The Robotaxi "trial" in Austin has a chance to be supremely embarrassing and potentially ruinous, depending on just how weird it gets. Waymos get stuck doing we

The Robotaxi "trial" in Austin has a chance to be supremely embarrassing and potentially ruinous, depending on just how weird it gets. Waymos get stuck doing weird stuff sometimes, which makes the news, but broadly speaking, they've completed 10 million paid, driverless rides, and their accident/injury rate is provably lower than human drivers, and there have been, to my recollection, essentially no catastrophic Waymo-faulted pedestrian interactions (ala the original Uber issues). Owing to the difference in sensor suite, I'm curious if Tesla FSD will be able to truly keep that same margin of safety, but I'm not super confident, and having to pause or rollback the trial would be a big hit in the underlying "value" of TSLA, I reckon.