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Tesla Launches Fully Unsupervised Robotaxis in Miami, Skipping the Safety-Driver Phase
Ep. 112 03:34

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

About This Episode

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.