Cybrtsla

Tesla owner and enthusiast. 2018 model 3 LR. Avid user of FSD. I have been following the company since 2012

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@GreenTexanEV @DavidMoss @MarcoRPi1 @scotsrule08 My guess is probably the prominent flooding that’s been going on here? That was the reason why Waymo stopped their service as well, and they’ve been paused for close to 3 months now

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Well San Antonio was never in the list of their 2026 1st half cities on the earnings deck. The job postings opened up a couple months ago, so maybe they made plans to enter recently and are laying the ground work.

Waymo is still paused due to all the flooding, not sure if that has anything to do with it

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@GreenTexanEV @DavidMoss @MarcoRPi1 @scotsrule08 Yeah good point. I’m hoping that’s the case. Theoretically, Tesla has the permit to operate anywhere in Texas, so getting set up in San Antonio is entirely up to them at this point

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@GreenTexanEV @DavidMoss @MarcoRPi1 @scotsrule08 Interesting, I thought the Robotaxi operator roles they’re hiring for would work at one of the San Antonio service centers. But if the SC employees are not even aware of that, it’s interesting that they’re hiring for such a role

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@elonmusk @gailalfaratx @SpaceX @elonmusk I hope there is a documentary behind the scenes on Robotaxi/cybercab. The revolution of transportation must be documented

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@FudKim Interesting I never knew there were robotaxis in LA

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@Deandawiz At that point boring tunnels can be widespread as well. Humans don’t prefer driving in tunnels, but AI doesn’t care

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@butala_aryan @koby_pierce How did you get this geofence specifically? Just curious

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@WorldlyReviewer Yeah they have the flood warnings coming out here in San Antonio, maybe that’s why?

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The funniest part is watching a throwaway estimate evolve into fan fiction. Lars basically said, "We've got some cool scaling news coming," and within days people had reverse-engineered the date and convinced themselves Giga Texas was about to launch Robotaxi nationwide on 7/7. I knew better than to take an off-the-cuff comment as gospel.

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@butala_aryan @robotaxi @Starlink @wholemars @SawyerMerritt @niccruzpatane @JCChristopher @JoeTegtmeyer @tesla2moon @OverlyTrev @DavidMoss @scotsrule08 @SDembraski Yeah but they all have steering wheels right? I think when we see a substantial fleet of more than 10 cybercabs without steering wheels, we’d be pretty close to the first public rides

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@OverlyTrev I think unsupervised for personal vehicles will be allowed eventually. Maybe once Robotaxi is nationwide and scaled into the thousands with the Tesla Robotaxi fleet. It might be more restricted to better weather conditions since personal cars don’t have camera cleaning hardware.

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@crunchvictims @greggertruck Yeah they all have blue balls now

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@elonmusk @SpaceXAI When will get something more powerful and token efficient than fable 5? It seems like anthropic is struggling to keep the lights on with fable 5

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@CuriousPejjy There’s no such thing as an announcement about an announcement. Tesla has always either directly communicated big news via X posts, announce an event date, or reveal news over earnings calls. I knew this “announcement” was just nothing burger overhyped by some folks

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@Jaime_Fe_Ro @MightyTesla They should’ve posted a video of production with a steering wheel, because that’s the majority of cybercabs in production today

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@daltonbrewer I knew there was no announcement. People just hype things up for nothing. There’s no need to make an announcement about an announcement. Either they tell us something directly or they schedule an event if it’s something major.

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Yeah it seems like the trend is the two approaches are somewhat converging. Waymo is becoming less rigid and relying less on the hd maps and more on vision. Tesla is leaning more on mapping and isn’t as universal as people initially thought. Hence why they are also constraining to geofences now.

Time will tell how this evolves in the future. I think Tesla still does have an advantage of being able to get into newer areas quicker as they don’t have to do the initial HD mapping.

It also helps that our vehicles are essentially operating everywhere around the world, which is something Waymo cannot match.

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I was under the impression that Waymo needed extensive HD mapping for of all the areas that it operates in, and as soon as construction or anything happens that deviates from the hd map, the system will get confused.

On the contrary, since Tesla does not use HD maps, they can go into larger service areas on day one and not have to worry about continuous mapping.

It’s starting to look like neither is necessarily true and the reality lies somewhere in the middle for both technologies.