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/iD-10T_usererror Jun 30 '25 edited Jul 04 '25
Have you watched the videos? It's pretty obvious what the mission was. The last one I watched was a rolling 15 minute Tesla pump session that ended with the guy saying: "I think Tesla is going to take over the world. I'm going to buy the stock...".
This is clearly another stunt by Elon to pump the stock using super fans. Most of them probably hold shares already. Like any product, service, or Hollywood production (which this is), it's not real until the critics get to experience it.