The company said that Tesla owners could possibly transform their own cars into autonomous taxis which can collect prices when they are not used. But the company did not publish any calendar on Sunday for this plan.
Tesla driving aid technology has been the subject of federal safety probes, two reminders and complaints from customers related to the reports that vehicles suddenly brake without apparent reason and can collide with stationary objects, including emergency vehicles. This technology, which includes the old functionality of the automatic pilot and the new complete autonomous functionality (supervised), is distinct from the autonomous functionalities of Tesla. With the assistance characteristics, drivers must stay behind the wheel and keep your eyes on the road at any time. Autonomous features do not require any action or attention of the driver.
Problems with these older technologies raise questions about the security of Tesla’s new autonomous technologies, explains Sam Abuelsamid, a car analyst who focuses on autonomous technology at Telemetry Insight. The full driving (supervised) “will work well for perhaps hours at a time and then make very serious errors in a very serious way which are not necessarily reproducible,” he said.
Unlike other autonomous technology developers, who use a number of more expensive sensors to detect obstacles around their vehicles, Tesla only depends on the cameras. Some experts have questioned this choice, which could potentially cause problems with sunburn And was blamed for previous Tesla collisions with emergency vehicles. But financial experts say that the approach could give Tesla an advantage to obtain its cheaper technology more quickly in consumers’ hands.
Tesla did not answer questions about the safety of robotaximes. Musk said earlier this month that the company “was super paranoid about security”.
Heavy traffic
Tesla enters a sudden American autonomous vehicle space. Waymo launched for the first time a driverless service in Metro Phoenix, Arizona in 2020, and now works in parts of the San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin region. It should soon be opened in Atlanta, Georgia, and Miami, Florida, where customers can order a waymo using the Uber application.
Zoox belonging to Amazon says that he will launch his own autonomous service in Las Vegas later this year. May Mobility aims to offer journeys around Atlanta via the Lyft application this year. The Moia de VW subsidiary announced this spring that it would launch an autonomous service in Los Angeles in 2026, also on the Uber application.
The experiences of these companies show that Tesla has several logistical obstacles to jump before its Robotaxi service is widely developed. There are human roles: distance assistance workers could be on site to help confusing cyclists remotely; Maintenance workers can repair cars during their downtime; The cleaners could eliminate garbage, lost objects or everything that is worse by horsemen.
There are also infrastructure needs. Moia de VW has operated an electric carpooling service in Hamburg, Germany since 2019, using this experience to prepare driver -free cars. The company has determined that it will need a well -developed and decentralized imprint in all the IT services in the city. The dispersed deposits “will host the vehicles and provide a load and maintenance infrastructure, as well as the possibility of making constant security checks for the vehicle,” explains Sascha Meyer, CEO of the company.
In other words: there is a large difference between a handful of autonomous cars and an autonomous service.
