Are robotaxis the future? Or instead, the past?
Are robotaxis the future? Or instead, the past?
The news media has expended considerable effort researching and publishing information about the robotaxi business. This channel highlights some of the important articles.
The Verge reports on how Tesla's robotaxi attempt is in Texas because of the extremely lenient laws there. Their politicians appears to simply not care at all about safety of the public.
KXAN Austin reports on how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has stated that Tesla has answered their questions on how they plan on offering robotaxi service safely. But Tesla won't allow the answers to be released to the public even though they will be using public roads.
engadget reports that the purported Tesla robotaxi launch will be quite a feeble joke
Benzinga reports on yet another scary situation where a Cybertruck on FSD drives in the wrong lane right into oncoming traffic.
electrek reports that Zoox has created a dedicated factory in Hayward California for manufacturing their custom vehicles. Not only are they trying to develop self driving, but they are doing their own manufacturing, which will be incredibly cost inefficient.
electrek reports on how Tesla's entire robotaxi launch is just a lot of misdirection.
SF Standard reports that Zoox is expecting to start robotaxi service "soon", but hey, don't sit in the front seats!
electrek reports on a truly shoddy and misleading reports on Tesla vs Waymo and self driving robotaxis
electrek joins in on the reporting of a self driving Tesla heading down train tracks and gettn\ing scraped by a train
WFMZ News reports on how a Tesla driving itself decided to turn down the railroad tracks and got stuck. The oncoming train then struck the mirror of the car in quite a close call. And Tesla is going to run a robotaxi service???
Business Insider reports that Waymo robotaxis are actually more expensive to use than Uber or Lyft. This does not bode well for the future of robotaxis as a profitable business venture, once the novelty wears off.
Bay Area Current provides more in depth reasons for why protestors have been burning Waymos
CNBC reports that even Texans don't want not stinking Elon robotaxis!
Waymo is apparently a bit tired of being the target of political ire. So they are hiding away for a few days.
It is remarkable that officials in San Francisco have to put out announcement that if Waymos are lit on fire during protests that they likely will just let them burn
