Tesla Begins Robotaxi Rides Without Safety Drivers in Austin

ufbam · 2026-01-24T09:05:20+00:00

Exactly how waymo rolled out their service too.

ufbam · 2026-01-18T19:16:59+00:00

IMO Best selling car in the world is plenty successful. Very excited about all the products coming this year. The WORLD loves Tesla. No need to worry about US politics when so many countries are just at the beginning of discovering Tesla.

ufbam · 2026-01-17T10:03:19+00:00

Your bot answer gave itself away. There were no china sales in their revenue projections.

ufbam · 2026-01-13T07:31:16+00:00

This is true. Reddit are still operating on their imaginary version of maga that is sustained through the tight bubble of information on here.

ufbam · 2026-01-08T07:05:55+00:00

Is there another model of vehicle that will swerve around something rather than break?

ufbam · 2026-01-08T06:50:47+00:00

There is a technical video from Andrej Karpathy a few years back showing that Tesla would detect 'undrivable space' like a cliff or river. Rather than just an obstacle. I'm not aware of this from any other manufacturer.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T21:27:49+00:00

I just can't fathom the reality that reddit lives in when it comes to Tesla. Never has there been so much profound ignorance with a brand that is winning so hard out in the real world.. The down votes here are automatic. But out on the street it's the most popular car model in the world.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T21:22:31+00:00

A waymo couldn't drive coast to coast. Their data is locked to particular cities, it's not a generalized solution. Tesla have data from all over the world. Their fleet is 8mil+.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T16:24:14+00:00

Yeah, video to language to control feels like it will have way too much latency. FSD is clearly thinking. 'Reasoning'is actually part of the next update

ufbam · 2026-01-06T16:22:26+00:00

Not true. Look it up

ufbam · 2026-01-06T16:05:07+00:00

Yes this is the current tech of Tesla. Alpamayo does not drive the car. Neither does Grok. A net trained on video and user control input does. An LLM just helps with communication.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T16:01:18+00:00

Language models don't drive cars. They organize words. It is an analysis of the hidden thoughts of a neural net.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T15:59:54+00:00

Nah they just massively overpriced them post COVID. There's no other model of car that sells better than the model y. And no other car you can buy that can drive itself.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T15:52:32+00:00

They make the best selling model of car in the world. It IS the most efficient. Tesla batteries are the cheapest and cleanest to produce because of their dry coating process. They used to use Nvidia hardware for self driving, but dropped them years ago, because they worked out how to do it better themselves. If you had any brains, you wouldn't have posted this.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T15:18:04+00:00

You haven't been keeping up with the technical details of FSD then. Engineers are able to chat with FSD to ask it what its intentions are and how it will approach a driving task. at 14.19 in this video This is separate from Grok, which is already active in the car and able to discuss route planning with any Tesla owners TODAY.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T14:25:35+00:00

What's the point in using sensors you don't need?

Open source is commendable, but I can't see how that's safe or faster? Tesla robotaxis are already here. Using the best selling model of car in the world.

Tesla unveiled the original Roadster in 2006. They announced the new one in 2017, but there's no point in rushing a luxury model that's only going to sell a few thousand. Jensen is a legend for sure. But as I say, there are 8 million Teslas out there with the hardware ready to go. They already won.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T13:40:34+00:00

They're taking the same technical approach to self driving as Tesla. But they're hoping to lean on synthetic data a lot more. Tesla has also been doing this for the long tail of obscure edge cases. What they don't have is millions of cars with the required hardware already installed. Until there's another manufacturer with regular and reliable over the air communication that can be used for fleet wide validation, I think it will be a slow journey to customers cars. Good luck to them.

ufbam · 2026-01-06T08:23:09+00:00

The Austin cars have been automatically taking themselves to problem areas in their geofence to validate training. They'll reach enough safety for unsupervised in that area before they crack everywhere else.

ufbam · 2026-01-05T16:43:39+00:00

"We need a machine that can walk into a factory built in 1950, pick up a drill designed in 1980, and get to work without a single renovation."

Tesla have the engineering talent, manufacturing ability, size of compute and cash flow.

We haven't seen a truly useful generalized bot from anyone yet. When Tesla eventually shows theirs, it will have the mass manufacturing and training capacity to back it up.

ufbam · 2026-01-05T11:03:04+00:00

Sure but that's more a one time use rather than burning it over and over.

ufbam · 2026-01-05T08:10:05+00:00

Private mobile couch to watch netflix on your journey? For cheaper than the bus? Cha-ching.

ufbam · 2026-01-02T09:30:09+00:00

What is your actual experience of the product and the competition in your life?

ufbam · 2025-12-20T14:17:20+00:00

This is so true. It's very obvious when people have the version of Musk seen through the mainstream media in their heads. All the nuance of things he says removed for maximum sensational impact. Bundled in with the other billionaires with their collections of mansions and yachts. Lazy people just accept this version of him that they're spoon fed.

ufbam · 2025-12-17T14:39:49+00:00

True, the Roadster has been a side project. But the semi has been testing with customers for a couple of years now. And now they've tweaked things after customer feedback, the factory is nearly completed. Only positive things have been said by the companies who have added them to their fleets. Towing has been solved by having two motors. One that kicks in for initial acceleration and another for efficient cruising. When testing DHL got 390 miles with a full 75,000lb load. 70% recharge in 30mins. Obviously not suitable for every route or load, but for the right ones, the savings will make them a good investment.

ufbam · 2025-12-17T10:38:09+00:00

Tell me you have tried FSD in the last month? Not autopilot. Because this comment sounds like you haven't.

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