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Tesla Launches Fully Unsupervised Robotaxis in Miami, Skipping the Safety-Driver Phase
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Tesla Launches Fully Unsupervised Robotaxis in Miami, Skipping the Safety-Driver Phase

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Tesla began offering driverless robotaxi rides in Miami on July 3, its first market outside Texas and California. Unlike Austin, Dallas and Houston, the Miami cars carry no safety monitor from day one, running Tesla's camera-only self-driving system in a 10-14 square mile geofenced zone that includes rainy conditions federal regulators had flagged as a risk.

Our Take

Tesla didn't just remove a driver's job in Miami - it removed the human checkpoint from the most consequential AI agent yet, a two-ton car in the rain, exactly where the book says a human should still have to answer for what happens next.

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Human-in-the-Loop: Where AI Agents Must Stop

The article argues the human checkpoint belongs exactly where an action becomes irreversible and physical - which is precisely the line Tesla just crossed by putting a driverless car on public roads with no one to take the wheel.