The real world experiences here are a good basis for predicting that the development emphasis on making a robotaxi later this year will be a dumpster fire. It's hard to believe it wasn't taken for self parody when Elon announced it on an earnings call.
Just going from sitting in the driver's seat to sitting in the back seat would require that, by now, FSD would have to be reliably comfortable and the only issue with not using it would be price.
There are safer-than-Uber, but still not flawless, robotaxis in limited areas. We know what it takes to get there. We also know it has to be done with great care and a huge amount of preparation. It isn't cheap or fast.
Just going from sitting in the driver's seat to sitting in the back seat would require that, by now, FSD would have to be reliably comfortable and the only issue with not using it would be price.
There are safer-than-Uber, but still not flawless, robotaxis in limited areas. We know what it takes to get there. We also know it has to be done with great care and a huge amount of preparation. It isn't cheap or fast.