On the earnings call yesterday, they claim (I haven’t seen proof yet) that the chase car has been removed now.
Edit: Just updating with a quote someone transcribed. I thought it was paid rides with no chase car, but reading the actual quote, it sounds like they are claiming it is with nobody in the car and no chase car.
“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.”
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.
I updated my post above with the actual quote after someone transcribed it. He’s saying there’s a car driving around with nobody in it, and no chase car, so not a paid passenger ride.
So I imagine it’s going to be really difficult to get video proof of this if its true, because someone will have to spot a random Tesla driving around without a driver and bother to record it. It’s not like an influencer is going to hail it and be able to video it.
Not gonna lie, when I heard it, it wasn’t as clear that this was the case as when i see it written out.
Saying there’s no chase car anymore isn’t fraud if there’s no chase car anymore. I just haven’t seen any video proof yet of new rides in the past couple days.
Edit: Looks like it’s actually real with no chase cars. It’s been 2 rides so far. They arrived in 1 (which has no one in it) and then take a ride in another one that has no one in it and no chase car.
They’ve said they’ve removed drivers from inside the taxis, then put them in cars trailing the taxis.
Now they said there’s no chase car anymore, and there isn’t, because they put the drivers back in the taxi again.
Both statements were technically correct, but purposefully misleading to bump the stock by a few billion right before earnings call.
And at no point during all this did Tesla taxis drive autonomously.
On the earnings call yesterday, they claim (I haven’t seen proof yet) that the chase car has been removed now.
Edit: Just updating with a quote someone transcribed. I thought it was paid rides with no chase car, but reading the actual quote, it sounds like they are claiming it is with nobody in the car and no chase car.
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.
I updated my post above with the actual quote after someone transcribed it. He’s saying there’s a car driving around with nobody in it, and no chase car, so not a paid passenger ride.
So I imagine it’s going to be really difficult to get video proof of this if its true, because someone will have to spot a random Tesla driving around without a driver and bother to record it. It’s not like an influencer is going to hail it and be able to video it.
Not gonna lie, when I heard it, it wasn’t as clear that this was the case as when i see it written out.
It would be easy to get video proof if they recorded the video themselves. They know where the car is going to be.
Remember when the SEC used to call this fraud?
Saying there’s no chase car anymore isn’t fraud if there’s no chase car anymore. I just haven’t seen any video proof yet of new rides in the past couple days.
Edit: Looks like it’s actually real with no chase cars. It’s been 2 rides so far. They arrived in 1 (which has no one in it) and then take a ride in another one that has no one in it and no chase car.
https://x.com/DavidMoss/status/2016939137031381487
They’ve said they’ve removed drivers from inside the taxis, then put them in cars trailing the taxis.
Now they said there’s no chase car anymore, and there isn’t, because they put the drivers back in the taxi again.
Both statements were technically correct, but purposefully misleading to bump the stock by a few billion right before earnings call.
And at no point during all this did Tesla taxis drive autonomously.
Remember the Tesla Semi? They had videos transporting either empty boxes or potato chips, literally the least dense cargo possible.