Elon Musk promises Tesla robotaxis in August while denying reports about Tesla's future | Mashable.
Elon Musk promises Tesla robotaxis in August
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Elon Musk, as the billionaire head of X and Tesla is wont to do, fired off a tweet announcing major business news without providing further clarification.
Musk tweeted Friday, "Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8." That was shortly before 5 p.m. ET after the stock market had closed.
This post was almost assuredly a response to a detailed report from Reuters about Tesla's Robotaxi plan. The news service had published an in-depth feature reporting that Tesla wanted to scrap its plan to manufacture a low-cost vehicle in favor of the robotaxi.
In response, Musk posted, "Reuters is lying (again)." Musk did not refute anything specific about the Reuter's report, however. Then, not much later, Musk posted the tweet saying Robotaxi would be unveiled on Aug. 8, seemingly in line with Reuters' reporting.
As is often the case with the Tesla CEO, it's tough to parse what is real and what is bluster because Musk has such a knack for it. Even if the Robotaxi is unveiled in August, that doesn't mean we'll suddenly have them all over the road. Dropping the curtain on a car is relatively easy when compared to having functional, safe, and legal automated cars on the road.
Remember when Tesla unveiled a robot with a guy dancing in a robot suit then later unveiled a robot that couldn't stand? Keep that in mind when thinking about what we'll actually get in August.
Autonomous vehicles will decrease the world auto fleet by 75%, a very good thing for the planet and the humans living there
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DeleteAnd soon we will have teleportation, and all cars will be obsolete. Source: Same as yours.
DeleteThey already exist. They are all over Vegas. It’s called zoox they are in a couple cities it said they were still in a test program but once the testing complete, then they’ll be available with another places
ReplyDeletewhy is he not? Do tell
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ReplyDeleteTesla is the most American car company, both in terms of ownership and in terms of production.
Deletedon’t be. We need him
DeleteI think the world had already seen how to do it, but as I mentioned was before its time. Again, he didn't invent tesla, he bought it. I don't buy into the idea that he's a super genius and the only one to move this along. Obviously gas powered manufacturers were late to the game since they didn't want to abandon their current products, and were preasured by big oil to take it slow.
DeleteHe's going to drop the cheaper vehicles to instead produce robotaxis? That may help larger cities, but leave suburbs in tough shape for switching to EVs.
sure but he made it all possible. If you don't already know this you need to do some research
DeleteThere are other companies making electric vehicles, he doesn't have to be the ONE.
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Deletewhy?
DeleteI don’t doubt that the tech will eventually get here, but I’m not looking forward to robotaxis driving like grandmas in the interim.
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DeleteYou have not seen videos of the latest Tesla FSD 12.3.3, I assume? If anything people complain that it drives too aggressively, certainly not grandma style. 😄But it seems to work incredibly well.
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DeleteI don’t take orders. Lol
DeleteOnly if he rides in it for a year to show us all how safe it is. That should be long enough for Darwin's principles to take over.
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ReplyDeleteSo now Elon Musk will get part of your $$$$ and all the taxi drivers will be unemployed. Do we really want this?
ReplyDeleteHe didn't promise "safe" robotaxis. Just the existence of said things. Ergo, he'll fail on the project yet claim victory for some prototype that YouTubers will break down and laugh at for how stupid the investors must be to fall for it.
ReplyDeletehe's repeatedly laid out "much safer than the average manual drivers" as the minimal goal for FSD.
DeleteAnd he didn't say that the windows were bulletproof, he said that the stainless steel body would be bulletproof, up to 9mm handguns at 10 meters, which it is. Making things up and then disproving them doesn't prove much except that you have a loose grasp on reality.
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Deleteyeah, and the windows will totally be bullet proof too 🙄
DeleteNot exactly, unveiling doesn't mean the same thing as launching a service that day, it's far more likely to be a tech demo and the start of a process that leads to regulatory approvals to start operating, which in the US has to be approved state-by-state, a long process as each state has its own requirements and process.
ReplyDeleteOn the plus side, it takes perhaps 1/10th as many robotaxis to provide the same transportation as single-owner vehicles. Ridesharing vehicles are around 50% utilization, compared to single owner vehicles being 5-10% utilized, personal vehicles spend most of their time parked while you're at home or at work. So ecologically speaking, fewer cars that are more utilized consume a lot less resources in manufacturing, space consumed parking, etc. This has a lot of impact on city planning, because cities typically allocate 40% of space to cars (roads, parking lots, parking structures) and robotaxis have the potential to significantly reduce that.
Why would a robotaxi be any more efficient than ride share or standard taxi? Taxis and ride shares can be electric too. Where do these robotaxis go when not being used? And what happens when they get locked up in a grid lock?
Deletein terms of utilization it would be about the same, making it self-diving drives down costs, making it much cheaper, and thus affordable to many more people, allowing millions more people to utilize it, shifting more people from buying cars to rideshare, etc.
DeleteI would have hoped ride shares would have shifted people from buying cars less, but it didn't. Not sure self-driving will do any better at this. I don't understand the reasoning that a driverless car would be more utilized than a share or standard taxi.
Deletein industry studies, ridesharing has significantly reduced individual ownership, families buy fewer “second/third cars” because they can use ridesharing for occasional needs.
DeleteAgain, ridesharing and robotaxis should be about the same utilization rate, around 50% instead of the 5-10% for individual ownership, the big difference is economics, that a robotaxi should cost much less, making it more accessible to more people, and increasing the shift from car ownership to ridesharing (robotaxis) because the less a robotaxi costs the more likely people are to use them instead of buying a car. So that is, the number of ridesharing vehicles would go up, and the number of individually driven cars would go down, expanding the percentage of cars that are more efficiently utilized, and driving down the average cost of transportation.
Given Elons tenuous grasp on the facts, I’d be a bit dubious of the facts he used to build the cars.
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Deleteno thanks
Deletegood development for shareholders---not so good for professional drivers.
ReplyDeleteMashable delivers skepticism
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Does he? Mashable just repackaged the Reuters news article that said he'd be unveiling robotaxi on 8/8.. which muck seems to deny, then agree with.. he's confused and/or on drugs again.
DeleteIs that on Mars or here on Earth?
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DeleteThere's one August every year so yeah, it's possible.
ReplyDeleteHe’ll say anything to boost the stock price. It’s better to watch what he actually does like scrap the entry level EV for $27k when he was telling investors all last year that was the next thing.
ReplyDeleteAnnounced in 2024, delivered in 2030. Classic.
ReplyDeleteAugust, sure!! 2035?
ReplyDeletethey just upgraded my Tesla for self driving autopilot, and it's quite amazing . The only thing I don't like, it's driving like a grandma. Otherwise it drove me from shopping mall to my garage with no problem. Oh, and one more thing, it successfully avoided bad accident! So don't be pessimistic. This thing grows really fast.
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ReplyDeleteApple just stopped producing robo taxis after investing millions. There all over San Francisco & they don't see pedestrians
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ReplyDeleteHe was just itching to post “8/8.” What a putz.
ReplyDeleteOn the date 88, not suspicious at all
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He did not say in what year!
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ReplyDeleteSure, because driverless taxis are proving to be so popular and safe in places like San Francisco 🙄
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ReplyDeleteAnd he will release FSD how many years ago?
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ReplyDeleteWouldn’t step a toe in one of those. Ever.
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ReplyDeleteHmm I’m sure Uber will have something to say about this ?! 😂
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