They’ve said they’ve removed drivers from inside the taxis, then put them in cars trailing the taxis.
Now they said there’s no chase car anymore, and there isn’t, because they put the drivers back in the taxi again.
Both statements were technically correct, but purposefully misleading to bump the stock by a few billion right before earnings call.
And at no point during all this did Tesla taxis drive autonomously.
I think we gotta give them more than 24h after he says something is now happening to see if it is happening or not?
It’s going to come out soon enough either way.
edit: The call was explicit, no chase cars, no driver in the passenger seat, fully autonomous. And it’s not every car, but a small amount, which really could mean just 1.
So far it seems to be zero, or one of the many Youtubers who’ve been hailing Tesla taxis all day long in order to be the first would have uploaded by now.
You know what, I saw someone transcribe the quote, and I don’t think they were claiming there are passengers in the cars with no chase vehicles
“We were able to do our first rides with no safety monitor in the car in Austin — these are paid rides, so these were just randomly paid rides with no safety monitor, and [umm] maybe as of maybe yesterday or so we actually don’t even have a chase car or anything like that so these are just cars with no people in them and no one’s following the car in Austin.”
these are just cars with no people in them and no one’s following the car in Austin.
So ya we might not get any videos or proof of this statement which makes it useless.
They’ve said they’ve removed drivers from inside the taxis, then put them in cars trailing the taxis.
Now they said there’s no chase car anymore, and there isn’t, because they put the drivers back in the taxi again.
Both statements were technically correct, but purposefully misleading to bump the stock by a few billion right before earnings call.
And at no point during all this did Tesla taxis drive autonomously.
I think we gotta give them more than 24h after he says something is now happening to see if it is happening or not?
It’s going to come out soon enough either way.
edit: The call was explicit, no chase cars, no driver in the passenger seat, fully autonomous. And it’s not every car, but a small amount, which really could mean just 1.
So far it seems to be zero, or one of the many Youtubers who’ve been hailing Tesla taxis all day long in order to be the first would have uploaded by now.
Ya, I would expect a video any day now to confirm this one way or the other. This isn’t a lets wait a month and find out situation.
You know what, I saw someone transcribe the quote, and I don’t think they were claiming there are passengers in the cars with no chase vehicles
So ya we might not get any videos or proof of this statement which makes it useless.
It also fits the pattern of telling technically the truth, while still glossing over the fact that they can’t offer an autonomous taxi service.
Agreed