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USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive"
According to CEO Elon Musk, Tesla’s future rests on the two-seat driverless pod.
The agency cites evidence from Wikipedia, The Verge, and the Amazon-backed autonomous vehicle startup Zoox in its denial of Tesla's trademark application. The vehicles lack an actual steering wheel, so they won't conduct this testing with human safety operators on board; instead, Tesla will rely on teleoperation to handle problems that are too complicated for its AV stack to work out. In 2014 he decided to indulge his lifelong passion for the car by leaving the National Human Genome Research Institute and launching Ars Technica's automotive coverage.
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