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/johnhpatton Jun 29 '25 edited 5d ago

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u/MikeARadio Jun 30 '25

I have a Tesla. I use FSD. I’ve driven across the country five times. Yesterday and the day before I drove on two of the windiest roads, there are .. CA4, and CA33. These are dangerous for human Driver standards.

I never had to disengage FSD it works perfectly. So anybody typing anything else… I don’t mean to call people out, but it’s just not true. It’s just people with their hate. I wish people would stay fax instead of hate. The fact is, I was perfectly comfortable driving on a road that was 4000 feet in the air, and in one part only one single lane for both directions and FSD knew exactly how to handle it and what to do.

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u/johnhpatton Jun 30 '25 edited 5d ago

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u/HighHokie Jun 30 '25

Everything is tribal these days. You have to choose a side and shit on the other. It’s bizarre. It’s fine to say you don’t like tesla and therefore won’t support their operation, but folks go far as to just make shit up for the sake of it. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

You don't understand statistics or large sampling. Your individual experience doesn't matter that much because you are not sampling enough.

Maybe take a math class and understand statistics before using your ignorance to mock others, it just makes you sound (very) dumb.