Will Tesla Robotaxis Live Up To 10 Years Of Development And Hype?

For a decade, Elon Musk has championed the idea that one day Tesla cars will drive themselves as robotaxis. On October 10, the company plans to reveal a “dedicated robotaxi” design at an invitation-only event in Los Angeles.
Despite years of bold predictions and missed deadlines, fans of the company are holding out hope that Musk will finally deliver. Regardless of what the company showcases at its robotaxi day, experts are skeptical of the company’s strategy, citing its Auotpilot and Full Self-Driving technology as a barometer for Tesla’s progress, or lack thereof.
While Tesla has been developing its autonomous vehicles, competitors like Google-owned Waymo and Chinese companies like Pony.ai and Baidu have already launched commercial robotaxi services.
With U.S. EV sales growth slowing, there’s a lot riding on Tesla’s potential pivot to autonomy. CNBC explores whether the company is ready for robotaxis and if Musk’s vision for driverless Teslas will become a reality anytime soon.
Correction:
2:41 The event date is mislabeled. The correct event is the Tesla Annual Shareholder Meeting, which occurred on June 13, 2024.
Chapters:
3:18 Ch 1 - Tesla’s vision for autonomy
6:33 Ch 2 - Full self-driving
10:13 Ch 3 - Realizing the robotaxi
15:34 Ch 4 - Sizing up the robotaxi competition
Produced and Shot by: Andrew Evers
Additional Reporting: Lora Kolodny
Edited by: Andrew Evers, Erin Black
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Camera: Katie Tarasov, Lisa Setyon
Graphics by: Jason Reginato
Narration: Robert Ferris
Additional Footage: Cruise, Getty Images, Tesla, Waymo, Zoox
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Will Tesla Robotaxis Live Up To 10 Years Of Development And Hype?

[@namsmog]

I have used Tesla FSD since 2018. It was scary in city driving but doing good in freeway driving. And it improved about 1 to 2 percent bettter with every update but still not good enough for me to drive in city street confidently until the last major update which they switch from commmand code to Artificial Inteligent technology. And this is a game changer, it drives really good in city street right now and i use it everyday confidently.

[@someuser7501]

Totally agree. Before the AI things were 2 steps forward and 1 step back.

[@chm2]

It will never be good enough to drive in downtown conditions. Just thinking about the construction zone I drove through yesterday and the orange cones were so ambiguously placed.

[@someuser7501]

@chm2 Instead of spending all this time "thinking" why don't you take a ride in one through the cones to see for yourself how it reacts. That's exactly what people with FSD do everyday with new construction sites. They aren't hiding from them. Plenty of videos showing it navigating construction cones. There are people submitting videos of failures to help train the AI for weird scenarios it screwed up in. It learns from example.

[@michaelcadden1464]

We will be the conservative old people against mandated self driving tech in a few decades.

[@The_Quaalude]

Lol you're white 😂

[@user-ns7ip8qy9l]

Tesla stock will be at 0 and we'll be riding around in Google waymos.

[@ZoomZoomMX3]

No to self driving vehicles. They have killed and no one is responsible or held accountable.

[@Celestara]

I love cnbc documentaries they are my go to relaxation 😊

[@Jay-eb7ik]

they are trash and full of bias information

[@Skyking6976]

Took delivery of a Model Y the end of July. Thought FSD was a gimmick. It’s not. As someone in their mid-60’s, I’m done with driving if the car can drive itself. I push the right roller wheel, tell the car where I want to go, pull down the right stalk and relax. The only problem are things where other drivers don’t do what they’re suppose to do. Like yesterday, an ole boy pulls on the interstate, I’m in the left lane to pass him but he forgot to turn off his blinker. The car doesn’t know what that car is doing. I completely understand the logic being on the spectrum myself the car thinks exactly like I do about things😏

[@AznPrzsn]

That’s the thing, if only Everyone was using a self-driving car, we’d be fine. Plain and simple think about it. The cars could communicate and drive Around each other better than stupid humans ever could.

[@OctavianKaijage]

I'm skeptical of Elon musk. He over promises and under delivers.

[@MrKaneshiro1966]

Skeptical? Are you stoned?

[@isaksidenius7059]

He promesis and delays over delivery Again and Again they are late to the party but they always executes unlike all their competition.

[@supee7541]

@@isaksidenius7059 Hyperloop, their rockets instead of a plane, he also promised electric VTOL supersonic jet...

[@S13-w4k]

Much of what you’re reporting is completely false

[@quinnsmith4736]

Mainstream media are just bunch liars. The country is going to be ruined by these liars

[@i6power30]

@@S13-w4k much what you are saying has absolutely no substance

[@tsherin6306]

CNBS

[@chang-kp9sp]

Not at all, MIT professor point out that FSD is only SAE level 2 that should not be called robo taxi. Current camera on Tesla models are really unreliable at night or dusk . Without LiDAR or ultrasound, how Tesla could achieve Full self driving is mystery.

[@Hans-gb4mv]

@@chang-kp9sp have the sun right in front of you, low above the horizon. Good luck with vision only. One of the first fatalities with Tesla's Autopilot was because of such an incident, but what was worse was that that car was equipped with radar and Autopilot decided to ignore the radar and give priority to vision which to this day is mindboggling to me. If one source says: there's an object in front of you and the other says there isn't. Why not play it safe?

[@rioriggs3568]

Dan Ives is in for the surprise of his life... In 2025 Tesla won't get approval for FSD (still decades away), won't have robotaxis, won't have a Model 2, won't have a $61,000 Cybertruck and won't have growth. During the recession, we're expecting the stock to drop under $100.

[@FumbledorfTTR]

2:42 That was not Cyber Rodeo 2022 it was the annual shareholder meeting in June of this year.

[@hichams4445]

I am very confident to say that Elon is an unpleasant person.

[@MrKaneshiro1966]

Why would you say that? Please quantify!

[@rtothec1234]

If the Cybertruck is any indication…

[@kaym7704]

He’s just trying to pump the stock…again.

[@MacDaddy8200]

No, FSD hasnt improved much in a decade now why should it suddenly be different and its still only 109 miles per intervention while WAYMO is 12.000 miles per intervention.. Elon Musk is just like Elisabeth Holmes and Trevor Milton. And dont be fooled when they reveal it, they are training it hard to drive on WB parking lots, but thats not real world use.

[@Skyking6976]

LOVE the latest FSD that was installed last week over air. Use it 99% of the time. There are times when I turn it off and it hasn’t done anything wrong. I decide to pull in somewhere off the route and a screen pops up asking what happened. You can push the roller wheel and give an audible description but I don’t because it didn’t do anything wrong. Is that considered an “intervention”? I honestly don’t know but it shouldn’t.

[@BenefitOfTheDoubtInquiry]

Okay Diddy

[@NorwayChallenge]

It's absolute vaporware and marketing bs. It's just that Tesla stock's insanely inflated value is completely based on it so Tesla has to keep the lie alive in order for the stock not to crash.

[@dijikstra8]

I've said for years now that using only cameras is just dumb. I understand the motivation, it's cheaper, but cameras are still nowhere near the efficiency of human eyes, especially in low light conditiions. Even if you can ultimately do it, radar/lidar still provides more safety. Just because *humans* can only see with their eyes doesn't mean we have to limit self-driving vehicles in the same way.

[@Bortniky]

FSD is incredibly impressive and with the latest updates I use it often. But you absolutely have to be ready to take over. It does make silly mistakes 😊

[@bpolat]

Elon Musk is the best con man in Silicon Valley.

[@jacekmarczyk4436]

Why would anyone want a car with FSD? There already exist cars that you don't need to drive, just say the address where you want to go. These are called taxis.

[@Skyking6976]

I do that now in my new Model Y. I push the right rollerball thing and tell it where I want to go. Pull down the right stalk and I take my hands off the wheel and enjoy the ride.

[@Jackolivierbo]

It is one of the most challenging endeavor. Why not respect and Be happy an American company will most likely succeed at it first. And once again take on the world. 😊

[@ParsaUndead]

Like it or not, the FSD technology is miles ahead of the competition in offering autonomous driving in a passenger vehicle available for purchase today. The latest update doesn't require you to hold the steering wheel anymore either as long as you keep your eyes on the road.

[@tomnguyen9931]

If you can't drive your own vehicle, then you should walks!

[@Hans-gb4mv]

Tesla still requires you to supervise the car, and while they have made advancements over the years, people still have to take over way too often to simply say that this is ready for an autonomous vehicle. And as mentioned in the video: no, current Teslas are not designed to be autonomous taxis. Even if they could drive autonomously one day, you are still lacking so much functionality.

[@BenefitOfTheDoubtInquiry]

​@@tomnguyen9931 Why not let it act safer and smoother than you

[@MuiKaHo]

@@BenefitOfTheDoubtInquiry but its not... it acts weirdly in traffic endangering everyone.

[@bpolat]

it is far from truth. Google and Biudu is leading.

[@titanlacrosse780]

total side note, somewhat a nerd about this but why are they showing the really dated versions of the FSD/autopilot in the beginning of this video? I get in the start of the video it was based on the past but when they moved on, they still were showing old UI and such? They should've showed the new FSD and A.S.S.

[@tomnguyen9931]

Are you telling me the the "new" version is better at killing the owners of the car better than the old one. Musk ODOR is all about monies and they used everyone to that end just like his love DADDY the Orange BLOB!

[@Bortniky]

12.5 is phenomenal

[@MrGayle_]

Agree, the nee FSD is amazing. I've watch so many videos of tesla owners being fully driven home lol

[@Hans-gb4mv]

Is the B-roll really that important?

[@Tjmalloy2]

​@Hans-gb4mv no, but why use old ass footage? This is supposed to be news

[@decourter]

Sounds pretty negative reporting but I have FSD and the latest versions are amazing to me. This is the hardest software application ever attempted to concur and it takes time.

[@gsogymrat]

I have FSD and it cannot drive 7 miles to my workplace without making a mistake. I love my Tesla Model 3 but FSD still is not good enough in an urban environment.

[@i6power30]

It'll never be ready until AI can achieve human level intelligence.. And when it does, you don't have to worry about going to work at all .

[@someuser7501]

FSD works fine in the Boston area..even through Harvard Square on Mass Ave which is full of high IQ morons who don't look both ways when crossing streets while walking/jogging/biking

[@MrKaneshiro1966]

what version are you using?

[@gsogymrat]

@@MrKaneshiro1966 Version 12.3.6 in a 2023 Model 3.

[@zSion]

you're probably on an old update then, it's really good now

[@quinnsmith4736]

To evil media people, try the new FSD software, you know it’s better. Tell me who else has what Tesla had it now.

[@h-e-acc]

If they bring seamless level 5 autonomy on 10/10, then yes, it will be ready

[@i6power30]

If AI becomes that good it'll be way more than just FSD. Think cure for cancer, nuclear fusion. Everything humans aren't smart enough to solve the AI will

[@uvwxyzero]

You honestly believe they have level 5 now? 😂

[@Ellerich800]

Forget just hailing a Robotaxi, you'll be able to BUY one on Oct 10th! My prediction: Tesla's unveiling a Robotaxi that converts to a personal car with an optional steering wheel for just $25k

[@mackan7086]

Yeah you will probably be able to buy one, but it won't be ready by a long shot. Typical Tesla style that is. Selling unfinished features and let the customers work as unpaid testers

[@isaksidenius7059]

I Think so as Well the first car that Will be a good investment. Cant wait for it to be available in Europe!

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

​@@mackan7086you won't be able to buy one It's a robotaxi. It'll be like e scooters lime and bolt

[@stargazer3828]

The bigger question is if and when we get to a point of FSD unsupervised and as an owner I lend my car out to a robotaxi ride sharing service and it gets in an accident that ends up killing a pedestrian who is liable FSD/Tesla or the owner of the vehicle???????

[@Skyking6976]

I think that and a few other things have to be worked out like charging while doing robotaxi. The latest update with the “summon” is incredible, I tried it on Monday coming out of the movie theater. Tesla is gonna “summon” cars for people who want to participate in this business arrangement. Imagine some kid buying a Tesla and loaning it out while he’s at work to help make the monthly payment. October 10 will be an announcement of robotaxi starting at a future date, in my opinion and that’s fine.

[@bigtvjunky9119]

Actual balanced report with a mix of Dan Ives fantasy land predictions and the real-world difficulties of achieving driving automation.

[@pauljamieson803]

So far the only true Robo-Taxi I know of is Waymo. They seem to be way more ahead of Tesla at this time.. tho they are only available in certain cities at the moment.

[@martalli]

Quit talking about FSD and just do it. Tesla's visibility is enough now that it can no longer make promises and not fulfill them.

[@mikafiltenborg7572]

Tesla model Y was the Best selling carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023 🎉🏆🥇

[@no_name5002]

Build rails, bike infrastructure, and sensible mixed use zoning.

[@jokulhaups309]

It used to be YOUR car can be the taxi and you could earn so much and your vehicle be more valuable. What’s wrong with this is every locality is different. They could ban you, might need approval from ever little town or city your car would go to, and your insurance will charge you through the roof especially if your not in it

[@M3M3M32]

Seems like a ton of legal troubles here if there is an actual robot taxi with no human driver. Is the customer or Tesla accountable if an accident happens?

[@MrGayle_]

The new FSD is pretty amazing tbh, the whole mars channel shows how great it is, driving to LAX and all sorts easily

[@iissam280]

It is alawys the ignorants who snubs the intelligents. They think technology is developping itself by itself.....😂😂😂

[@shaunstark4263]

Gee, isn’t that the concept of AI?

[@pedromarques9267]

CNBC has one of the most biased new reports I've ever seen in terms of eletric cars. If you want unbiased reports, please see other news channels

[@amirriahi529]

#conmanmusk to jail

[@behrensf84]

It’s like watching a magician go on and on. I’m ready to see the rabbit come out of the hat…

[@stephen_lee10]

I am more worried about being able to afford a tesla.

[@randomguy7175]

AI can never predict stupidity of human drivers... To succeed, all cars should be AI

[@brandonhunter3036]

I’d gladly pay more for a human to avoid a Tesla Taxi.

[@someuser7501]

When people start fixating on the man instead of the product we can understand why we are doomed to always lose to China. Plus they laugh at Democracy as a waste of resources bickering over people's personas instead of focusing on economic results.

[@MrMlbfan6]

@@someuser7501 we’re doomed due to the corruption we have tbh

[@user-yz3uz4ny8j]

​@@someuser7501we are falling behind because of all these hate behavior.

[@someuser7501]

@user-yz3uz4ny8j Maybe we should boycott buying food grown in the US because our farmers are draining ground aquifers. Let's just buy imports as our farmers are terrible people!! That'll teach them!!!

[@robadr13]

Great technology, and obviously a huge market, but I think people tend to forget that robotaxis will be operating on the same streets as all other vehicles in our cities - and there aren't room for many more. Robotaxis will likely replace driven taxis, but Musk's apparent fantasy of robotaxis making a huge dent in urban transportation ignores the physical reality that there's no room for two or three or five times as many private vehicles driving (or parking) on our streets. The ludicrous scenario would be hundreds of empty robotaxis cruising already jammed city streets on their way to or from single-occupancy fare-paying rides. Cities, I think, will simply not allow it. The FSD application I'd be most excited about is city busses (a drastic reduction in operating costs and a corresponding opportunity for much more frequent service), and electrified, self-driving transport trucks. Given that city busses travel on single, limited routes, and at much lower speeds, that could potentially be much easier to achieve.

[@stargazer3828]

I think Elon said that with Robotaxis most people will opt to not own a vehicle and eliminate recurring charges such as registration, insurance, maintenance, charging fees and depreciation. He envisions people using a car as a service (CAAS) and just pay a monthly subscription fee to have the ability to call on a robotaxi at any time they need one via an app! It sounds good on paper, but real life is much harder!

[@robadr13]

@@stargazer3828 He's also been promoting the idea though that your car can be out 'driving around and making money' for you, implying that many more people will now be able to get around cities in private vehicles. There just isn't the road space in any true urban area for any increase in single-occupancy vehicle traffic. Suburbs ('last mile' trips) maybe, but not cities. The 'hyper-loop' fantasy (individual vehicles being transported up and down in huge platform elevators from city streets to underground tunnels) is even more bizarre. Elon is clearly a genius in many respects, but I think he's seriously off base in some of his urban transportation ideas.

[@pranshukrishna5105]

remember waymo also has rideship agent helping the Car as needed

[@someuser7501]

Is everybody poor at CNBC and driving old Pintos? Why do you need to go out and find a Tesla owner?? The Model Y is a top seller. Next are you going to go out on the streets and look for an iPhone owner to find out how they work? There has to be someone at CNBC with a Tesla you can pay $99 to have FSD turned on and you can play with it for a month.

[@JamesRussoMillas]

Elon the boy who cried robotaxi

[@Jay-eb7ik]

you should short his company

[@anonymous..-]

Ain’t gonna happen. You can get ambushed and robbed in a robo taxi. A robo taxi can’t do evasive maneuvers and will instead just stop in place. They’ll become an easy target for thieves in some areas.

[@ThaRealDeejayThaBarber]

You must live in IRAQ🤷🏾‍♂️

[@ZoomZoomMX3]

Hell no. These things get confused when people wear a T-shirt that has a stop sign design on them.

[@Alexzw92]

Eventually, Yes

[@BureaucracyWorld]

RoboTaxi must carry insurance of 15 million per passenger. Otherwise, I wouldn't ride on it.

[@aadityachourasia2124]

2 yeara maximum ! Tesla will do it

[@ZoomZoomMX3]

3:04 imagine you wake up you vehicles trashed and batteries dead but you made $3.50 Stupidity at its greatest.

[@greg_289]

The people talking in this video seriously have no idea what they’re talking about.

[@jasonlucas2328]

Musk had a habit of missing promises. Is it the definition of a con man?

[@rasjahson6261]

NO! Elon Musk needs to spend billions of hours in these vehicles and test them himself. He needs to put his own life on the line. Burbank? Those cars will definitely crash in heavy traffic in Burbank. I see Waymo in Phoenix every time I’m there. I wouldn’t risk my life in that car either.

[@viewer_5714]

He has done that already for years now

[@kirkhilles523]

LOL. Look, I'm a big Tesla fan and love my AP1 Model S, but if you have any real expectations of something substantial then you are a fool. If its a vehicle of some sort, it'll be little more than a prototype just like every other vehicle "release" has been. If it's a software update, then what exactly do you think has changed that hasn't been released in Beta form that will be giant leap? Musk gets hated on, but lets face it - ALL car manufacturers claim what they want with no repercussions. Every single manufacturer claimed that they'd have Level 5 by 2020 and here we are in late 2024 and nowhere close. They claim that all of their new vehicles would be electric and no more ICE but there's not a single manufacturer that is even close to that. You claim what you want and make excuses when it doesn't even close to happening.

[@Skyking6976]

For me with a 2 month old Model Y, the latest hardware, the over air update which included summon is incredible. Tried it the other day at the movie theater. Stood outside and watched the car pull out of my parking space and drive to me. That’s got to be part of this new era. Tesla can “summon” your car if one has signed up their car to participate.

[@tedtyler9336]

no

[@auro1986]

will they get any passengers other than cnbc?

[@ethanog2379]

I use the newest version for delivery

[@madhavyu]

More vaporware on Oct 10!

[@dylankeller3324]

Yes. It will

[@TrevX2001]

Since 2017, at least 370 people in Florida have been killed by trains belonging to 13 different companies, according to a TCPalm analysis in 2023. Of those, 97 were killed by Brightline trains, the new high speed rail system that travels from south florida to Orlando. But let’s only focus on Teslq

[@kapilkulkarni6309]

Really great research. Gathering all earing call clips and government data make it quality video.

[@allangreif8700]

Tesla vehicle sales are slowing but they had another record deliveries this quarter. Why is CNBC so bad at reporting unbiased media?

[@agya2042]

Who knew Tesla was/is a scam! 😂

[@MrStrife622]

There is so much misinformation in this..

[@eklim2034]

Fake it til you made it

[@concentricholdings6029]

12.3.6, really, a very outdated build. Try 12.5.4 or later on hardware 4, day and night…

[@none23517]

I have a model 3 and self driving isnt ready yet even with the latest ver. it tried to go into the ez-pass always even when the road is closed and it can see the close blocks on the road. EVERY TIME. 8000 dollars to get myself killed lol

[@233hao]

Why not a bus or a train. Oh those don’t work on a different earth 😢

[@angusor8718]

7:27 Why is the owner stillusing 12.3.6 ? when the latest isslready 1.2.5.4

[@clockwise104]

FSD is the way…

[@clown-eating-hippo]

No. Saved you 20 minutes.

[@veizagajp]

Yes

[@xmatterdaily]

Aim for Mars you may reach moon

[@markboomgaarden4679]

All these pieces about being “late”…. They are working on SELF DRIVING CARS people! I think the real angst should be directed to companies who have made the same basic cars for 50 years. At least Tesla is moving innovation forward.

[@frankhamric9257]

Give up Elon just give up dude.

[@jessemaxwell8815]

Has *anything* from Tesla *ever* lived up to its hype?

[@Skyking6976]

My new Model Y is the #1 selling vehicle…in the world. #2 in the US last I checked so…

[@nordicvolkan]

Snake oil pure & simple.

[@SnappyWasHere]

FSD is so much safer than the people I see staring down at their phones. At least the car is watching the road!

[@user-ns7ip8qy9l]

Trash. Scam.

[@ShadYYZ]

So what if perfection is late for FSD (and by extension "robotaxi"), it's still the best product out there for chauffeuring you around, i use it to tag out to let it drive in traffic. Hate the personality of the man, but the technology (even late) is great.

[@Axrx277]

Biased reporting

[@The_Quaalude]

How much did Elon pay you for this ad? 😂

[@wt9653]

CNBC should be called the Tesla and EV misinformation media. I clicked on it as soon as I saw CNBC's replay of the video from 10 years ago. It is October 2, 2024. 😂

[@drewhjava]

FSD 12.3.6. Ok, stopped watching at that point. The strides it's made since that version are insane.

[@xWhizard]

Answer- no

[@OctavianKaijage]

This will never happen

[@Nunya-lz9ey]

Lora Kolodny lol. Get out of here

[@dafuzze3]

I guess CNBC is really desperate for clicks with this hit piece.

[@tonystorcke]

This is hardly a pivot. This has been the plan all along. I can say that FSD is already better than the average human driver. The market will not be satisfied until FSD is far better than even the best driver. This is only a matter of time because the system keeps learning.

[@krishnachandramenon8]

All auto companies give false promises Toyota has launching solid state battery from 2014

[@camgere]

Toyota has targeted 2026 or 2027 for years. Engineering is done when it is done.

[@gsogymrat]

"False promises" is a polite way of saying "lies." Just because other people lie does not excuse Elon Musk. I don't trust him.

[@mikafiltenborg7572]

CYBERTRUCK = Best selling EV pick-up truck in USA 🎉🏆🥇

[@miguel3079]

😮 let see about that

[@TobiasStarling]

No

[@tomtom9879]

very thorough report! ,,👍

[@Thrawn90]

FSD is legit. Almost always use it. People who mock it clearly haven't used it. Not to say it's perfect or above valid critisism

[@juhavirtanen1987]

Like If u watched Vance-Waltz debate

[@pranshukrishna5105]

why can't new dealerships be formed with only aim of promoting electric vehicles, Tesla should definitily try these

[@The_Quaalude]

Huh 😂

[@JoaquimSantos]

they seem to want to control the all process

[@marylandterpz]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@richard77231]

Dealerships add a markup to the customer, which is unneeded. Also, with Telsa's requiring much less maintenance, I imagine dealerships are harder to generate revenue without the repair revenue. Besides, Tesla's desire for vertical integration conflicts with the idea of farming out sales/service to another third party. The only benefit to dealerships is legal, getting past state laws blocking direct sales, which should exist (at least in the case of Tesla and other companies who don't have dealership model in the first place).

[@quinnsmith4736]

Why do we wanted the stealship , we bought the 23 Tesla model y, never had a problem, the transaction was so simple, it’s save the headache from going to dealship, people should go to KZbin learns about the Tesla sales transaction experience, it’s so simple and headache free, there is no sleazy salesman hovering over you.

[@Ash-zx5wu]

I'd give it another 2 years for Waymo vs 3-4 for Telsa. I actually agree with Telsa's former lead FSD engineer, they are closer than Waymo in the sense of scale, multipurposiness - I'm sure in the future Telsa owners can upgrade their cars to become eligible for the FSD ridesharing market. I think that will keep MORE cars off the road. That said, I think these numbers are scales above what is predicted. I think people would be more hesitant to use FSD vechicles at least in the next 5 years or so until the tech has become safer. By the data alone in Telsa car's if you end up in an accident while the car is self-driving, you have a ~2% of fatality (death - 31 out of 1399). That is an insanely high percentage, for reference the national average on car accident fatality is roughly 16 for every 100k. Also there is no driver so if the service is as expensive, its smarter for the consumer to take a regular taxi/Uber so expect the cost of the rides to decrease sigificantly or this entire venture to fail miserably or only with lobbied legislation to ban/heavily tax private cars in cities. That is where Musk has the advantage having such a large marke share for so long, if he is able to figure out true autonomous driving, then the smart move would be to upgrade vechicles to be able to do so... for a price. That way liability is also transfered to the car owner rather than against the tech company in the case of accidents.

[@MrStrife622]

Waymo is not scalable.

[@tomnguyen9931]

LISTEN! Landing rocker is EASY! Having a vehicles driving itself with all the other ever changing factors made it million times harder!