TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla's Ride-Hailing Gambit

TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla's ride-hailing gambit

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Is Tesla ‘ride-hailing’ coming for Waymo

Uber, Lyft and regular taxi drivers have a new competitor in San Francisco and the Bay Area in the form of Tesla. Whether Tesla is actually rivaling Waymo in the robotaxi space is an open question.

These Behind-the-Scenes Emails From Tesla Meekly Begging the State of California to Allow Its Horrible Robotaxis Are Unintentionally Hilarious

Email exchanges between Tesla and California regulators obtained by Politico reveal a comical discrepancy between what Elon Musk is saying his Robotaxi services can do publicly, and what the automaker is actually telling authorities behind closed doors.  This week, Tesla launched a ride-hailing service in San Francisco, in what is being framed as an expansion of its Robotaxi efforts that started as an invite-only program in Austin, Texas last mo…