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Tesla's self-driving is still not working in Boring Company's one-way tunnels (electrek.co)
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Tesla uberbulls often like to say that Tesla is the leader in self-driving because while it doesn’t have a commercially available autonomous ride-hailing service like Waymo, it doesn’t rely on geo-fencing and mapping like Waymo.

They argue that if Tesla wanted to do that it could, but it prefers to focus on an autonomous system that could drive anywhere, anytime, without mapping.

However, it is questionable that they could do it if they wanted to because they still haven’t done it on a project much simpler than Waymo’s operations in Pheonix and other cities: the tunnels under Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is The Boring Company’s first full-scale loop project currently in commercial use.

Elon Musk’s tunneling start-up completed the $50 million project in just over a year.

A Boring Company Loop system consists of tunnels in which Tesla electric vehicles travel at high speeds between stations to transport people within a city. The Boring Company said that it was working with Tesla to use its self-driving system inside those tunnels, which would enables to get rid of the current drivers and lower the cost of operation.

However, 2 years and several more tunnels connected to the Loop later, The Boring Company is still using drivers in the tunnels.

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[–] fpslem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elon started this just to push ~~better forms of public transit out~~ more Tesla cars.

FTFY. If Musk wanted better transit this would have been a tram or train, and it would serve the whole strip and the airport.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was saying he was pushing better transit out as in making sure it didn't get made. Sorry if that was unclear.

[–] fpslem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, gotcha, and 100% that. Didn't he eventually admit that his phoney-baloney Hyperloop design was just an attempt to undermine California HSR? What a cancer that dude has become.