Tesla Robotaxi Rams Austin Street Bollards Weeks After Safety Claims

An unsupervised Tesla $TSLA Robotaxi rams through plastic street bollards in Austin. Video footage captured a Model Y stopping for the visible barricade, creeping forward, reversing, and then driving straight through it. Tesla's perception system detected the barrier, but the vehicle failed to path out of the mistake. Tesla VP of AI Ashok Elluswamy previously told investors the company logged over 380,000 unsupervised miles with zero notable incidents. Tesla's active unsupervised fleet dropped to 14 vehicles in June across all markets. "We have driven more than 380,000 miles of unsupervised robotaxi now across six cities in two different states. We have had zero notable incidents." — Ashok Elluswamy Solving edge cases with scale doesn't work when perception detects an obstacle and software chooses collision anyway.