Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) “Elon Musk: Tesla’s Robotaxi Goal Is Speed — But Safety Comes First With Robotaxi” — TopicDigg

Elon Musk: Tesla’s Robotaxi Goal Is Speed — But Safety Comes First With Robotaxi, our goals are very ambitious, but we do need to be cautious about causing any accidents or causing any harm to anyone. Although there are, I think, 30 to 40,000 automotive deaths per year in the United States alone, most of those do not generate any publicity. You never really read about almost any of those. But if we injure even one person, it becomes a worldwide headline news story, and regulators will immediately clamp down on all our activities. And we don't want anyone to get hurt. So, we are scaling Robotaxi as fast as humanly possible, but while making sure that we do not harm anyone at all. Ideally, we don't even want to run over a pet. So, that's really the constraint: we want to go as fast as possible, but without causing harm to anyone.