Safety Scrutiny Continues as Tesla Prepares to Launch Robotaxis
- On June 12, 2025, an anti-Tesla demonstration in downtown Austin showed a Tesla Full Self-Driving vehicle hitting a child-sized dummy crossing a street near a stopped school bus.
- The demonstration by The Dawn Project, Resist Austin, and Tesla Takedown aimed to expose safety flaws in Tesla's FSD software ahead of Tesla's planned robotaxi launch on June 22 in Austin.
- Critics and safety advocates highlighted Tesla's incomplete transparency about safety testing, frequent software failures in edge cases, and concerns about public risk without proper oversight or emergency protocols.
- Tesla intends to launch roughly 10 remotely supervised, geofenced robotaxis utilizing updated Full Self-Driving software in Austin, while a federal agency overseeing highway safety continues its investigation, with responses due by June 19.
- This event fuels ongoing debate on the readiness of autonomous technology and the need for standardized communication with emergency personnel before expanding fully driverless services.
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