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Riders have allegedly documented several incidents of driving issues with Tesla’s new robotaxi service, which the automekar rolled out by a small fleet of self-driving vehicles in Austin, Texas earlier this week.
Videos taken by passengers this week were shown Tesla robotaxis -Those who are model Y vehicles with advanced software-unmatched braking, rapid, operating inappropriate drop-off, entering the wrong lane and driving on a curb, according to the Reuters.
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A video featured a robotaxi driving in a lane for traffic coming for six seconds. In another incident, a vehicle was seen to have a sudden braking without any clear reason, causing a shock to the passenger and his belongings to fall on the floor, the Reuters told.
On June 22, 2025, Austin, along with the South Congress Avenue in Texas, a Tesla robotaxi offers a backseat passengers on the road. (Reuters / Joel Angel Juarez / Reuters)
Austin Autonomous vehicle event dashboardWhich tracks the safety incidents related to autonomous vehicles in the city, also shows that Robotaxi service had “safety concerns” of its first report this week.
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The reported incident, which took place on the same day, Tesla rolled out his self-driving taxis in the city, said that one of the robotaxi vehicles was suddenly seen breaking as it passes police vehicles that were not in its driving path, a spokesperson of the Austin city told the Fox Business in an email.
A Tesla Robotaxi Austin, Texas, US, drives on the road with South Congress Avenue on 22 June, 2025. (Reuters / Joel Angel Juarez / Reuters)
“It is very early that there is a group of videos of uncertain and poor driving,” Philip Kopman, a Carnegie Mellon University Computer Engineering Professor and Autonomous technology The expert told Reuters. “I was not expecting many videos of problematic driving on the first day.”
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On June 22, 2025, Austin, along with the South Congress Avenue in Texas, a Tesla robotaxi offers a backseat passengers on the road. (Reuters / Joel Angel Juarez / Reuters)
On Sunday, Tesla launched a trial group in Austin, about 10 to 20 self-driving robotaxis, in which the company’s cars first paid the riders without human drivers. CEO of Tesla Elon Musk The X stated that the launch started with customers paying $ 4.20 flat fee.
Musk earlier stated that Tesla would roll robotaxi service in other cities of the US later this year, which was predicted that according to Reuters, millions of Teslas will be autonomous by the second half of 2026 by the second half of 2026.
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