For some years a new trend in the mobility sector with taxis began, such as the concept of autonomous conduction where they can be conducted without the need for human intervention, so they are also called Robotaxis. Tesla was one of the pioneers to introduce this innovation, but he has fallen asleep and another company has flooded the streets with this technology although there are already collisions and serious investigations.
Tesla and Robotaxis Technology
Tesla has a very ambitious project that involves the development and commissioning of the other year, of its models called Robotaxis. These are self -employed cars that are made to offer the completely automated taxis service. They operate the same as an Uber, regarding the platform to request and provide the benefit, with the proviso that they do not use driver.
Since they are equipped with a system that includes deep cameras, sensors of different types such as Lidar, GPS to select the best route, among others that allow a very safe driving. The Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has said that it will soon be a reality that will change the way of seeing taxis. However, It seems that this last year he has fallen asleep and another company has invaded the market.
The Tesla competition that floods the streets with autonomous taxis
In spite of the initial impulse in the development and research of the robotaxis by Tesla, lately it has slowed down, an issue that has taken advantage of the company Amazon.com to introduce Zoox, which are its version of robotic driving taxis with which, literally, the cities are flooding. These vehicles are quite similar to those of the company of the South African businessman.
Above all, in relation to the component that gives priority to the care of human life, both passengers and people outside the car between them the pedestrians, cyclists, motorized and occupants of other vehicles (as this car that has own driving card). However, perhaps they rushed because the autonomous software of their robotaxis has presented a serious failure.
The fault that forced the retirement of 278 autonomous taxis in Las Vegas
The Amazon company, at its headquarters in California, United States, has announced the withdrawal of 278 Zoox Robotaxis vehicles. The reason for this decision is that your Automatic driving software It is causing risks and accidents because of its tendency to make unexpected and abrupt braking in situations where you could simply make a maneuver to avoid, resulting in two injured people.
This failure corresponds to versions that were launched in prior dates to November 5 last year. The problem, specifically, corresponds when a cyclist or motorized approaches behind the car quickly and is unnecessarily brakes in an abrupt way for having erroneously detected a risk of collision. The other situation corresponds to when a cyclist or motorized is on a pedestrian crossing.
If the autonomous taxi has green in the traffic light, brake sharply by excessive caution. However, the operating company of this line has solved the problem only carrying out An update of the program that commands the vehicle. Although the company states that the tests carried out have been satisfactory and no more incidents have been registered, they continue to follow up closely.
In summary, although Tesla seems to have fallen asleep and Amazon took the opportunity to flood the streets with their robotaxis, it has failures that have caused collisions and injuries (which can undermine their reliability and make victims of vandalism). This is why they had to withdraw 278 vehicles, although they have also announced that they have solved the problem with an autonomous system software update.
