Tesla Bots Far From True Autonomy, Edge Cases Will Take Years, Skeptic Argues
JonBryant421 · x · 2026-09-08
Pushing back on bullish takes that "Waymo and Uber are finished" and Tesla's decade-long bet is about to pay off, Jon Bryant argues the Tesla bots deployed this weekend mostly understand nothing about autonomy, and Tesla is nowhere close to true autonomy — working out edge cases in complex, varied environments will take years from this point, and Tesla is probably further away than assumed.
More from Embodied
- Humanoid walking is continuous correction — watch recovery, not locomotion, in demos — Olivier__OG · 2026-10-26
- CircuitHub unveils The Grid, a factory-scale robot making PCBs in the US twice as fast as Shenzhen — garrytan · 2026-10-26
- AI researchers guessed robots wouldn't outrun humans until 2034 — it already happened — ben_j_todd · 2026-10-26
- Shanghai AI Lab-led team releases 100-hour egocentric wearable dataset for humanoid training — ChuckDBrooks · 2026-10-26
- RealSense D585 Pro AI-Powered 3D Stereo Depth Camera Unboxed for Physical AI — chrismatthieu · 2026-10-26
- Physical world agent swarm demo shared on X — pduan · 2026-10-26