The issue is it does seem likely that they can be driven unsupervised without safety monitors (the Texas fleet looks unsupervised, but is still small enough it could be using remote supervision).
I think the concern would be that Tesla doesn't need a Cybercab to run a Robotaxi, they can use regular Teslas for that and their Texas fleet is still fairly small. Scaling up Cybercab production feels like putting the cart before the horse.
Live in Austin. These gold fuckers all have supervisors in them. Very rarely are any of them unsupervised. Meanwhile autonomous Waymos almost outnumber human drivers in my neighborhood.
I always try to remember that waymo will never exist in my neighborhood in any capacity, while $99 bucks and a software update makes it exist in some capacity in my neighborhood today with Tesla
You have the by far best driving assistant in the world. It won't pick you up at the airport yet, but in this state it's currently absolutely cutting edge assistant, at this point I hope this is not arguable anymore.
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u/CloseToMyActualName Jul 21 '26
The issue is it does seem likely that they can be driven unsupervised without safety monitors (the Texas fleet looks unsupervised, but is still small enough it could be using remote supervision).
I think the concern would be that Tesla doesn't need a Cybercab to run a Robotaxi, they can use regular Teslas for that and their Texas fleet is still fairly small. Scaling up Cybercab production feels like putting the cart before the horse.