As we reported last week, the “unsupervised” Robotaxis spotted on January 22 were all being followed by trailing Tesla vehicles with safety monitors inside.
Genius. Musk invented a taxi service that needs 2 cars and 2 drivers per ride.
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I can't wait for Musks dominoes to fall. Once Tesla investors realize their investment is worthless all his other companies he has cross leveraged everything with will all list start collapsing and the whole thing comes down.
That would be devastating to the markets, and it hasn't even address the AI bubble which is going to pop and the biggest economic downfall and depression in American history begins.
Tough times ahead no matter what, but the sooner Trump is gone they can start rebuilding.
The problem is that Tesla has become a self fulfilling prophecy. Not in any ability to actually make the products they advertise, but in making investors money. So many people have invested so much that the stock price now effectively describes investor’s aspirations for money, not their faith in Tesla. This has been true for some time. The value of the stock has been largely divorced from the reality of production targets, new products, or even the endless controversies.
Once Tesla investors realize their investment is worthless
that's going to take a long time
This is the same CEO who has promised “full self-driving next year” every year since 2018.
This is just plain lying by electrek...he started promising "self-driving next year" long before that.
You can go on the SpaceX website right now and book a trip to Mars for 2026.
Don't make me miss the good timeline like that
And The Music Man just announced this will be a monthly service to make stonk go up.
“The market will bear the cost”
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In a different time the SEC would have been all over this obvious stock market manipulation.
Next he will sell diagnostic machine that only needs one drop of blood.
I followed a link in that article to this one: Tesla didn’t remove the Robotaxi ‘safety monitor’ – it just moved them to a trailing car:
When Musk says there’s “no safety monitor in the car,” he’s technically telling the truth, the monitor is in a different car, following right behind. But the implication that Tesla has achieved true unsupervised autonomy is misleading at best.
Tesla has achieved remote control driving. It's the only taxi service that has 2 cars per fare.
So instead of just paying a human driver for a taxi they have instead decided to use 2 whole cars AND a human driver. That's peek efficiency there.
Oh, there's efficiency--just in the wrong place. He efficiently made a 4% bump in Tesla stock value by telling a few lies. That's all this is, and has been: profiting on hype/fomo.
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Double your traffic congestion, or your money back!
. . . or not, since I've never heard of Tesla voluntarily refunding anything.
On the earnings call yesterday, they claim (I haven't seen proof yet) that the chase car has been removed now.
Edit: Just updating with a quote someone transcribed. I thought it was paid rides with no chase car, but reading the actual quote, it sounds like they are claiming it is with nobody in the car and no chase car.
“We were able to do our first rides with no safety monitor in the car in Austin — these are paid rides, so these were just randomly paid rides with no safety monitor, and [umm] maybe as of maybe yesterday or so we actually don’t even have a chase car or anything like that so these are just cars with no people in them and no one’s following the car in Austin.”
The chase car has been removed - but no one's seen the self-driving cars either, not since the chase car was removed. It's another intentional misdirection.
I updated my post above with the actual quote after someone transcribed it. He's saying there's a car driving around with nobody in it, and no chase car, so not a paid passenger ride.
So I imagine it's going to be really difficult to get video proof of this if its true, because someone will have to spot a random Tesla driving around without a driver and bother to record it. It's not like an influencer is going to hail it and be able to video it.
Not gonna lie, when I heard it, it wasn't as clear that this was the case as when i see it written out.
Anything to distract from the fact that they're a car company selling fewer and fewer cars.
Tesla isn't a car company, it's a techbro company. They don't sell cars, they sell the idea that any day now they'll achieve a technological breakthrough.
But it's becoming obvious that won't happen, so they now pivot to robots. Selling the idea that they'll achieve a breakthrough in that space soon.
Those buying the products aren't the target audience, the investors are. The customers are just useful cattle.
Ah but now they're going to be a robot company selling fewer and fewer robots instead.
And an ai company with no ai product
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Fake it till you... Scratch that, just fake it.
make use of AI.
Actually Indians.
Herr Musk is a lying nazi, and anyone holding Tesla is a fool and will get what they deserve
I’m not so sure that everyone holding Tesla is going to get what they deserve anymore.
I agree they should get it, though.
At this point if one buys a Tesla vehicle anytime between '22 and today, it's on them
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