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Awkward Tesla Robotaxi incident proves they are putting optics over safety


An awkward Tesla Robotaxi incident, where the “safety monitor” had to exit the vehicle in the middle of traffic to...

He and Tesla badly needed a win to save face as Waymo is now rapidly expanding its own autonomous ride-hailing service across half a dozen US cities. Tesla began offering a ride-hailing service in Austin, utilizing vehicles equipped with an updated version of its consumer Supervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology. The supervisor had to exit the vehicle in the middle of traffic to move to the driver’s seat and manually drive it to complete the ride:

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