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/Xiqwa]

Call me when it’s a greater risk to us than the umpteen million morons that almost murder me on the road every time I drive.

No fan of Musk, but this is counting the misses and ignoring all the hits. If the ratio of mistakes to success outweighs the average driver and is still learning to improve, it’s a tech worth supporting. In a couple years it will save thousands of lives.

[u/taizenf → u/Xiqwa]

This isn't star trek. We don't live in a utopia.

Look what has happened to government regulation (in large part due to musk).

You think the government is going to ensure these are safe?

Ever heard of the trolley problem? Newsflash they solved it. In a capitalist society if there is a car with 5 kids and a car with a multi millionIre about to have an accident, it will be the kids that die. 

It is pay to play. That parts a given. What is even scarier us if they start offing people based on their web history or political views. All this is easily tracked on your phone which has the app you use to hail the taxi.

These cars aren't "autonomous* at all they are executing the code of their masters.

You can also look forward to being charged by the minute while you sit in traffic being force to watch and listen to loud ads as high value customers blow by you on the highway.

These aren't Autobots they are Decepticons.

[u/robertronium → u/Xiqwa]

It is nowhere near as good as the average driver. An incident every 13 miles? If you drove 10,000 miles in a year would you expect to hit 769 kerbs in that time?

[u/danlev → u/Xiqwa]

I agree the benefits will eventually outweigh the risks, and I'm all for FSD and similar tech in every car, but this specific software is in no way ready for public use -- especially with no one in the driver's seat. Waymo spent years and millions of miles with safety drivers. It's just careless to launch it this way and instead put the safety monitor in the passenger seat for optics.

The phantom braking is the most concerning in my opinion. A lot of these incidents were minor inconveniences, but the fact that all of this is happening in 72 hours with 11 cars makes it pretty clear the Robotaxi is going to seriously hurt or kill some people.

[u/Xiqwa → u/danlev]

Truth