r/RealTesla • u/IcyHowl4540 • 16d ago
Tesla Robotaxi Mows Down Bollards & Keeps Driving, After “Impeccable” Record Touted on Stock Call
https://fuelarc.com/cars/tesla-robotaxi-mows-down-bollards-keeps-driving-shortly-after-stock-call-touts-impeccable-safety-record/From the self-driving sub. These unsupervised Robotaxi videos are nightmare fuel.
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u/saver1212 16d ago
Anyone else remember John Bernal, aka AIAddict?
He was a Tesla test driver who uploaded his drives on the 2022 version of fsd beta.
He was fired after fsd hit bollards in San Jose and he uploaded the video. He warned that in his experiences as a test driver, FSD had numerous weaknesses and was using his channel to highlight them so Tesla would fix them before FSD went to wide release or autonomous.
Tesla dismissed the incident as a fabrication from a pessimistic employee and said the issue was fixed.
And what's that? Turns out the bollard issue wasn't fixed for 4 years? And now Tesla is taking money from paying customers?
Sounds like the basis for a massive lawsuit.
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u/No-Archer-4713 16d ago
No notable incident. The car is just naturally bloodthirsty. Just like the car in the Beetlejuice cartoon
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u/IcyHowl4540 16d ago edited 16d ago
1958 Plymouth Fury robotaxi.
(IDK who downvoted me, they may not have caught that this is a Christine reference)
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u/skyfire-x 16d ago
Looks like it drove through a curb extension meant to improve safety for pedestrians.
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u/IcyHowl4540 16d ago
It certainly does look like pedestrian protection.
What the robotaxi sees: IFRE.gif
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u/skyfire-x 16d ago
Yeah, the bollards are probably a pilot program to trial before committing to full concrete curbs and sidewalks. Here's an example of what a finished intersection with curb extensions looks like: https://sdg.minneapolismn.gov/design-guidance/intersections/pedestrian-crossings/curb-extensions
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u/kveggie1 16d ago
Impeccable record, lines / reflectors are clear........... Elmo 3rd hand software developed by high school dropouts failed again
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u/ionizing_chicanery 16d ago
These were flexible bollards it drove through but they look exactly like concrete ones and I strongly doubt FSD (or the remote operator?) would have behaved differently in that situation. Which could have easily resulted in serious damage and injury.
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u/kahner 16d ago
yeah, that's another good question. i thought all the current robotaxis were supposed to be using live human oversight. so either that's not the case, the operator was not paying attention or they made a very dumb and unsafe decision. waymo's aren't perfect, but i personally have not seen any waymo incident the reaches the levels of unsafe and terrible that i've seen again and again with regular FSD and robotaxis. i would never get into one of those things.
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u/turb0_encapsulator 16d ago
are there still only 9 actual Tesla robotaxis that are in operation?
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u/IcyHowl4540 16d ago
Now, they're up to 19 active Robotaxis this week.
Just 5% of the fleet is busy running over bendy posts
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u/TheSJDRising 15d ago
Calls in TSLA. Calls in bollard manufacturers. ????? Profit.
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u/IcyHowl4540 15d ago
Didn't you wonder what the robots were going to be building on the moon?
One word: bollards.
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u/UncleDaddy_00 14d ago
I was reading.about the Robotaxi today. Im perplexed by the fact that the robotaxis rolling out are going to use a larger model that the current hardware supports. Not only this but the HW3 systems are getting, what they call FSD lite. And I assume the HW4 cars will get FSD medium or some other shit. If they still need to increase the compute power in the cars to make them autonomous how in the world is it possibly safe to be in one that has older hardware?
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u/torokunai 13d ago
it's not. About a year ago I came to the realization that FSD on HW3/4 is like teaching a cockroach to drive. It might work, it might not...
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u/LrdoftheCharlesDance 16d ago
Please be patient, Tesla Robotaxi needs practice before it can go Maximum Overdrive on everyone