Tesla plans to offer a chauffeur-style service operated by human drivers to a limited number of people in the San Francisco Bay Area, a California regulator said on Friday, contrary to a media report that the EV maker would offer a robotaxi service.

Gary Black expressed skepticism about Tesla's robotaxi test in SF. Black says FSD cannot be fully autonomous until safety driver is removed.

“Tesla has, through its own decisions, deprived the public, deprived DMV and ultimately deprived itself of the credible data that it would need to make that argument” that its autonomous vehicle system is safe enough to operate driverlessly, Walker Smith said.