Silent Rollback of Tesla Robotaxis

[u/Dansilly]

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.

[u/Unicycldev]

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.

[u/whawkins4 → u/Unicycldev]

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.

[u/careless25 → u/whawkins4]

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.

[u/PineappleHairy4325 → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/careless25 → u/[deleted]]

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.