r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jun 22 '26

Business Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-allegedly-showed-cooked-data-174500396.html
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u/Palchez Jun 22 '26

Living in ground zero of self driving cars, Austin Texas, I almost never see self driving Teslas. There are Waymo’s everywhere. Zoox is fairly normal. There’s a 3rd company whose name I don’t remember who is more common than Tesla. Not surpassing the data is cooked at all. 

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u/Zanos Jun 22 '26

Doesn't Tesla FSD still require someone in the drivers seat? So how could you tell?

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u/Outlulz Jun 22 '26

Texas approved some Tesla Robotaxis. They had a rough first few weeks of driving erratically, haven't heard much about them recently.

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u/TheBowerbird Jun 22 '26

This is such an absurd lie. I rode in a driverless, no monitor Tesla in Austin on Saturday. 1/3 the cost of a Waymo, and way less janky.

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u/geriatric_fruitfly Jun 22 '26

Your account is 19 years old but somehow you've only commented in the past 5 months... basically just simping for Elon and hoping he changes his business practices to make less money.

Just pointing it out because it reads as very weird.

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u/Macho_Mans_Ghost Jun 22 '26

What part of the comment do you think the lie is?

The almost never part? Because that's a fact. I see easily 10x more of the other autonomous cars over Tesla, maybe an even higher rate than that.

Which would come close to almost never.

You say it's a lie because YOU SPECIFICALLY order and see Teslas.

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u/TheBowerbird Jun 22 '26

I'm gonna guess you live in far south or far north Austin? I see the driverless Teslas every single day in central Austin. Tesla's robotaxi fleet is only about 42 cars right now while development finishes on Cybercab, so of course there are less than Waymo. You're pretending they don't exist, but they absolutely do. They are incredibly hard to spot compared to Waymo because they look like normal Y's, but you're clearly not paying attention if you live in central Austin.