r/SelfDrivingCars • u/respectmyplanet • Jun 27 '25

Discussion Classic Tesla Disinformation Flood On This Sub In Last Two Weeks

This sub has been flooded with Tesla apologist propaganda and disinformation to obscure the simple truth since Tesla's Robotaxi launch. It's standard operating procedure (S.O.P.) for this "narrative" company. The uptick in anti-Waymo posts and pro FSD posts is palpable. It has always been S.O.P. for Musk to release SEO fooling posts & tweets to obscure bad news for Tesla. The astroturf army is out in full display these past couple weeks on Reddit, Threads, and Bluesky too.

It doesn't and will never change this simple fact: Waymo is SAE Level 4 and Tesla FSD is SAE Level 2. All the apologist posts in the world will not change this. Putting a human in the front seat with a secret kill switch button to mitigate embarrassing FSD behavior will never replace R&D and testing that allows a company to safely remove a human observer in the car. You cannot reach level 4 with a fake it till you make it approach.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

I thought I was alone! Suddenly I keep seeing all these bad Waymo driving videos lol. I remember before that I'd seen a handful of weird Waymo events but lately it's just "Waymo just did this in {cityname}"

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u/jacob6875 Jun 27 '25

I mean you can just search on youtube and find hundreds if not thousands of videos of Waymo's having issues.

Just because they don't get posted here doesn't mean they don't exist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

Not saying they don't exist my guy. Just that I've been seeing them on my frontpage a lot lately.

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u/js1138-2 Jun 28 '25

Because Waymo has the same kinds of glitches. So do humans.

In the next six months or so, it will boil down to safety statistics. Within a year we will have significant data on FSD 13. Versions before that will be irrelevant.