“The astute reader will note that this is the 11th year in a row that the CEO of Tesla has made this prediction of the same milestone happening the next year. We can admire the consistency.”
Every deployed robotaxi service has remote human operators, and the companies do not advertise it. Cruise is gone. Tesla’s robotaxi demo ran on a studio lot and its humanoid robots were tele-operated. Brooks keeps score so nobody gets to forget.