This Tesla Robotaxi demo video is a mess. Watch as the car makes a left turn from the wrong lane. The safety operator steps in, and the car comes to a stop… right in the middle of the intersection. Eventually, it completes the illegal left turn on red, which raises the question, what exactly is […] The post Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection & Runs a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” appeared first on FuelArc News.| FuelArc News
TL;DR: Tesla self-driving tech is becoming less safe per mile, according to Tesla’s own data. Q1 2025 was 2.5% worse than Q1 2024. Q2 2025 was 2.8% worse than Q2 2024. There’s some rough news released alongside Tesla’s Q2 2025 financial results, maybe even worse than the plummeting profitability and the total lack of guidance […] The post Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” appeared first on FuelArc News.| FuelArc News
The Tesla Robotaxi isn’t able to drive during rain, so our intrepid editors had wondered what happens if a rainstorm strikes while you’re riding in Tesla’s fair-weather autonomous taxi. Well, the Tesla Robotaxi cancels your fare and drops you off in the rain, that’s what happens. Seriously! Can’t make this stuff up. Watch a Tesla […]| FuelArc News
That’s it, y’all. The article title is the whole article. Tesla celebrated their first autonomous vehicle delivery after a new Model Y drove itself about 30 minutes from the Gigafactory in Austin TX to the customer’s home. It didn’t exactly stick the landing, as it parked directly in a clearly marked fire lane. Please Don’t […]| FuelArc News
Update: We broke this news over the weekend from a lucky catch on Reddit, but the Washington Post and TechCrunch are expanding on it, citing anonymous sources. They report that 10% of the NHTSA employees have been cut, which would be about 80 staffers, with especially heavy cuts for the employees in the new office […]| FuelArc News
The NHTSA’s Standing General Order: Tracking Self-Driving Crashes Since 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has required the manufacturers of self-driving systems to report crashes involving their technologies. This policy is part of the Standing General Order on Crash Reporting, designed to track real-world safety data and hold companies accountable for their self-driving […]| FuelArc News
It's time for another post in the Tesla FSD series, which is a part of a general self driving car debacle discussed in this blog since 2016 [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. In summary, the thesis of this blog is that AI hasn't reached the necessary understanding of physical reality to become truly autonomous and hence the contemporary AI contraptions cannot be trusted with important decisions such as those risking human life in cars. In various posts I go into detail of why I think that is the case [1,2,3,4,...| Piekniewski's blog
The pandemic has largely overwhelmed the news cycle over the past year and hence influencing and largely deflating the AI hype train. There were a few developments though which I'd consider significant. Some of them very well predicted by articles in this blog, and some surprising. Let's jump right in. Million Robotaxis in wonderland Since it is 2021 after all, the most immediate AI flop is related to Tesla robotaxis or rather lack thereof. Elon Musk promised that Tesla would achieve L5 aut...| Piekniewski's blog
I've started contemplating this post in mid February 2020 while driving back from Phoenix to San Diego, a few miles after passing Yuma, while staring into the sunset over San Diego mountains on the horizon hundred miles ahead. Since then the world had changed. And by the time you'll read this post a week from now (early April 2020) world will have changed again. And by the summer of 2020 it will have changed several times over. I won't go here too much into the COVID-19 situation, since I'm n...| Piekniewski's blog
California DMV disengagements reports are out for 2019, and it is time to plot some data. As usual, these number are not really measuring reliably the safety of AV's and there are plenty ways to| Piekniewski's blog
Elon has said that :| NextBigFuture.com