Yesterday I took my first unsupervised Robotaxi in 3 months and the car got stuck in an infinite loop at pickup
It looped two times and failed to pull over at the original pin, looped again and failed on the auto adjusted pin, then it adjusted to another pin and failed to pull over again. After looping there it adjusted again to another pin even further away and finally pulled over.
I waited for 20 minutes watching it circle around the block. I think this might be a new worst pickup in an AV for me, certainly not a great customer experience
Other thoughts from my rides yesterday/today:
- availability has been great, 15 mins or less every time I've opened the app
- super quiet and smooth, no AV is even close
- nothing beats the Tesla infotainment experience: amazing audio quality, very responsive, and fully featured media apps
- almost never can edit destination (even minor pin edits next to each other): the same error message about end of vehicle service. the odd thing is when I cancel and rebook at corrected pin I get matched to the same car
- lot of other random papercuts: one car I was logged out of my profile on both trips, another the audio seemed to be directed toward the rear, one where eta to pickup stalled because car was stuck in apartment complex dead end
I think my takeaway is the same as it was three months ago. Robotaxi has the highest highs and the lowest lows of AVs. The floor has definitely risen though (the service is actually usable now), and excited to see things continue to move in a positive direction