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Tesla launched its “Robotaxi” service in Austin eight months ago. In that time, Elon Musk promised 500 cars in Austin, coverage for half the US population, fully unsupervised rides, and expansion to 8-10 cities, all by the end of 2025. None of it happened.

Today, the service has roughly 42 cars in Austin, availability below 20%, a crash rate 9 times worse than human drivers, and the “unsupervised” rides Musk hyped before earnings have vanished from the tracker.

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[–] circuitfarmer 33 points 3 weeks ago

Musk is a hype man and a con man. Nothing more. A stupid man's idea of what a smart man looks and acts like.

The failed promises have not been surprising for a long time. What is surprising is how much money people still throw at the man.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Driverless cars are supposed to be better at not crashing, not worse. This one is on Tesla.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not to mention that Google, to pick one example, has had driverless cars that had a much better accident rate than humans years back. This is something where the technology exists...it's just Tesla not executing on it.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Elon is full of shit

In other news water is wet

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm sure this is because he's busy building all those affordable robots we will soon all have in our homes helping us.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"I would totally love to fulfill my prior promises, but I'm so busy making new, larger promises that there just isn't enough time in the day."

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah probably breaking stuff and hurting people.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, Musk made promises, so it’s safe to assume they’ll never happen. I thought everyone knew this already?