The Industry Is Laughing At Tesla
And rightfully so.
It’s fair to say that Tesla’s recent robotaxi unveiling was divisive at best. It had the glitz and spectacle expected of Elon these days but with not even a drop of substance. Even the AI robot bar tenders turned out to be fake animatronic puppets. It was incredibly entertaining to watch news outlets and the media at wide report on how crap the event was without enraging Musk’s cult of radicalised fanboys or risking a defamation lawsuit from the main homunculus himself, Musk. That being said, leaders in the self-driving industry are openly laughing in Tesla’s face, and for very good reason.
Arguably, Waymo is the current leader in the robotaxi race. It was the first to operate a robotaxi service without safety drivers and has now autonomously driven over 20 million miles on public roads. They are in a different league to Tesla. So, when they recently released a revised timeline of their expected progress, it wasn’t all that surprising to see they ranked Tesla at the bottom of their competition. They are openly stating that they don’t take Tesla seriously.
In fact, a former Wymo CEO has gone on record saying that Tesla isn’t serious about making a safe and accessible robotaxi service. Why? Well, like many critics (myself included), they point to Tesla’s lack of redundancy and limited sensor array. Since…
