California's SB 1246 makes robotaxi firms send technicians to stuck cars, with fines up to $10,000 a vehicle when one blocks responders over 30 minutes. For operators, clearing a stuck car now takes paid field staff in every California city they serve.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 25%
- Operator
- Operator 55%
- Investor
- Investor 20%
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence70
Tesla asks firefighters to call two support numbers before a Cybercab can be moved
Tesla's new first responder guidance makes a company employee on a support line part of the emergency scene. A former fire chief says the extra steps land on an officer who is still working out what happened.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives48
- Confidence58
Waymo puts its 200 million driverless miles up against the Cybercab's cameras
Waymo's software VP never names Tesla in his 200-million-mile post, but it arrives as the Cybercab does, and New Jersey is already weighing a bill that would write sensor redundancy into the law deciding who can operate.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption74
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
Robotaxi Tracker says every Austin ride it logged over two weeks ran unsupervised, seven months after Musk said the monitors were gone. The instrument is one person's crowdsourced site.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 27%
- Operator
- Operator 46%
- Investor
- Investor 27%
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives68
- Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher California's heavy-truck permits start a mileage clock, not a driverless freight service
Aurora and Kodiak can now run supervised autonomous trucks on California roads. Two consecutive 500,000-mile gates mean the safety operator stays in the cab for a long time.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption28
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives62
- Confidence55