News Republisher

Scouring the news for interesting articles on robotaxis.

Joined: 12/29/2023
Articles: 211

News, Safety, Waymo

arsTechnica – Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into traffic

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05/14/24
Rev 06/3/24

arsTechnica provides further information on the NHTSA investigation into "unexpected behavior" by Waymo's robotaxis. 22 reports of the cars malfunctioning!

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Electrek – Only 2% of Tesla Full Self-Driving trial users end up buying it, credit card data show

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05/14/24
Rev 06/4/24

Electrek reports that very few trial users are purchasing Full Self Driving after their free trial use. Elon Musk has been propping up Tesla share prices by claiming the real money will be made via autonomous vehicle software and a robotaxi fleet. But it turns out customers are not really interested in paying for Tesla's weak technology.

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Markets Insider – Tesla will drop 70% after robotaxi and AI ambitions stop shielding a failing business, ‘Big Short’ investor says

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05/13/24
Rev 06/6/24

Markets Insider reports that some investors are seeing through the false claims that Elon Musk has been putting out about their robotaxi and AI initiatives. More will follow.

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Reuters – Exclusive: In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud

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05/8/24
Rev 06/6/24

Reuters reports that Tesla's statements on their autonomous vehicles is now being investigated as possible securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its vehicles' self-driving capabilities. This will not end well.

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TechCrunch – Wayve raises $1B to take its Tesla-like technology for self-driving to many carmakers

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05/6/24
Rev 06/15/24

TechCrunch reports that SoftBank was the lead in Wayve's recent $1B funding round for developing an autonomous vehicle system. Impressive that SoftBank still has money to burn.

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Fortune – Elon Musk reportedly sacked Tesla’s entire Supercharger team, including his top female manager

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04/30/24

The Fortune article is important because it reports that he wasn't just dismissing Rebecca Tinucci, who was the executive in charge of Supercharger operations and also Tesla's highest ranking woman executive at Tesla. The entire Supercharger team of 500 employees is getting the boot! And the Supercharger operation is highly successful and critical to Tesla sales. This is yet another highly counterproductive move by Musk.