Robotaxi in Disney

[JTT]

The Tesla Cyber Taxi aka Robotaxi website says it is in Orlando. Does that include Disney World? Has anyone seen one? Has anyone ordered one?

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

The Tesla Cyber Taxi aka Robotaxi website says it is in Orlando. Does that include Disney World? Has anyone seen one? Has anyone ordered one?

I didn't see Tesla, but did see the Waymo ones. I feel like we saw at least one at WDW, but I know we saw 3+ at the Universal hotels. I had no reason to order one. Looking online, it says initial ropllout in Feb was limited. The ones we saw appeared to be carrying people who were checking and checking out with luggage.

 

[mkt]

The Tesla Cyber Taxi aka Robotaxi website says it is in Orlando. Does that include Disney World? Has anyone seen one? Has anyone ordered one?

I’ve seen them in the area, but not on Disney property

 

[ChrisFL]

dang I hope not

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Question - can Disney prohibit them if they wanted to?

 

[JIMINYCR]

Question - can Disney prohibit them if they wanted to?

If they can restrict wheeled coolers, over sized strollers, stroller wagons, camera sticks etc. in the parks for guest safety then its possible they could prohibit those on their roadways. Although the crash rates that are available on these driverless types are reportedly much lower than human driven vehicles are they a hazard? Disney likes to promote how futuristic thinking they are, so I'm thinking they may set their own fleet to work shuttling guests around.

 

[ChrisFL]

Although the crash rates that are available on these driverless types are reportedly much lower than human driven vehicles are they a hazard?

For existing ones yes, but this one is brand new and very different. There's already some investigations going on with them.

Feds launch investigation into Tesla's Cybercab deployment | TechCrunch

The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.

techcrunch.com

 

[Ayla]

If they can restrict wheeled coolers, over sized strollers, stroller wagons, camera sticks etc. in the parks for guest safety then its possible they could prohibit those on their roadways. Although the crash rates that are available on these driverless types are reportedly much lower than human driven vehicles are they a hazard? Disney likes to promote how futuristic thinking they are, so I'm thinking they may set their own fleet to work shuttling guests around.

So...not at all.

 

[JIMINYCR]

For existing ones yes, but this one is brand new and very different. There's already some investigations going on with them.

Feds launch investigation into Tesla's Cybercab deployment | TechCrunch

The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.

techcrunch.com

The big focus comes from the newness of the type of travel and the lack of trust people have for a non human component in control.

The main focus is because we are not trusting in a non human driven vehicle. We hand over many aspects of our daily lives to other forms of technology but are not ready to be comfortable and trusting to hand over control to a non human driven vehicle. I'm not going to set foot in one and passively give my life over to a computer chip vehicle no matter how much they try to convince me that the safety monitors work.

 

[mkt]

Question - can Disney prohibit them if they wanted to?

Yes and no.

Disney can ban them from operating on its private property, including pickups and drop-offs, but it can’t prevent them from traveling on public roads owned by CFTOD that service WDW.