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According to https://robotaxitracker.com/ https://robotaxitracker.com/ there are 7 unsupervised robotaxi in Austin right now.

DerekL 7mo ago
Are these the cars where the safety driver is in a car tailing the robotaxi, or do they actually run without the need for a safety driver? https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robotaxi-safety-monitor-it-just-moved-them-to-a-trailing-car/ https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robota...
- WarmWash 7mo ago
  It seems they run without a safety driver or follow car (mostly?). However the area it operates is extremely small, and they are still only allowing Tesla bros to try it.
  - senordevnyc 7mo ago
    So in other words, like literally every other word out of Elon’s mouth for a decade now, it’s incredibly dishonest. He lies about everything, all the time, without any acknowledgment. Nothing is ever delivered on time, most of it isn’t delivered at all, and virtually every bit of promised capability is exaggerated. Why does anyone want to do business with a person or company like that? I genuinely do not understand.
  - small_model 7mo ago
    Nope is open to the public and covers bigger area then Waymo. EDS is limiting a lot of people here's ability to critically evaluate the current autonomous auto rollout.
    - senordevnyc 7mo ago
      This is totally false. If there are any truly autonomous robotaxis in Austin (a bit if, since Tesla has repeatedly lied and faked things like this in the past), it’s only a handful and they’re limited to a tiny area. The “robotaxis” with a safety driver are the ones that have the bigger area, probably because Tesla sucks at actual self-driving. Still. After a decade of broken promises and shitty engineering practices. Elon has been blatantly lying about FSD for years, and yet the fans still take whatever he says as gospel. And yet the skeptics are the ones with EDS? lol, ok.
    - WarmWash 7mo ago
      The unsupervised area is a tiny subset of the supervised area.
      - small_model 7mo ago
        Any evidence of this?, even it its true right now, and they are being ultra cautious, (they are hardly going to just dump 100k unsupervised teslas in one week), it won't stay that way for long. They will overtake Waymo in a few months, then kill them by the end of the year.
        WarmWash 7mo ago
        https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1qvf7hu/tesla_unsupervised_robotaxi_in_austin_is_limited/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1qvf7hu/te... It's unsurprising someone so out of the loop on its true status is so hyped on it's future... If robotaxi was doing legit rides, Elon would be posting about it 20 times a day.
        small_model 7mo ago
        Reddit is extremely anti Musk and Tesla, that sub reddit being the typical example. Let's just wait and see where we are in 6 months.
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DerekL 7mo ago

Are these the cars where the safety driver is in a car tailing the robotaxi, or do they actually run without the need for a safety driver? https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robotaxi-safety-monitor-it-just-moved-them-to-a-trailing-car/ https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robota...

WarmWash 7mo ago
It seems they run without a safety driver or follow car (mostly?). However the area it operates is extremely small, and they are still only allowing Tesla bros to try it.
- senordevnyc 7mo ago
  So in other words, like literally every other word out of Elon’s mouth for a decade now, it’s incredibly dishonest. He lies about everything, all the time, without any acknowledgment. Nothing is ever delivered on time, most of it isn’t delivered at all, and virtually every bit of promised capability is exaggerated. Why does anyone want to do business with a person or company like that? I genuinely do not understand.
- small_model 7mo ago
  Nope is open to the public and covers bigger area then Waymo. EDS is limiting a lot of people here's ability to critically evaluate the current autonomous auto rollout.
  - senordevnyc 7mo ago
    This is totally false. If there are any truly autonomous robotaxis in Austin (a bit if, since Tesla has repeatedly lied and faked things like this in the past), it’s only a handful and they’re limited to a tiny area. The “robotaxis” with a safety driver are the ones that have the bigger area, probably because Tesla sucks at actual self-driving. Still. After a decade of broken promises and shitty engineering practices. Elon has been blatantly lying about FSD for years, and yet the fans still take whatever he says as gospel. And yet the skeptics are the ones with EDS? lol, ok.
  - WarmWash 7mo ago
    The unsupervised area is a tiny subset of the supervised area.
    - small_model 7mo ago
      Any evidence of this?, even it its true right now, and they are being ultra cautious, (they are hardly going to just dump 100k unsupervised teslas in one week), it won't stay that way for long. They will overtake Waymo in a few months, then kill them by the end of the year.
      - WarmWash 7mo ago
        https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1qvf7hu/tesla_unsupervised_robotaxi_in_austin_is_limited/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1qvf7hu/te... It's unsurprising someone so out of the loop on its true status is so hyped on it's future... If robotaxi was doing legit rides, Elon would be posting about it 20 times a day.
        small_model 7mo ago
        Reddit is extremely anti Musk and Tesla, that sub reddit being the typical example. Let's just wait and see where we are in 6 months.
- deleted 7mo ago
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