{"id":940516,"date":"2025-06-23T07:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940516"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:23:58","slug":"as-musks-robotaxi-rollout-approaches-democratic-lawmakers-in-texas-try-to-throw-up-a-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/23\/as-musks-robotaxi-rollout-approaches-democratic-lawmakers-in-texas-try-to-throw-up-a-roadblock\/","title":{"rendered":"As Musk&#8217;s &#8216;robotaxi&#8217; rollout approaches, Democratic lawmakers in Texas try to throw up a roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Democratic lawmakers in Texas is asking Elon Musk to delay the planned rollout of driverless &#8216;robotaxis&#8217; in the state this weekend to assure that the vehicles are safe. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter, seven state legislators asked Tesla to wait until September when a new law takes effect that will require several checks before autonomous vehicles can be deployed without a human in the driver&#8217;s seat. Tesla is slated to begin testing a dozen of what it calls robotaxis for paying customers on Sunday in a limited area of Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Democratic lawmakers in Texas is asking Elon Musk to delay the planned rollout of driverless &#8216;robotaxis&#8217; in the state this weekend to assure that the vehicles are safe. In a letter, seven state legislators asked Tesla to wait until September when a new law takes effect that will require several checks before autonomous vehicles can be deployed without a human in the driver&#8217;s seat. Tesla is slated to begin testing a dozen of what it calls robotaxis for paying customers on Sunday in a limited area of Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}