Zooxco-founderJesse Levinsonon Wednesday dismissed the possibility ofTesla Inc(NASDAQ:TSLA) deploying autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in California next year, alleging that the EV giant lacks a technology that works.

What Happened:Tesla is faced with a lot of regulatory hurdles that they haven't even started trying to climb yet, Levinson said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 event in San Francisco. But the fundamental problem, he said, is that Tesla doesn't have a "technology that worked."

"By works, I want to differentiate between a driver assistance system that drives most the time except when it...