Tesla claims to have delivered on Elon Musk’s promise to “open up” Robotaxi in September, albeit with some caveats.
Anybody with an iPhone can now obtain the Tesla Robotaxi app and be a part of a waitlist.
Final month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that the automaker would open up its Robotaxi service to the general public in September.
As we beforehand reported, this doesn’t imply a lot as a result of Tesla’s service continues to be restricted on account of its small fleet, which requires in-car supervisors always.
Nonetheless, Tesla determined to “open up” the Robotaxi, however principally the app:
Now, all iPhone customers within the US can obtain the app, however all it allows you to do is be a part of a waitlist.
Presumably, in case you are situated in Austin or the Bay Space, you have got a better probability of being permitted sooner, as these are the one areas the place the service at the moment operates, with low double-digit fleets of automobiles working underneath the supervision of managers.
Android customers are anticipated to be supported at a later date.
Electrek’s Take
At this level, it seems to be like Tesla Robotaxi is only a larger-scale FSD demonstration experience. The one people who find themselves impressed by this are those that have by no means skilled Tesla FSD.
We already know that FSD can carry out all of the duties associated to driving; the one drawback is that it might’t carry out them reliably sufficient over tens of hundreds of miles to attain stage 4 autonomy.
Therefore, the motive force is required to oversee always in shopper automobiles, and a Tesla worker is supervising in each Robotaxi.
The information is the one factor that issues proper now with Robotaxi. Every thing else is simply fluff.
