Hi, everybody. I'm Brittany Lewis, a breaking news reporter here at Forbes.

Joining me now is my colleague Alan Outsman, Forbes senior editor and author of the current climate newsletter.

Alan, thank you so much for joining me.

Hi, Brittany. Good to be with you today.

It is good to have you back because Tesla right now is preparing to release a small fleet

of robo-taxies onto the streets of Austin in June.

And you're reporting that this rollout from Elon Musk's EV company looks like a disaster

waiting to happen.

So to start off the conversation, how so?

What is this disaster that you're predicting? Well, you know, sometimes products launch when they're ready and sometimes products launch because someone just wants to put it out.

In this case, there is absolutely, objectively, no evidence that Tesla is ready for this step.

For years, they have offered software known as autopilot and then FSD, full self-driving,

neither of which are technically full self-driving, because they do require a person to be

watching and engaged at all times because they're flawed. To jump from that to then a robo-taxie service that's making its way around a busy urban

area like Austin, Texas, with lots of pedestrians, bicyclists, dogs, you know, double-parked

trucks, that is a big leap. And there has just up to this point absolutely no evidence to back up any

of the claims being made by Elon Musk and Tesla about doing this.

So it seems highly risky, but it is to make good on a promise that he made.

He said, we will do this in June, and by God, they're going to try to do it in June.

And so you're saying, hey, this is not safe here.

I mean, how is it not safe?

Walk us through exactly what we know about the safety features so far of these Tesla Robotaxies?

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