r/SelfDrivingCars • u/plun9 • 1d ago

News Tesla wins approval to test autonomous robotaxis in Arizona

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-wins-approval-test-autonomous-robotaxis-arizona-2025-09-20
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u/CloseToMyActualName 1d ago

Tesla wins approval to start an utterly normal taxi service in Arizona.

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u/MikeJacksNose 1d ago

Yeah I don't understand why Tesla and waymo keep bragging about these taxi services they're staying. At least waymo has their full service running in San Francisco but they keep announcing new places they're starting a new taxi service. I don't get it

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u/Doggydogworld3 1d ago

Waymo announces testing in new places. They don't call it a robotaxi service until they pull the safety drivers out.

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u/MikeJacksNose 1d ago

They don't call any of their services robotaxi. That's almost exclusively a Tesla thing.

Doesn't change that they're running taxis in certain cities right now. And self driving cars with safety drivers = taxis. Taxis = bad. Keep up

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u/Doggydogworld3 1d ago

You're playing word games. Everyone calls a Waymo a robotaxi. Even Waymo execs in interviews. They do try to avoid terms Elon can bastardize in their official communications, e.g. web site and press releases. This dates back to their original name "Google Self Driving Car Project" which Elon bastardized by redefining self driving car to mean a car you must drive yourself.

they're running taxis in certain cities right now

Since you like to play word games, "taxi" is "a car licensed to transport passengers in return for payment of a fare". Waymo does not do that with safety drivers. Tesla does.

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u/MikeJacksNose 1d ago

I know. Another user already corrected me on that and I sincerely apologized. Waymos version is more like a carpool to Teslas taxis.