Ep #4 | Ethan McKenna, Creator of RobotaxiTracker.com: Knows More than Tesla about Robotaxi Fleets

Ethan McKenna is 18 years old, attends Texas A&M, and built the most accurate autonomous vehicle tracking system in the country. He reverse-engineered Tesla's app, trained machine learning models on 1,000 Austin traffic cameras, and became the only source tracking Tesla's supervised vs unsupervised robotaxi percentage in real time. The New York Times calls him for data. Tesla offered him an internship. He finished school first. 00:00 Introduction 03:00 How robotaxitracker.com was built 10:00 What the data actually shows vs what Tesla says 18:00 Which cities Waymo expands to next 24:00 Will cities ban human driving in five years 30:00 The generational divide on autonomous vehicles Ethan's prediction: some cities will ban human driving entirely within five years. His dad said he would rather be dead than lose his right to drive. His mom took one Waymo ride and never looked back. 🏁 goautolane.com 📧 Subscribe to the Autonomous Commerce Brief: goautolane.com/newsletter-signup 🎙️ Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4Nbu8QgXVB2SNLz68AVGK4 #Tesla #TeslaFSD #Robotaxi #Waymo #AutonomousVehicles #RobotaxiTracker #AVData #AutonomousCommerce #LastMile #Autolane