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Tesla launches autonomous taxi service in Austin with Model Y vehicles
- Tesla launched a small-scale pilot of its autonomous taxi service in Austin, causing its stock to rise over 8%.
- The pilot features about 10 self-driving Model Y SUVs with a range of over 330 miles and up to seven seats.
- Tesla's autonomous driving platform, Fully Self-Driving, is powered by AI models trained with anonymized data from customers' vehicles.
- Tesla's self-driving vehicles use more than half a dozen cameras, unlike some companies like Waymo which utilize cameras, radar, and lidar sensors.
- The autonomous taxis will operate in a limited area in Austin between 6:00 a.m. and midnight, initially available to social media influencers.
- Early videos show incidents where autonomous Model Y vehicles violated traffic laws, potentially raising concerns about the technology's reliability.
- The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has investigated Tesla's autonomous driving software due to prior collisions involving enabled software and reports of crashes related to the Smart Summon feature.
- Regulatory scrutiny may impact Tesla's plans to expand the autonomous taxi service to San Francisco and Los Angeles and launch the Cybercab with no steering wheel by 2027.
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