"When Tesla launched its Robotaxi service last summer, it came with an embarrassing caveat. Sitting in the front of each of the vehicles were human "safety monitors" who stuck out like sore thumbs - contradicting CEO Elon Musk's promises that the service would hit the road fully driverless. That the silent human employees sat in the front passenger seat, instead of the driver's, only served to further underscore how Musk had speciously weaseled his way out being true to his word."
"But hold your horses and runaway self-driving cars, because this appears to be another bit of deception. The EV blog Electrek reports that instead of supervising from inside the vehicle, it now appears that the safety monitors are simply watching from a car that follows the Robotaxis throughout their entire trips - a Rube Goldberg-style workaround that illustrates the lengths Musk will go to keep up a charade of progress."
Tesla launched its Robotaxi service with visible human "safety monitors" seated in the front, contradicting promises of fully driverless operation. Over half a year later, Elon Musk announced Robotaxis would start giving rides in Austin "with no safety monitor in the car." Observers recorded cabs operating without occupants while separate black Teslas followed as chase cars, appearing to carry the safety monitors throughout trips. The chase-car approach preserves human supervision while removing monitors from inside the vehicles. Tesla's self-driving software has suffered accidents, traffic-law violations, erratic driving, and incidents requiring human monitors to intervene.
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