This is the same CEO who has promised “full self-driving next year” every year since 2018.
This is just plain lying by electrek…he started promising “self-driving next year” long before that.
You can go on the SpaceX website right now and book a trip to Mars for 2026.
No way I checked, this is real. Unbelievable
Don’t make me miss the good timeline like that
In a different time the SEC would have been all over this obvious stock market manipulation.
As we reported last week, the “unsupervised” Robotaxis spotted on January 22 were all being followed by trailing Tesla vehicles with safety monitors inside.
Genius. Musk invented a taxi service that needs 2 cars and 2 drivers per ride.
I can’t wait for Musks dominoes to fall. Once Tesla investors realize their investment is worthless all his other companies he has cross leveraged everything with will all list start collapsing and the whole thing comes down.
That would be devastating to the markets, and it hasn’t even address the AI bubble which is going to pop and the biggest economic downfall and depression in American history begins.
Tough times ahead no matter what, but the sooner Trump is gone they can start rebuilding.
Next he will sell diagnostic machine that only needs one drop of blood.
Anything to distract from the fact that they’re a car company selling fewer and fewer cars.
I followed a link in that article to this one: Tesla didn’t remove the Robotaxi ‘safety monitor’ – it just moved them to a trailing car:
When Musk says there’s “no safety monitor in the car,” he’s technically telling the truth, the monitor is in a different car, following right behind. But the implication that Tesla has achieved true unsupervised autonomy is misleading at best.
Tesla has achieved remote control driving. It’s the only taxi service that has 2 cars per fare.
So instead of just paying a human driver for a taxi they have instead decided to use 2 whole cars AND a human driver. That’s peek efficiency there.
Oh, there’s efficiency–just in the wrong place. He efficiently made a 4% bump in Tesla stock value by telling a few lies. That’s all this is, and has been: profiting on hype/fomo.
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.
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.
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.
