Tesla’s Robotaxis have been involved in numerous crashes since CEO Elon Musk jumpstarted the service this summer in Texas, raising concerns that the self-driving taxicabs aren’t quite road ready.

Adding to those concerns, it’s not entirely clear that the company’s “safety” drivers, who sit in the car ready to take over if it runs into trouble, are up to the job. Case in point, a Reddit user says that one such supervisor fell asleep three times while they were a passenger in a Tesla Robotaxi in San Francisco, — and they captured one of the nap sessions on video, showing the driver slumped behind the wheel while the vehicle is moving in a dark yet comic snapshot of our technological era.

“Each time the car’s pay attention safety alert went off and the beeping is what woke him back up,” the

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