Elon Musk shows off two-seat robotaxi
Elon Musk shows off two-seat robotaxi
Tesla regularly makes bold promises it has not kept. Last night, it made many bold promises about autonomous driving and robotics.
For true believers who hear Musk talk but have paid little or no attention to Tesla's actual progress with autonomous driving technology, new car development, production ramping, or robotics, the event will have seemed like something of a success.
Fucking lol
88Please state the nature of the transportational emergency.
30If it didn't have Robert Picardos voice, I do not want
7That's the reason why Elon wants to fly to Mars, to get a working Johnny cab instead of his
crapcab. Now it makes all sense.1
If you managed to shop Elon's face on it, it would've been perfect. Cause let's be honest, he'd totally do it.
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As far as I understood, the robot taxis may start production by 2026 or 2027. Shouldn't we live all on Mars by then, according to Musk?
/s
31robotaxis will be viable about the time they are powered by on-board micro-fusion reactors. Which will be great bc you'll never need to plug them in or refuel.
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The man can't release an affordable electric car, despite it being on his roadmap for over a decade. Cunt isn't releasing an affordable taxi lol
21The more I think about the 2 seater taxi that they showed off at this event, the more I think that was originally one of the prototypes for the affordable car.
1Honestly, taxis don't need to be cheap, they need to be reliable. I'm sure a taxi company would be happy to spend $100k if it meant minimal maintenance and far less staff, since it would pay for itself pretty quickly.
The bigger question is, does it work? I'm guessing the answer to that is... no.
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Oh look con man trying to sell broken promises and cheap parlor tricks!
11Of they end up releasing full self driving taxis before the Tesla's sold with fsd are done I can imagine people that bought fsd will take issue.
Also their stock price did not like the announcement.
1I took a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. It was easy to use and I felt very safe; generally they drive like your granny. My second ride we ended up briefly stopped behind someone trying to do a left turn in an unexpected spot, and the car wavered left and right for a moment as it tried to decide what to do, not unlike human drivers. Given Tesla's not so great record on full self driving, I think given the choice I would probably stick with Waymo.
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9Who would win. A cyberpunk looking “$30k” robotaxi or one speed bump/pot hole
34When does it go into production? Whats the cost?
6When? Never
Cost? N/A
26That image is of the bus so it probably requires a 'fleet' type purchase alongside a maintenance contract
3No statements on production for the robovan. Cost he said would be $0.05-0.10/mile, though unclear if that was to the owner or to the customer. Double that for the customer and it's still very cost effective.
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