Tesla Robotaxi riders report detours after Houston service expands
THE SO WHAT
The routing issues after Tesla’s Houston expansion are a reminder that autonomy failures show up first as UX friction—long detours and bad pickup points—before they show up as safety events. If you’re deploying AVs or any autonomy at city scale, treat expansion as a staged ops problem, not just a software flag flip.
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