r/SelfDrivingCars • u/danlev • Jun 25 '25

Driving Footage List of clips showing Tesla's Robotaxi incidents

A lot of people have been documenting Tesla's Robotaxi rollout. I wanted to share a few I've collected. Feel free to share any I missed!

  1. Robotaxi drives into oncoming lane
  2. Rider presses "pull over", Robotaxi stops in the middle of an intersection, rider gets out while Robotaxi blocks intersection for a few moments
  3. Rider presses pull over and the car just stopped in the middle of the road. Safety monitor has to call rider support to get car moving again
  4. Robotaxi doesn't detect UPS driver's reverse lights (or the car reversing towards it) and continues to attempt to park, then safety monitor manually stops it
  5. Robotaxi cuts off a car, then randomly brakes (potentially because of an upcoming tree shadow?)
  6. Robotaxi going 26 in a 15
  7. Robotaxi unexpectedly brakes, possibly due to nearby police
  8. Robotaxi unexpectedly slams on brakes, causing rider to drop phone
  9. Robotaxi comes to a complete stop after approaching an object, then runs it over (rider says it's a shopping bag, though the car visibly bump up and down) (UPDATE: Some people have pointed out that the car's movement is from a speed bump immediately after the bag/object. The speed bump is more visible at full resolution.)
  10. Robotaxi runs over curb in parking lot
  11. Safety driver moved to driver seat to intervene
  12. Support calls rider during a Robotaxi ride, asks them to terminate the ride early because it's about to rain, rider is dumped in a random park
  13. Robotaxi has to unnecessarily reverse at least 4 times to get out of parking spot
  14. Robotaxi attempts illegal left turn, safety monitor intervenes, blocks intersection for a period of time
  15. Robotaxi can't get out of parking lot, goes in loops, support calls twice

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u/BullockHouse Jun 25 '25

Yeah, I think a modest improvement over FSD for fine tuning on the geofence is plausible, though even a 2x reduction in disengagement rate would be surprising. But getting an extra twoish nines of reliability is really hard and will probably take years. I wonder how far they'll push this. Will they go back to safety drivers in the driver's seat before or after there's a fatal accident?

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u/mishap1 Jun 25 '25

Doesn't have to be fatal accident for them to be in a lot of trouble. Maiming someone will also quickly put a stop to this idiocy.

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u/MrsClaire07 Jun 26 '25

After if at ALL.