The Embarrassing Truth About Tesla's Robotaxis

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Tesla launched its robotaxi service on Monday in Austin, with only a few cars involved but a great deal of fanfare. The discrepancy is best explained by one Wikipedia page: "List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk." If you are Musk, a person who is addicted to consuming every possible piece of media about yourself and who purports to hate Wikipedia for alleged "far left" bias but probably just hates it for how it portrays you specifically, this page is brutal. So far, the article has graded 21 Musk promises or predictions that he issued with a time horizon.