mob down.
Spoiler alert
looks around desperately for boxy 80s cars “phew!” I exclaim, whilst not noticing the Tesla wiggling it’s ass in the bushes while stalking me.
Let those peasants pull their bootstraps and find their own way home if it’s raining!
Tesla: We need to release the product to the public asap, how else are we gonna create something that really works?
Google (Waymo) already has an entire fleet of autonomous vehicles available for hire in Austin and many other cities. Amazon (Zoox) has been testing on the roads in Austin for over a year now. Both have thus far seemed to be doing really well from a safety perspective. But then again, like VW, they’re using lidar and can see through rain, fog, and night.
From a business perspective, Google and Amazon have diverse revenue streams and the deepest pockets imaginable, and will crush Tesla, whose only other sources of revenue are actively drying up.
All of this is so plainly obvious, along with how shitty Tesla is as a company. But TSLA somehow keeps its overinflated value.
I don’t understand it.
It’s a meme stock. Game stop on ketamine.
Forgive my ignorance, but why is Tesla using cameras and not LIDAR?
Because Elon has far more influence than intelligence.
They used to use LIDAR but Musk decided the hardware cost too much
It’s cheaper.
That…that’s it? He’s the richest man in the world for fucks sake. Also, they don’t work.
So is not using a Tesla
What’s it cost to hire an assassin? Teslas might be cheaper.
Less reliable, though.
The one good thing about the Tesla implosion is the increased attention on Zoox
I watched a minute of that YouTube video and feel so sorry for those people
Don’t. They’re handpicked Elon bootlickers.
If these are his bootlickers…how embarrassing. Why is that adult woman holding a little mermaid doll for the entire video
