Tesla hiring robotaxi test drivers in NYC, hasn’t applied for permits

Tesla With “Automatic Driving Systems”, he hired the test drivers in New York to operate cars, but the company did not apply for permissions to test autonomous vehicles in the country’s largest city.

A work opening Tesla says on the website that he wants to hire vehicle operators in Queens district of the company. Recruitment “will be responsible for using an engineering tool for a long time, and the dynamic sound and camera data collection for test and training.”

The New York City Transportation Spokesman told CNBC on Monday, Tesla’s AVs did not apply for approvals to test the city streets in New York. InSideevsAn electric vehicle news site, Tesla’nın Brooklyn’deki Robotaxisi’deki test drivers had reported.

According to the DOT spokesman, any company that gets permission to test AV in New York must always keep a trained security driver behind the steering wheel ready to control the control of a hunting -active vehicle.

He said Tesla has not yet applied for the permission to test automatic driving systems in New York state. Such a permission will be required when it comes to a human driver.

Tesla did not respond to the request for comment.

Alphabet Waymo, the Robotaxi leader in North America, applied to test their AV in New York. The application is still studying. A DMV spokesman told CNBC that the process is still in work and will be approved by the city and the state.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to sell investors for a future for AI and Robotics, rather than the sale of existing vehicles. However, Tesla obtains almost all of its revenues from the sales of homes and battery energy storage systems.

Tesla’s home sales declined this year, especially in Europe, in part, in part of Musk’s decision to focus on Cybertruck instead of producing a more affordable house with the main charm. Some of the struggles of the company are Musk’s provocative political discourse, working with President Donald Trump and a political hill against Tesla because of the approval of Germany’s anti -immigrant AfD party.

In addition to the recruitment efforts at Queens, Tesla is trying to rent test drivers for autopilot team to collect data from the cities and suburbs in California, as well as Houston, Tampa, Orlando and Miami suburbs, hosting Tesla’s General Directorate of Engineering Center.

The existing lists on Tesla’s website say that Autopilot vehicle operators may need to travel to international and domestic destinations, and Tesla’s Robotaxi and FSD, or fully self -driving system, should be familiar with “automatic driving systems” that proposes planned or continuous testing.

Tesla won a win in Texas last week and received a driving greeting service in the state. Tesla Robotaxi LLC permission and state arrangements do not require Tesla to keep a human security driver on board.

However, Tesla has been running a robotaxi fleet in Austin since the end of June, and employees have been riding a front passenger seat, and if necessary, manually intervening during a journey. Service can only be accessed for invited users. Musk said he wanted the Austin service to be opened to the public in an article in X at the weekend. Next month.

In San Francisco, Tesla also operates a limited, manned car service, but encourages it as a “autonomous journey”.

Musk said last week that the company could not use the word “taxi” or “taxi” in California in the Gulf Region “and that it is possible to use more than 100 Teslas (more than 100 Teslas) that cannot allow anyone to ask for a journey.

The California Public Services Commission, in a recent E -mail to the CNBC, said the company has no authority to carry passengers on public roads in autonomous vehicles in California.

Tesla’s approach to AVS, followed by the wounded or damaging collisions that occur when using the company’s autop pilot or FSD systems of the drivers, the product responsibility cases and recalls.

California DMV previously filed a lawsuit against Tesla and accused him of false advertisements around the driver’s help systems.

Tesla owners say that there are systems on “hands” systems that require a driver ready to guide or brake at any time, and Tesla. Musk He shared for years by saying that a Tesla could do “Drive yourself.”

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