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0 pointsllboston2mo ago0 comments

According to https://robotaxitracker.com/ there are 7 unsupervised robotaxi in Austin right now.

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Are these the cars where the safety driver is in a car tailing the robotaxi, or do they actually run without the need for a safety driver?

https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robota...

WarmWash2mo ago

It seems they run without a safety driver or follow car (mostly?).

However the area it operates is extremely small, and they are still only allowing Tesla bros to try it.

senordevnyc2mo ago

So in other words, like literally every other word out of Elon’s mouth for a decade now, it’s incredibly dishonest. He lies about everything, all the time, without any acknowledgment. Nothing is ever delivered on time, most of it isn’t delivered at all, and virtually every bit of promised capability is exaggerated.

Why does anyone want to do business with a person or company like that? I genuinely do not understand.

small_model2mo ago

Nope is open to the public and covers bigger area then Waymo. EDS is limiting a lot of people here's ability to critically evaluate the current autonomous auto rollout.

WarmWash2mo ago

The unsupervised area is a tiny subset of the supervised area.

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senordevnyc2mo ago

This is totally false. If there are any truly autonomous robotaxis in Austin (a bit if, since Tesla has repeatedly lied and faked things like this in the past), it’s only a handful and they’re limited to a tiny area. The “robotaxis” with a safety driver are the ones that have the bigger area, probably because Tesla sucks at actual self-driving. Still. After a decade of broken promises and shitty engineering practices.

Elon has been blatantly lying about FSD for years, and yet the fans still take whatever he says as gospel. And yet the skeptics are the ones with EDS? lol, ok.

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DerekL2mo ago

Are these the cars where the safety driver is in a car tailing the robotaxi, or do they actually run without the need for a safety driver?

https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robota...

WarmWash2mo ago

It seems they run without a safety driver or follow car (mostly?).

However the area it operates is extremely small, and they are still only allowing Tesla bros to try it.

senordevnyc2mo ago

Why does anyone want to do business with a person or company like that? I genuinely do not understand.

small_model2mo ago

Nope is open to the public and covers bigger area then Waymo. EDS is limiting a lot of people here's ability to critically evaluate the current autonomous auto rollout.

WarmWash2mo ago

The unsupervised area is a tiny subset of the supervised area.

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senordevnyc2mo ago

Elon has been blatantly lying about FSD for years, and yet the fans still take whatever he says as gospel. And yet the skeptics are the ones with EDS? lol, ok.

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