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Re:Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month... by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:46PM (#47054523)
> robotaxi is the name of the tesla unsupervised driving program

“robotaxi” is a generic term for (when the term was coined, hypothetical) self-driving taxicabs, that predates Tesla existing. “Tesla Robotaxi” is the brand-name of a (slightly more than merely hypothetical, today) Tesla service (for which a trademark was denied by the US PTO because of genericness). Tesla Robotaxi, where it operates, provides robotaxis, but most robotaxis operating today are not provided by Tesla Robotaxi.

Re:Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month... by parl_match on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:53PM (#47054589)
> Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans

hm yes i can see where the confusion lies