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I mean, there are traffic violations, and then there are traffic violations - if there’s a dead body at the end, it was the second type.

Neither is desirable, but it would actually be a big win to create a tech system that drives a car that produces fewer fatalities per mile than the average human, regardless of whether or not it generates speeding tickets or other inconveniences.

That’s my opinion, anyway. I won’t downvote you, I only downvote comments unhelpful to the overall conversation, you’re not being unhelpful, I just disagree with you.

I was actually surprised that Waymo had only thousands of units in operation.

That being said, 3,000 commercially operating for years with zero fatalities, that’s not nothing. It’s not a ton, it doesn’t change the world (much), but it isn’t zero. Tesla’s result so far rounds down to zero.

Do they know how to scale up an autonomous taxi service? I mean, maybe? There’s no sign of that anywhere in the Tesla data, though.

The original target was Robotaxis to cover “half the US population by the end of 2025,” so we’re nowhere close to on-target, and those goals weren’t given with any asterix on the earnings call when they were declared. I don’t see any reason to move the goalpost, it’s just a miss taken to a funny conclusion.

https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/tesla-earnings-stock-price-elon-musk/card/musk-s-early-conference-call-comments-focus-on-autonomous-driving-PRJqKKBVRfnHS7TMLDis