"Tesla secured a series of approvals from California required for a promised robotaxi service.
The California Public Utilities Commission said it approved Tesla’s application for a transportation charter-party carrier permit, a license typically associated with chauffeur-operated services, allowing the company to own and control a fleet of vehicles and transport employees on pre-arranged trips.
The permit is a prerequisite for applying to operate an autonomous ride-hailing service in California, but a CPUC spokesperson said the current permit “does not authorize them to provide rides” in autonomous vehicles, and does not allow Tesla to operate a ride-hailing service to the public."
Can’t wait to see how TSLA stocks prices will react once people realize what an amazing target Musk’s own fleet will be for vandalism and public furor:D
not to mention all the Musky Bro-Hoes getting hurt because they trusted FSD when it most definitely was not self driving.
Call for an uber, driverless tesla pulls up. Call a tow truck, don’t cancel the order. “Yeah hi, thanks for showing up. Yeah I dunno, it just pulled up here and it’s blocking my driveway.”
No, don’t so that. Without cancelling, it looks intentional.
Call uber, but put traffic cones everywhere. Cancel because it can’t make it. Call tow truck to report stuck Tesla.
These things will drive thru walls, deer and all sorts of things. I am not sure putting cones up everywhere will have any effect.
I would not trust a robo-taxi that relies entirely on cameras. It really does need lidar/radar and other sensors to work well.
I don’t care if it has LIDAR. I wouldn’t trust a tesla.
Meep meep
It helps, but humans function without LIDAR (though it can be helpful to them too). I am confident that it is technically possible to drive with just a camera, given sufficient image processing. Is our image processing in 2025 sufficient for the task? That I don’t know.
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I got you fam, I posted a link for the person you responded to.
https://youtube.com/shorts/U1MigIJXJx8
Wile E. Coyote…
I mean I don’t like Tesla either but how is a Lidar supposed to solve this issue? It’s still a solid surface and the Lidar will still pick it up.
That’s the entire point of Mark’s test, Tesla doesn’t use LIDAR anymore, just plain cameras. LIDAR wouldn’t be fooled by such a painted wall, but apparently typical cameras can indeed be fooled.
It’s similar to facial recognition unlock, if it doesn’t use some form of 3D cameras or sensors, then just a simple photo of you is enough to unlock your phone.
Oh whoops, I misunderstood what the video was supposed to show. Yea that tracks.
humans function without LIDAR
The point of a self-driving car is to be better than a human, and see things that humans don’t see (like obstacles that are obscured by fog or rain)
That’s convenient. Now I can just have them come to me to be vandalized.
The CPUC is corporate bought and paid for (e.g. NEM 3.0).
Absolute waste of space except that they’re the only speed bump to so many things. So I guess we’ve got that going for us.
Autonomous mobile fash cameras. What’s the worst thing that happened LOL.
They really want to make me afraid to leave my home.
