Project
Tesla's autonomous ride-hailing service, launched in Austin in 2025, which operates Tesla vehicles including the Cybercab as a driverless taxi network.
Tesla says more than 300 Cybercabs now serve Austin, eight times the count of 30 days earlier. The post counts vehicles only, so how often those cars carry paying riders, the real test of a ride network, remains undisclosed.
Reality
Waymo staff watching two teens through a cabin camera called 911 over a gun that fired water-filled Orbeez. Robotaxi cameras now feed both human reviewers and automated violation checks, so telling riders who is watching has become a design choice AV teams have to make on purpose.
Reality
An hour of paid rides in the wheel-free two-seater shows software that drives passably and a service that fumbles the last fifty feet, where a human driver used to quietly handle the stopping and the door.
Reality
Robotaxi Tracker says every Austin ride it logged over two weeks ran unsupervised, seven months after Musk said the monitors were gone. The instrument is one person's crowdsourced site.
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3 publishersReality
The Transportation Authority's interim order caps the Strip fleet at 10, bars airport pick-ups and requires human supervision. Zoox's three million logged miles set the template.
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