Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators

While other robotaxi companies like Waymo and Zoox have reported more crashes than Tesla, Elon Musk’s company is operating at a fraction of the scale. The details that were revealed this week in the newly un-redacted data may help explain why Tesla is scaling up its nascent autonomous ride-hailing network so slowly. Musk himself admitted last month that “making sure things are completely safe” is the biggest limiting factor to Tesla expanding the network, saying the company is being “very cautious.”

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