Tesla didn't remove Robotaxi safety monitor – just moved them to a trailing car(electrek.co)

21 pointsby usefulposter9 hours ago3 comments

netsharc8 hours ago
Why not have the driver ahead to point out any issues on the road to the car behind. Call it Potemkin Self-Driving.
steeve7 hours ago
i can't help but think of the scammy communication around this on X. and the actual need to be deceitful about it.
oh how low the mighty have fallen
- netsharc5 hours ago
  In legalese it's true... the tweet was "Just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car.".
  An analogy would be if a husband came home from a job trip in Denver and his wife accused him of cheating, and his response is "I wasn't cheating on you in Denver!", because he cheated on her in Boulder.
  "No safety monitor in the car". Somehow the image of Mr. Bean driving his car from an armchair mounted on top of it comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVSLLWXdKV0
- ben_w5 hours ago
  Fallen implies they were ever high. Unfortunately the revelations regarding the "Paint it Black" self-driving demo demonstrate a history of dishonesty, that this isn't new.
kotaKat4 hours ago
I’m still surprised they don’t rig up an in-roof Starlink multi-beam array or something and just set the cars up for remote driving somewhere and just rely on tele-operation to fill the gaps (ala Vay, Phantom Auto, et al).
At least that level of cheating would have been more impressive than a safety monitor hanging onto the passenger window switch as a killswitch.
(Then maybe in the future, your remote tele-operation drivers are replaced with ‘the AI’ running in ‘the cloud’ instead over the same remote control link? Boom, I’ve also just solved the hardware upgrade issues…)