Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
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Green Hills Software CEO and Founder of The Dawn Project. I am running a campaign to make computers safe for humanity and ban Tesla Full Self-Driving.
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Joined May 2021
In May, @ElonMusk told @CNBC that Tesla's Austin "Robotaxis" would be fully autonomous. This turned out to be a total lie. 6 months later, Tesla's Robotaxi still has a human supervisor behind the wheel! In July, Waymo announced it was testing in Dallas with safety drivers. 4
Milestone unlocked.✨We’re now fully autonomous in Dallas—meaning no human driver at the wheel. Get updates at https://t.co/FpAUnlDkCm.
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Musk says it’s totally “cool” to not pay attention to traffic or your surroundings while supervising FSD. Fact is not only does $TSLA leave the poster liable in an accident, he is endangering others around him. Apparently these are all acceptable risks in the name of progress.
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Maybe this is what Elon meant when he said Robotaxis would serve 50% of America by year's end?
Waymo is now operating unsupervised robotaxis in Dallas! San Antonio and Houston are coming this month as well for a total of 4 Texas cities by the end of the year!
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It's been fraud every quarter since like 2019. 👍
So in 30 days when Tesla doesn’t have Robotaxi in 50% of the US it seems it will be clear to me what a fraud the comment was on the Q2 earnings. This isn’t going to end well.
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FSD has driven me on this turn hundreds of times over the past 4+ years and NEVER turned into the shoulder like it did today (14.2) Obviously I disengaged to correct and leave a very annoyed voice note 😄 @aelluswamy
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Tesla's entire story is any moment now they're going to totally solve self-driving without lidar, flip a switch on their existing car designs, and swiftly take this entire market from the competition. But it really looks like the train is leaving the station without them.
Waymo has quickly captured more than 10% of the SF ride-sharing market
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Pretty disappointed in FSD 14.2 this morning. I was forced, again, to critically disengage. Don’t let influencers or Tesla fanboys tell you “Tesla solved autonomous driving”🙄😑 This is my 4th critical disengagement in 2 days of having 14.2 Dont get me started on the erratic
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Watch @Tesla Full Self-Driving v14.2 try to run a red light. Self-driving software that runs red lights should be banned from public roads immediately.
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Liar, Elon said it would be ~500 by years end!
@SawyerMerritt @JoeTegtmeyer @robotaxi @Tesla The Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Austin should roughly double next month
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In 2019, @ElonMusk promised @Tesla customers that the cars it was currently building were: "designed and tested and validated for a million miles of operation" and would only require "minimal maintenance". Six years later, 17.3% of Model Ys inspected by TÜV SÜD in Germany had
businessinsider.com
Hertz just learned the hard way that EVs can cost a lot more to service and repair. Here's how the math breaks down, according to one estimate.
The report comes from TÜV SÜD, a German auditing, inspection, and certification firm, and is based on data collected from about 9.5 million vehicle inspections.
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In May, @ElonMusk said that Tesla would have 1,000 autonomous Robotaxis in Austin within a few months. 5 months later, Tesla has an estimated 29 supervised "Robotaxis" in Austin. @Waymo has 2,500 fully autonomous robotaxis doing over 250,000 paid rides a week. Elon's
@SawyerMerritt @JoeTegtmeyer @robotaxi @Tesla The Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Austin should roughly double next month
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