Why not have the driver ahead to point out any issues on the road to the car behind. Call it Potemkin Self-Driving.

i can't help but think of the scammy communication around this on X. and the actual need to be deceitful about it.

oh how low the mighty have fallen

I’m still surprised they don’t rig up an in-roof Starlink multi-beam array or something and just set the cars up for remote driving somewhere and just rely on tele-operation to fill the gaps (ala Vay, Phantom Auto, et al).

At least that level of cheating would have been more impressive than a safety monitor hanging onto the passenger window switch as a killswitch.

(Then maybe in the future, your remote tele-operation drivers are replaced with ‘the AI’ running in ‘the cloud’ instead over the same remote control link? Boom, I’ve also just solved the hardware upgrade issues…)

I'm unimpressed. What they've concretely seen is black Teslas driving behind two robotaxis.

They spin that into a viral story that the safety monitor was just moved to a following car. That might be true, but like the story says, it makes no sense.

So maybe there just happened to be two other Teslas in Austin traffic. It is the most sold car model in the country.