(Bloomberg) – Tesla Inc.’s self-driving taxis appeared to violate traffic laws during the company’s first day offering paid rides, with one customer capturing footage of a left turn gone wrong and others traveling in cars that exceeded posted speed limits.
In a video taken by Rob Maurer, an investor who used to host a Tesla podcast, the Model Y he’s riding in enters an Austin intersection in a left-turn-only lane. The Tesla hesitates to make the turn, swerves right and proceeds into an unoccupied lane meant for traffic moving in the opposite direction.
A honking horn can be heard as the Tesla re-enters the correct lane over a double-yellow line, which drivers aren’t supposed to cross.
In two other posts on X, initial riders in driverless Model Ys shared footage of Teslas speeding. A vehicle carrying Sawyer Merritt, a Tesla investor, reached 35 miles per hour shortly after passing a 30 miles per hour speed limit sign, a video he posted shows.
including engineers who specialize in self-driving safety.
Three of the seven experts tasked exclusively with writing regulations for the Cybercab and Tesla vehicles equipped with autonomous driving systems were among those laid off.
Elon:“regulations? We don’t need no stinking regulations.”
I was thinking more along the lines of “Tell Laura I Love Her”, “Teen Angel”, “Last Kiss”, or “Dead Man’s Curve” or any of the other teenage tragedy songs that were so popular in the late do-wop period.
