Elon Musk says Tesla is trying to prevent robotaxis from running over cats at night

Elon Musk says gray cats on a dark road are vexing for robotaxis. Kaylee Greenlee/Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk said one problem for robotaxis at night has whiskers and a tail. "Literally trying to avoid grey kittens on grey tarmac in the dark," he said. A Waymo hit and killed a cat at night last year. There are many challenges to putting self-driving cars on the road. Elon Musk says one of them has nine lives. The Tesla CEO announced on Saturday that the company is expanding the operating hours of its robotaxis from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. in Austin and said that his team has been trying to overcome a rather stealthy problem. "The main thing we're trying to solve is making sure that we don't run over pets when they're hard to see at night," Musk wrote in an X post .