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Tesla robotaxi in Austin: nobody in the seat, bollards down

An independent tracker logged 170 unsupervised rides in two weeks as Tesla expanded driverless service and a passenger filmed one car hitting plastic bollards.

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Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170 rides logged by an independent monitoring project ran with no human safety monitor on board, across 54 different cars. Two days earlier, a passenger filmed one of those cars driving straight through a line of […] This story continues at The Next Web

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An autonomous car approaches an obstacle, stops and then decides on an unexpected path. What looks like a small mistake raises fundamental questions for the registration of driverless taxis. read more on t3n.de

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The Verge broke the news in United States on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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