Tesla is publicly Established its future on her robotics. Now the company is planning to launch a public car service in San Francisco Bay Area. Tesla is calling it a “robotics” service, but legally, it will have to use cars with human drivers.
It seems that the electric car maker has been put into illegal legal waters in the US state, with the country’s most firmly sovereign autonomous industry.
On Friday, a spokesman for the California Public Utility Commission, who manages the health and taxi services of the rides in the state, said that Tesla told the agency on Thursday that it had planned only a taxi service to “select” employees and employees’ families and members of the public. Technically, Tesla is clearly to start such a service in California legally: In March, it obtained a “Transportation Charter Party” permit to take Tesla employees on a pre -prepared journey with the driver behind the wheel. But Tesla is Not Legally allowed an independent vehicle -based service there.
CPUC spokesperson Terry Propert wrote in an email, “Tesla is not allowed to test or transport the public (payment or free of charge) with the driver or without it (sovereign vehicle).” “Tesla is allowed to take the public non ((payment or free of charge) into a non (autonomous vehicle), which will surely be the driver.”
Business internal first reported that Tesla told employees that it had planned to launch a “robotics” service in the Bay area early Friday.
On Wednesday’s call for investors, AI Software’s Vice President of Tesla, Ashok Elviswamy, said that Tesla is working with the government to launch in the Bay area “to get approval. “Meanwhile, we will start service with someone on the driver’s seat when we wait for regulatory approval,” he said.
Legally, though, Tesla is currently not allowed to start any kind of service with autonomous vehicles, which means that the “individual on the driver’s seat” will have to be the driver. Proper says, Tesla does not have a permit to pilot the technology of autonomous vehicles, despite the security driver, “so it cannot use the driver (autonomous vehicle) in passenger services.”
It seems that Tesla is talking here on both sides of her mouth. The company insists on regulators that it is only running a taxi service in California, while shares and Wall Street suggest that the new taxi service uses “robotics” and is independent. It seems that the automatic maker has previously used techniques. Currently, it is in the administrative court with the state of California about the allegations that Tesla has been misled for selling consumers for many years to sell technology like “auto -pilot” and “full self -driving”, which is not meant to operate itself, but must monitor the human driver all the time.
“Tesla may not have these two routes,” says Philip Copman, a professor at Carnegie Melman University. Automatic maker “is giving California more ammunition for a false advertising case when insisting that it is a robotics when he is telling regulators that this is not really.”
