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.
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