{"id":1737,"date":"2026-07-23T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/teslas-robotaxi-promises-are-clashing-with-reality\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:09:31","slug":"teslas-robotaxi-promises-are-clashing-with-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/teslas-robotaxi-promises-are-clashing-with-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s robotaxi promises are clashing with reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tesla Robotaxi on a graphic purple background.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Tesla\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/STKE001_STK086_Tesla_Robotaxi_3_D.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/969311\/tesla-q2-2026-earnings-revenue-profit-sales\">In an earnings call yesterday<\/a>, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did his best to paint a positive portrait of the company&#8217;s robotaxi program. New cities are being added, more miles are being driven, and more people are experiencing Tesla&#8217;s unsupervised vehicles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Musk&#8217;s typical bullishness seemed to be absent from the call, as the occasional trillionaire sought to temper expectations about the program&#8217;s future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going as fast as humanly possible in scaling Robotaxi,&#8221; Musk said, &#8220;while trying to ensure that we do not harm anyone at all and ideally do not even run over a pet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk&#8217;s insistence that Tesla&#8217;s robotaxi service was growing is clas \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/970003\/tesla-robotaxi-mileage-waymo-cities-earnings-musk\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earnings call yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did his best to paint a positive portrait of the company&#8217;s robotaxi program. New cities are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}