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Tesla Readies a Taxi Service in San Francisco—but Not With Robotaxis
The electric carmaker informed California that it will operate a limited public taxi service. But it’s not legally allowed to do this with self-driving cars.
The plan appears to put the electric carmaker in murky legal waters in a US state with the country's most tightly regulated autonomous vehicle industry—and where Tesla is already being sued for misleading language around its driver assistance tech. It is currently in administrative court with the state of California over allegations that Tesla has misled consumers for years by using language such as “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving” to sell technology that can’t drive itself, but must be overseen by a human driver at all times. Texas does not have strict regulations around autonomous vehicle testing and deployments, but Tesla launched the service with employees sitting in each car’s passenger seat, to intervene if the tech goes wrong.
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