Are robotaxis the future? Or instead, the past?
Are robotaxis the future? Or instead, the past?
electrek reports that Tesla has dodged a 30-day suspension in California by finally changing their false marketing campaigns. Tesla is completely dropping "AutoPilot" and will only refer to FSD through the amazing contradiction of "Full Self Driving (supervised)"
Washington Post Editorial Board publishes absolute nonsense on the safety of autonomous vehicles, in the hopes of minimizing safety regulations. The Washington Post used to be an important newspaper, but clearly no longer.
electrek fact checks Elon's statements on the alleged Tesla robotaxi service and finds that it is all just a bunch of lies.
The Verge reports on Waymo talking around one of their biggest problems: they don't manufacture cars. Therefore they have to adapt their technology to a series of vehicles. And note that the Zeekr is a Chinese import which current has a 100% tariff levied.
11 Alive from Atlanta reports that a Waymo, this time with a passenger, drives into the middle of an active crime scene where to policed officers were just injured in a shooting.
5 NBC DFW reports on how relying on the "self-driving" features of a Tesla can go incredibly wrong. Once again, a Tesla ran into emergency vehicles with their lights flashing. This completely demolishes the argument that AVs will help eliminate the dangers of drunk driving. Drunk driving is still drunk driving, even if one has some fancy, but half-baked, technology.
