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Yesterday, Tesla began.

It's Robotaxie trial in Austin, a limited pilot for paying customers.

Although they weren't really paying, were they were superfan, influencers, kind of

YouTubers, podcasters, investors.

The analysts have got those big price targets on Tesla, so arguably they want the company

to do well to prove their analysis right, I don't know. However,

they were charging a nominal $4.20, the 4-20 marijuana reference that Manchild CEO Elon Musk seems

so keen on. And so they're not really paying, but they were.

They haven't said when that it will open to the wider public.

It covers a tiny area, 10 miles by 5 miles. So if you need to go in that tiny, closely mapped, Tesla have been running around with

LIDAR equipped vehicles and all sorts, that tight area.

Then you can do that now.

They've got a long way to catch up to competitors like Waymo,

but a big first step for Tesla in their autonomy plans.

And all seems to have gone.

Well, there's a couple of little moments where it drove into an oncoming lane and stuff like that.

I'm sure they'll nail these things.

Otherwise, it was mostly okay.

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