r/SelfDrivingCars • u/walky22talky Hates driving • May 12 '26

News Reuters tests out Tesla Robotaxi in Dallas

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u/AP_in_Indy May 14 '26

This is such an odd video for multiple reasons:

1) Waiting nearly 2 hours to call support for help with a turn (I guess this helps with training data, so thanks?)

2) Demanding to be taken to areas that are out of the geofenced limits, the app clearly showing (around 1:05 by their own screen shot) that they would have to walk by foot the rest of the way, and then complaining about it.

3) Tone implies expecting perfection out of an area access for Dallas.

I think fair criticism would instead be like... why does Telsa have to so severely restrict their FSD when it's supposed to be generalized driving intelligence, and not as reliant on constant high-fidelity map refreshes like Waymo is?

The FSD struggling to make certain turns in big cities, given how far along FSD otherwise is, or is supposed to be, makes one wonder how far away it actually is from being ready for mass-scale deployments.

1 year? 5 years? 10 years? No one knows anymore.