Tesla launched its “Robotaxi” service in Austin eight months ago. In that time, Elon Musk promised 500 cars in Austin, coverage for half the US population, fully unsupervised rides, and expansion to 8-10 cities, all by the end of 2025. None of it happened.
Today, the service has roughly 42 cars in Austin, availability below 20%, a crash rate 9 times worse than human drivers, and the “unsupervised” rides Musk hyped before earnings have vanished from the tracker.
Driverless cars are supposed to be better at not crashing, not worse. This one is on Tesla.
Not to mention that Google, to pick one example, has had driverless cars that had a much better accident rate than humans years back. This is something where the technology exists…it’s just Tesla not executing on it.