Self-Driving works decently in predictable environments but anything outside of those limits can make it literally crash and burn.

Public road transportation by individuals just has too many cases where real decision-making is required.

Despite all their resources, I think they’ve given up. All the brilliant engineers and scientists have given up, because they know what we’ve suspected for a long time.

I mean, Waymo is still actively expanding to new cities and expanding its coverage areas within cities.

Tesla may have given up on the consumer market for that reason if they were banking on a super llm based self driving system, or it could just be because they got burned when Elon rallied consumers against them.

Supposedly Musky is going to build robots instead of cars.

Hold on, wait, whoa, really? The great and respectable Tesla has to exit the consumer space? What? No! Surely big brain genuis can find a solution! They can’t? Wow. I am sure each and every one of you will have wet sloppy pillows tonight, from all the crying! I am shocked! Shocked I say!!!

…actually, not that shocked.

Tesla sunset two of their models, three still for sale and being built. Definitely not giving up on AI or FSD, they are doubling down on cybercab, and elons pay package is tied to FSD subscriptions. If anything, the messaging is they are ramping up AI investment. Humans crash and burn regularly too. Brilliant engineers have definitely not given up, I’m not sure why anyone would think that. AI has continued to improve pretty steadily in all areas (see benchmarks)

Elon won’t give up, he can’t fathom not being right about something.