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"Tesla secured a series of approvals from California required for a promised robotaxi service.

The California Public Utilities Commission said it approved Tesla's application for a transportation charter-party carrier permit, a license typically associated with chauffeur-operated services, allowing the company to own and control a fleet of vehicles and transport employees on pre-arranged trips.

The permit is a prerequisite for applying to operate an autonomous ride-hailing service in California, but a CPUC spokesperson said the current permit "does not authorize them to provide rides" in autonomous vehicles, and does not allow Tesla to operate a ride-hailing service to the public."

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Go watch Mark Robers video driving through a wall and tell me how you feel

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 8 points 23 hours ago

And now we have the "Wile E. Coyote carrier permit"...

[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Can't wait to see how TSLA stocks prices will react once people realize what an amazing target Musk's own fleet will be for vandalism and public furor:D

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

not to mention all the Musky Bro-Hoes getting hurt because they trusted FSD when it most definitely was not self driving.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Call for an uber, driverless tesla pulls up. Call a tow truck, don't cancel the order. "Yeah hi, thanks for showing up. Yeah I dunno, it just pulled up here and it's blocking my driveway."

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, don’t so that. Without cancelling, it looks intentional.

Call uber, but put traffic cones everywhere. Cancel because it can’t make it. Call tow truck to report stuck Tesla.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These things will drive thru walls, deer and all sorts of things. I am not sure putting cones up everywhere will have any effect.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 5 points 22 hours ago

Not just deer. Cyclists too.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 day ago

That's convenient. Now I can just have them come to me to be vandalized.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Tesla fleet vs cones

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The CPUC is corporate bought and paid for (e.g. NEM 3.0).

Absolute waste of space except that they're the only speed bump to so many things. So I guess we've got that going for us.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Autonomous mobile fash cameras. What's the worst thing that happened LOL.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Cash sales of ski masks are going to spike.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

They really want to make me afraid to leave my home.

[–] dan@upvote.au 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I would not trust a robo-taxi that relies entirely on cameras. It really does need lidar/radar and other sensors to work well.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I don't care if it has LIDAR. I wouldn't trust a tesla.

[–] Ele7en7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find it hilarious that my vacuum has lidar and cameras to avoid obstacles, but Tesla can't be bothered

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Tesla used to have it, but they removed it since Elon Musk only wanted them to use cameras. They even went as far as to send a software update to older cars to disable the extra sensors and only use the cameras.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

It's so Elon can save money

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago