Tesla starts driverless robotaxi tests
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Tesla has reported yet another crash involving its Robotaxi fleet in Austin to the NHTSA. The new data keeps the program’s accident rate alarmingly high compared to human drivers, even as the company prepares to remove human safety supervisors from the vehicles.
Analyst Andrew Percoco and his team expect the company to increase its fleet size to 1,000 vehicles on the road in 2026, up from between 50 and 150 on the road today. By the end of 2035, Morgan Stanley expects Tesla ( TSLA) to have one million robotaxis on the road across multiple cities.
There are many clues that Tesla is using lots of remote monitoring and supervision, and possibly even remote driving, for their early tests. Optimus still does that.