Tesla’s newly-launched ride-hailing service in San Francisco isn’t fairly prepared for the “robotaxi” designation. After launching its robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, with a “security monitor” within the passenger seat final month, a video of Tesla’s service in San Francisco exhibits a automobile arriving with a human on the wheel, as reported earlier by Enterprise Insider.
California requires corporations to acquire three permits to function a industrial robotaxi service. Thus far, the state has granted Tesla simply one of many permits, permitting it to run a ride-hailing service with people within the driver’s seat. The Alphabet-owned Waymo is presently the one firm with the permits to supply industrial driverless rides in San Francisco.
Regardless that the service in Texas and California hasn’t but achieved Musk’s promise of working with “nobody within the automotive,” Musk instructed Tesla traders final week that he plans to develop robotaxi service to Florida, Nevada, and Arizona.
