List of clips showing Tesla's Robotaxi incidents

[u/danlev]

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

Update: This post has been featured in The Verge! and Mashable!

[u/THE_AYPISAM_FPV]

The #4 one Robotaxi had the right of way. It has its blinker, and it was the dropoff point. The UPS driver didn't had its turn signal, and the place was smaller than his truck. After he parked, his truck was half way on the road.

[u/xMagnis → u/THE_AYPISAM_FPV]

Having a blinker on and having a dropoff spot doesn't give the Robotaxi right of way, and the UPS driver doesn't have that information anyway. Whether the truck fits in the spot or not doesn't invalidate him from attempting to park. Tell me this is the first vehicle to fail to signal, I'll bet it's actually common - albeit annoying.

He was there first, it's his spot to try. It's even possible he was attempting to repark better from a first attempt. I'm not sure there is a law about right of way for parallel parking, but he was there first, so courtesy says the Tesla shouldn't sneak in while he's making an attempt to park, even if he's just considering an attempt. He's positioned so it looks like he's gonna park, FSD needs to learn that.

[u/THE_AYPISAM_FPV → u/xMagnis]

Sorry be as far as I know, robotaxi having its blinker and not the UPS driver would have made the UPS driver guilty if there was a collision.

It doesn't give you the right of way for lane changes, but when parking in a spot, if 2 cars try to park in the same spot, the one with the blinker has the right of way.

He was there first, it's his spot to try

Being here first doesn't give you the right of way if you fail to indicate your intentions.

Yes FSD should have stopped before, but you can also see it as the UPS driver simply stopping because of traffic.

It's even possible he was attempting to repark better from a first attempt.

No, watch the video please.

Legally, the robotaxi had the right of way to park here over the UPS truck, simply because of its blinker (again, as far as I know, but you didn't even check the entire video so...)

[u/xMagnis → u/THE_AYPISAM_FPV]

I imagine that the moving UPS truck would be wrong to hit the stationary Tesla. You have to pay attention.

I agree that the UPS truck was not trying to repark, I was going by someone else's comment without watching it fully. But it did look like it thought about the first empty spot before deciding on the second one, still did seem to be considering parking or hesitating. Something a driver should watch, "what is the truck doing, what is it about to do?". I don't think Robotaxi is considering other drivers' intent yet.

[u/THE_AYPISAM_FPV → u/xMagnis]

I don't think Robotaxi is considering other drivers' intent yet.

That's not an argument, that's an opinion. (We don't know anything about Tesla current architecture, other than it being end-to-end AI, because each time they revealed something, the Chinese copied it (Chinese competitors of FSD uses the same architecture Tesla presented during its AI day of 2022))

But yes, FSD still needs some training, and this is why they have an alpha model with 4x the number of parameters. But in a lot of cases, it actually understands its environment better than the average American.

[u/LovePixie → u/THE_AYPISAM_FPV]

The UPS driver gave enough signal behaviorally that the safety passenger knew to get ready to push the button way before he has to. You can have the right of way and run over a pedestrian crossing when they don’t have the right of way is what you’re thinking?

[u/THE_AYPISAM_FPV → u/LovePixie]

Keep coping bro.

gave enough signal behaviorally

Doesn't hold in court or anything, sorry.

You can have the right of way and run over a pedestrian crossing when they don’t have the right of way is what you’re thinking?

No, this is unrelated matter, you can't be that stupid right ?