Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, May 19th.

Today on Forbes, Elon Musk's Tesla Robotaxi rollout looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

Elon Musk is rolling out a handful of Tesla Robotaxies in Austin next month,

where up to 20 self-driving electric model-wise will be unleashed to ferry

passengers around the Texas city streets. He's betting the future of Tesla on their success,

as the automaker's electric vehicle revenue tanks, thanks to faster-growing Chinese rivals

and a political backlash against Musk's right-wing politics and role as job slasher in chief

for the Trump administration.

But there's a big hitch.

Tesla hasn't proven its self-driving taxis are safe enough to start delivering rides.

Given its misleadingly named autopilot and full self-driving software's deadly track record,

Musk's failure to provide

detailed safety and technical data about Tesla's technology, and his determination to rely on

cheap cameras instead of more robust sensors to navigate complicated urban environments,

the Austin rollout could be a debacle.

Dan O'Dowd, a longtime critic of Musk's autonomous driving claims,

who spent his own money on Super Bowl commercials to call out autopilot and full self-driving,

or FSD, safety flaws, told Forbes, quote, it's going to fail for sure.

His anti-Tesla initiative, the Dawn Project, tests every update of FSD,

a more advanced version of which is powering Musk's robotaxies in Austin,

as soon as they're available.

That update is to roll out to all Tesla drivers who pay a $99 monthly subscription fee.

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