Tesla's Robotaxi Can't Drive in the Rain, and Dumps Passengers If the Weather Looks Risky. - FuelArc News
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The Tesla Robotaxi isn’t able to drive during rain, so our intrepid editors had wondered what happens if a rainstorm strikes while you’re riding in Tesla’s fair-weather autonomous taxi. Well, the Tesla Robotaxi cancels your fare and drops you off in the rain, that’s what happens. Seriously! Can’t make this stuff up. Watch a Tesla […]

Imagine a taxi that can’t operate in the rain. That is what Tesla has delivered in Austin TX.

These riders learned that the hard way, but don’t have anything particularly negative to say about it… That’s the advantage of only making a Robotaxi service available to hand-picked Tesla influencers.

      • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        …you know, I never thought of it that way before but yeah, the way our economic system is designed, money is like gravity. Once it passes a certain threshold, it just…accretes.

        And much like gravity it would take a rare and exceptionally violent event to break that hold and scatter it again in a way it won’t just pull back together.