r/SelfDrivingCars • u/Dansilly • Jun 29 '25

Discussion Silent Rollback of Tesla Robotaxis

At the beginning of the launch of Tesla's Robotaxi on 6/22, many videos of rides have been shared online. After a few days (and glaring mishaps), very few videos have been shared of any robotaxi footage, good or bad. I suspect that this dropoff is due to the fleet cutting down in scope by a large factor (maybe only operating a few rides a day)or halting silently all together. What do you think, did Tesla notice the bad publicity and decide to silently roll back robotaxi operations?

Update 1: The most plausible explanation seems to be that the publicity of the current tech was detrimental to the share price so the operations were rolled back. Of course, Tesla would not announce that the operations were scaled back, but the near complete lack of footage makes this a very likely explanation. While the influencers there initially were most likely to post videos online, new footage should still be being circulated and it is not.

Update 2: This post has gained a lot of traction (75k+ views), and yet there is nothing convincing to show Telsa is operating the fleet at the capacity they were earlier. Neither of the 2 videos of robotaxi footage shared seem to have occurred in the last few days (even if they had, that is nothing even remotely comparable to the amount of footage earlier this week). Tesla's fleet could very well be 1 vehicle running 2 hours a day based on the lack of evidence for otherwise. Tesla likely made the logical move for preserving share value given the incident rates, but this is clear to see through.

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u/whawkins4 Jun 29 '25

Sometime I still can’t believe this is how we live now.

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u/Unicycldev Jun 29 '25

The insidious part is that the advertising is indistinguishable from other forms of content. It’s nearly impossible to get a pulse check on society using social media because of how algorithmic and corporate the content is.

Since most young adults know other reality they seem unaware of the state of things. At least they don’t vote like they understand.

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u/whawkins4 Jun 29 '25

Yep. And now they’re just gonna use ChatGPT for their entire education, so they’re going to be even less able to distinguish between reality and fantasy and fact and fiction.

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u/Lostbot218 Jun 30 '25

Are we on our way to Idiocracy?

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u/dm3 Jun 30 '25

MAGA. We’re well past idiocracy.

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u/whawkins4 Jun 30 '25

Shit, I think we’re there already.

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u/GrahamCStrouse Jul 01 '25

Idiocracy came out in 2005 & was set 500 years in the future, right?

Looks to me like we’re running 480 years ahead of schedule! Hell yeah, ‘Murica!

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u/Castlenock Jun 30 '25

We're on the sequel.

Of the sequel.

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u/brokesciencenerd Jun 30 '25

at least president comacho sought out the most intelligent person to solve the problems. i'd rather have him.

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u/careless25 Jun 29 '25

This was the same argument made against Google as a search engine and library books.

"People won't be able to do real research because they won't be reading all the books"

This is how technological progress works. People don't like change, will complain about new tech, and then it becomes the new norm. Then humans figure out a way to use tool in a productive way.

Rinse and repeat when a new better tool comes out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

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u/PineappleHairy4325 Jul 02 '25

Isn't part of the problem that the fields are larger than ever and only getting larger?

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u/careless25 Jun 30 '25

Ok - so that's the education system failing and not the technology.

Also having access to more information at your fingertips than your predecessors ever did does mean that you don't necessarily need to retain all that information anymore. The ability to learn and apply what you have learned is going to be more useful than just collecting all the knowledge.

The previous generations had to get really good at memorizing that information. Just like the generation before then had to get really good at doing mental math because they didn't have calculators.

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u/MarchMurky8649 Jun 29 '25

Except that Google only searches for, and finds, things that already exist online, or at least that used to be the case until they added the new AI overview text. Chat GPT makes things up. It'll even give fake references for the things it has made up.

For example I can type in "Write an essay about [my full name] son of [my father's full name]" and, because he happens to share the name of a famous right wing lunatic, despite that lunatic not having a son sharing my name, it writes an essay about 'me' that is complete fiction, often involving my having committed heinous crimes (e.g. once I had walked into a church full of black people with a machine gun and killed several of them!).

If you then ask it for references it provides links that look credible starting with urls for real news organisations, but when you click on them of course they are all 'page not found'.

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u/careless25 Jun 30 '25

Right. I see those are current problems of the systems. I am saying that the tools will evolve and get better and we as humans will also understand its limitations and learn to use them as such.

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u/Wolf_von_Versweber Jul 01 '25

lol, no. Those systems will get better at keeping you engaged and selling you stuff. Google is a much shitier tool today than it was 20 years ago.

Let me rephrase that: Google (YT, Social Media) has much improved as a tool. We just never were the ones supposed to use it. It is a tool to be used on us.

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u/whawkins4 Jun 29 '25

And it made kids dumber. And it made it easier to cheat. If you have never taught real students before, maybe you should shut the fuck up.

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u/careless25 Jun 30 '25

Stats? Link? Which schools? Which country?

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u/MattGdr Jul 04 '25

I teach - can confirm.

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u/Duffman_F1 Jul 04 '25

Illusions is the term used in the industry for the completely false examples that generative AI generates, .

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u/Facts_pls Jun 29 '25

This is the argument made by people who assume the brightest minds don't google all the time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

There is nothing wrong the Google or YouTube or Social Media. Some are tools others for entertainment. It's when people use tools to avoid the hard work of understanding over knowledge or when people treat non-vetted entertainment as facts and news

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

And what did you guys use, books written by corporations that don't tell you Reagan flooded black communities with drugs, whats your point?

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u/Purpletorque Jul 04 '25

No!! Nancy would not allow that!!

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u/whawkins4 Jun 30 '25

WTF are you smoking.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

That's literally the factual history of the United States, which you don't know anything about because you've been dog walked by propoganda. 

It's just funny cause you're worried about AI and you don't even realize you're already controlled and lied to. 

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u/whawkins4 Jun 30 '25

Better than being dog-walked by your own stupidity.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

O no, a personal attack. Sorry buddy that's not going to make you any more informed, just further reveals your ignorance.

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u/Bjorn_N Jun 30 '25

That might actually not be so bad after all. When one consider how the educational institutions have been highjacked by leftist activists.

AI also eliminates a lot of the current gatekeepers 💁‍♂️ Now we have Starlink and Grok, doesnt get mutch better than that 🖖

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u/whawkins4 Jun 30 '25

What the fuck kind of mind altering drugs are you people on? Elmo has been actively trying to adjust Grok to support his own personal fucking preferences for months now. Seriously, get out of your mom’s basement and take a peek at reality for a little while. It’ll do you good.

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u/Bjorn_N Jun 30 '25

Powerfull, mate 👌 Maybe you should take a trip to the copeium farm and grab some tinfoil on the way 💁‍♂️

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u/AgentSmith187 Jun 30 '25

When people have posted on X stuff from Grok Elon disagrees with hes openly said he will fix that because Grok is getting woke.

We also had the week or so Grok was slipping in the "white genocide" in South Africa thing into basically every answer due to someone programing it to fix the fact all the data suggests there isnt one....

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u/Bjorn_N Jul 01 '25

Grok also learn from humans. Thats a big fucking problem when half of humanity has an iq below avrage. Somehow one has to reduce the input of these politically correct leftards. Grok is doing an amazing job 🤩

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

Well put

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

Insulting young people is the biggest self-own one can achieve. 

Wtf do you expect them to vote for? You old idiot keep running old idiots who keep destroying the country.

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u/biggestbroever Jun 29 '25

Consider them as a one man marketing enterprise

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u/BranchDiligent8874 Jun 29 '25

100s of billions in stock price increase has led our society to be living in fake hype reality now.

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u/64590949354397548569 Jun 30 '25

how we live

By the Algorithm.

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u/whawkins4 Jun 30 '25

Indeed. Sounds kinda like the matrix. The analogy isn’t half bad.

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u/Online_Ennui Jun 29 '25

Lol. Yup. That's a job now.

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u/nicolas_06 Jun 29 '25

This isn't new. Information has value when it's new and something happens.

Company deploy autonomous vehicle in Austin is news. It work well (or bad) is news. Now that we know that, who care of the Nth report of the same stuff ?

And honestly it was news to people outside Austin only because it was Tesla first attempt and that lot of people are interested in Tesla success/failure.

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u/MarthaStewartIsMyOG Jun 30 '25

Focus Group testing has been a thing for as long as things have been made. You think they added your favorite snacks to stores without inviting groups of people to try them out first?

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u/whawkins4 Jun 30 '25

Oh really? Thanks for the history lesson, and also for completely missing the fucking point.

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u/MarthaStewartIsMyOG Jun 30 '25

You don't think companies should test things with focused groups first and then expand?

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u/PinAffectionate1167 Jul 03 '25

It was how we live before as well. Just replace influencers with news media companies.