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The supervisors are not in the driver's seat.
by fastball 1y ago
The supervisors are not in the driver's seat.
- Workaccount2 1y agohttps://electrek.co/2025/09/03/tesla-moves-robotaxi-safety-monitor-passenger-drivers-seat/ https://electrek.co/2025/09/03/tesla-moves-robotaxi-safety-m... The day this news was released, Elon released the video of him talking to the Optimus bot to overshadow the news. Showman gonna showman.
- fastball 1y agoTIL. I stand corrected. Though worth pointing out (as the article does) that on September 1st, new legislation in Texas was passed adding some restrictions to autonomous vehicles. So seems reasonably likely this is more regulatory than necessary.
- FireBeyond 1y agoI wonder what motivated Texas, who was famously very open to such testing, to tighten down the regulations more after time?
- fastball 1y agoI take back my "standing corrected" actually. It appears that the safety person being in the driver seat is only for trips involving highways, which Waymo hasn't launched yet either.