Tesla’s self-driving mode is ‘a bit stressful’ to use, the cofounder of a robotaxi company backed by Amazon says [Video]

The cofounder of Zoox, an Amazon-backed robotaxi company, said he sometimes feels nervous when using Tesla’s so-called Full Self-Driving mode.

Jesse Levinson, cofounder and chief technical officer of Zoox, owns a Tesla, he said, and sometimes uses the vehicle’s FSD, Tesla’s driver assistance software that requires constant driver supervision.

He shared his observations of the technology Wednesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.

FSD is a key piece of Tesla technology that will be critical for the company’s fully autonomous vehicle and robotaxi visions. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during the unveiling of the Cybercab earlier this month that his company will have unsupervised fully autonomous vehicles in California and Texas by next year and that the robotaxi will go into production by 2026.

Levinson said that, as it stands now, FSD often makes the right decisions until …