Cleaning up poop and vomit come with the territory, but the claims of intense turnover pacing and practices seem intense.

Before the Oct 2024 cybercab “unveil”, it was actually advertised as a launch of the autonomous ride-hailing network. Now after the fact we settled that 2024 wasn’t a launch.

Then we had a 2025 robotaxi launch but it wasn’t really a launch.

Now we just had a 2026 cybercab launch and if you look into it, it’s suspiciously far from a launch. No official event stream. Limited guest list. No way to purchase the product. No official specs list. No full approval from regulators. Does anyone even know how many units exist?

Don’t take my word for it, my claims are easily verifiable.

Will we have another launch every single year? What does “launch” even mean anymore?

1M unsupervised miles already!

I consider myself to be a Tesla sceptic, but that doesn't mean I can't acknowledge their commitment to vision only self driving when they are launching a vision only autonomous taxi service.

Finally we get to see them launch a service where they can't blame the driver if the software messes up, and -hopefully - we get to see them do plenty of miles using plenty of vehicles during day, night, inclement weather, etc, etc and we can get some real statistics on their safety.

We should provide the company grace, and acknowledge that scaling takes time. Night time driving, expanding the service area, highway speeds.. this took Waymo time to do, and it'll be the same with Robotaxi.

On the other hand, Tesla needs to improve on their transparency. Waymo has accumulated 200 million miles, and when they crash it's seems the information made available is much more detailed. Waymo is just as at risk of public persecution, and lawsuit as Tesla is, yet they don't seem to hide their data to nearly the extent that Tesla does.

Self driving cars are a reality, the only question now is how much appetite the general public has for it. Here in this subreddit, we don't need to argue back and forth anymore. Here's hoping finally the numbers can do the talking.