Elon Musk explains why Tesla is being extremely careful while scaling Robotaxi The ambition is massive...but Elon’s priority is making sure they do not hurt anyone There are roughly 30,000–40,000 automotive deaths every year in the U.S., and most receive almost no national attention But if a Tesla Robotaxi... injures even ONE person, it can instantly become worldwide headline news and regulators could clamp down on the entire operation So Tesla has to do two things at the same time: Scale Robotaxi as fast as humanly possible AND make sure it causes essentially no harm Elon put it very simply: “We do not want to injure anyone” “And ideally...not even run over a pet” That is the real constraint on Robotaxi right now And despite being this cautious, the rollout is accelerating fast Tesla’s authorized Cybercab fleet in Texas has nearly QUADRUPLED in just one month 45 → 169 Cybercabs And Tesla now has 589 Robotaxi vehicles authorized in Texas when you include 420 Model Ys Unsupervised Robotaxi miles have also been growing at double-digit rates week after week So Tesla is not moving slowly It’s scaling incredibly fast while trying to maintain an insanely high safety bar That’s the balance Elon is trying to solveshow more

It’s crazy how politicized and scrutinized $TSLA FSD is, considering how safe it is compared to a human driving a car. Think about it 30 to 40 THOUSAND people die in car crashes a year and just one death in a Tesla FSD vehicle and the media and world would try to shut it all down. I know regardless if I am driving or my Tesla is driving there is risk by being on the road. But I also believe Tesla FSD is safer and it’s on me for trusting it just like it’s on me trusting other drivers on the road.

They are blazing a trail of challenges that no one has ever attempted before... What a lofty goal!

I respect this point as well: the ambition is massive, but the priority is making sure they do not hurt anyone. The same order showed up when Grok was starting. Early on, the choice was not to look at users’ private data, and not to train on it — and not to reach into other people’s servers — even if that slowed how fast the model could be finished. Completion speed was placed below user safety. That is the part I pay respect to. Scale as fast as you can, but do not buy the speed by harming people.

Marvellous!

I agree with his goal of not harming anyone. If FSD Telsa killed a single person, it would be headline news everywhere. It's astonishing that 3200 people are killed daily on the road worldwide, but no one cares.

Elon’un bu yaklaşımı gerçekten çok mantıklı 👏🚗⚡ Güvenlik her şeyden önce geliyor, bir kişi bile zarar görmesin diye bu kadar titiz davranmaları harika 🛡️❤️ Yılda on binlerce kaza olurken kimse konuşmuyor ama Robotaxi’de tek bir olay bile dünya gündemi oluyor, o yüzden bu dengeyi tutturmak şart ⚖️🌍 Buna rağmen Texas’ta filoyu bir ayda neredeyse 4 katına çıkarmaları muazzam bir hız 🚀📈 45’ten 169 Cybercab’a çıkmak + Model Y’lerle toplam 589 araç gerçekten etkileyici 🔥🤖 Gözetimsiz miller de her hafta artıyormuş, yavaş gitmiyorlar, sadece ultra dikkatli gidiyorlar 🐢➡️🐆 “Kimseyi yaralamayalım, mümkünse evcil hayvanı bile ezmeyelim” demesi çok insani 🐶🐱💚 Bu hız + bu güvenlik barı bir arada tutulursa Robotaxi gerçekten devrim olur 🌟🚕✨ Başarılar Tesla! 💪🔋

The goal isn’t to scale fast at any cost. It’s to scale fast without hurting anyone. That’s what makes Tesla’s approach so important.

He’s always concerned about others. 🤗

This is the way 🫡

Awesome 👍

Humans get graded on a curve, robotaxis get graded on headlines. Going 45 to 169 Cybercabs in a month under that spotlight is wild. What safety bar gets you in one: 2x human or 10x?

The hard part of scaling autonomous systems isn’t only preventing incidents — it’s being able to reconstruct them when something happens. Context → decision → action → outcome → evidence. If that chain is preserved, a failure can become a safety improvement signal instead of just another incident report. That’s a problem we’re exploring with @ekosproject

This is the way 🫡

This is the real challenge with Robotaxi: scale aggressively without compromising safety. Tesla isn’t just trying to deploy thousands of autonomous vehicles, it’s trying to build a system where even a single serious incident is extraordinarily rare. The ambition is massive, but the safety bar has to be even higher. If Tesla can keep expanding while maintaining that standard, Robotaxi could become one of the most transformative technologies in transportation history. The future is arriving, but safety has to lead the way.

Trucking already lives with this asymmetry. Truck crashes draw outsized headlines and "nuclear verdicts" worth tens of millions, which have pushed insurance costs up across the industry. Autonomy will be judged the same way: not on averages, but on the one crash everyone sees.

yeah the asymmetry is brutal, one incident and its over

@elonmusk tenha cuidado para você não perder o controle

It's incredible. I watched this one hour ago! Great Post.

@elonmusk 😀

@elonmusk The media loves to use “Tesla” in their accident headlines when the vehicle had no contributing factor to the incident!

@elonmusk Thanks for you extreme care.

Such a good man.

@elonmusk Who cares about humans. Injure a pet and I’ll turn my long into a short so fast

@elonmusk No shit Elon just called me asking me to Dow load telegram . Lol

@elonmusk Oh so that’s why there’s no family van as of yet? I gotchu

Safety first

@elonmusk good @XFreeze @elonmusk @JeanneBauer42

Make sure it doesn't hurt anyone? When all the Uber and Lyft drivers are out of a job, do you think that will hurt?

That’s some hard choices to be making and , decisions, Elon you send rockets into space , anyone in life has to be real like nothing is Bullet proof except maybe one of your cars lol, so mistakes happen I understand you want yo be super careful but if anyone allows the ai to drive them then they have to realize the chances one is taking when a machine can’t process like a human I would think that risk falls in the persons lap that crawls into that car, people have to stop blaming you for everything and take some accountability just saying , if that helps

Those numbers are brutal. Curious if people will actually trust a robot more than another human behind the wheel.