And the inevitable happens - the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is now reviewing Tesla's Robotaxi program after the failure of a launch this past Sunday in Austin. Tesla paid influencers to livestream their initial reactions to the program, who ended up recording and publishing numerous traffic violations being committed by the autonomous vehicles.
Interestingly the NHTSA emphasized they do not "pre-approve" autonomous vehicles, but rather they are a purely investigative service - only looking into things after an incident has occurred.
This hasn't stopped TSLA from spiking 10% on the launch, of course.
MICROMAN