Tesla 'Robotaxi' status check: 8 months in, 19% availability

https://electrek.co/2026/02/16/tesla-robotaxi-status-check-8-months-in/

by PLenz • 5 months ago

8 2 5 months ago

If you have not learned to totally ignore CEO predictions and promises, then you just haven't been paying attention. CEOs are famously myopic while simultaneously being prone to fabulism. They confuse this fabulism for "vision".

* Anthropic CEO "In three to six months, AI will be writing 90% of the code"

* NVIDIA in 2024 "Stop learning to code"

* Bill Gates, 2004 "Spam will be solved in 2 years"

* Twitter (Jack Dorsey in 2021) "Everything will move to blockchain by the mid 2020s"

* Michael Dell on future of Apple (1997) "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders"

The thing is, what makes a CEO a good CEO is managing people well, spotting talent, being upbeat and optimistic, and remaining focused on a goal that others miss. It has absolutely nothing to do with "being grounded in reality". In fact, pessimistic and depressed people are much more realistic in their assessments of things. So never look to a CEO as a predictor of the future, especially with respect to their own company, because they will always give you a rose-colored song and dance about unicorns and world-changing tech.

givemeethekeys• 5 months ago

You don't understand. We've already moved onto Concubines in Space! /s

Tesla 'Robotaxi' status check: 8 months in, 19% availability

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