Got a friend who has been an early Tesla booster. He has managed to receive early betas of the software. He made a statement to us that Tesla had finally achieved fully autonomous driving. I was a bit skeptical but he said wait and see, its happening this year.
Now with this announcement I concede that he may have seen the future. Course with Musk's record of delivery it may well be 2025 before we see full remote driving but that's still better than the SF zeitgeist thinks it will happen.
Here's a reference to Musk in 2019 saying that he would release robotaxis in 2020. "Musk pitched the robo-taxis as a way for Tesla owners to make money when they aren’t using their vehicles." https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/22/tech/tesla-robotaxis/inde...
I've been watching the Whole Mars Catalog channel on Youtube for a while ( https://www.youtube.com/@WholeMars/videos ), he's been trying out FSD beta versions for some time now and posting the unedited drive videos, and recently I've seen the results he's getting with 12.3.3 are substantially better than v11 from last year. I do think it's at the threshold of robotaxi capability from what I've seen there, very little if any intervention for long drives through the city dealing with construction, stopped delivery vehicles, jaywalkers, etc.
Now with this announcement I concede that he may have seen the future. Course with Musk's record of delivery it may well be 2025 before we see full remote driving but that's still better than the SF zeitgeist thinks it will happen.