Elon Musk announces Tesla will unveil a 'robotaxi' on August 8(cnn.com)
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Elon Musk announces Tesla will unveil a 'robotaxi' on August 8
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/business/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-august-8/index.html
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My wife usually never uses FSD. Last night she casually mentioned it drove her home from her Mom's house (35 minutes) with no interventions.
As with all tech it's vapourware until it isn't.
As with all tech it's vapourware until it isn't.
I doubt your friend is anything more than a wishful thinker.
Is this just rage bait? He made the same announcement about robotaxis back in like 2020.
Have a link to that 2020 robotaxi unveiling announcement by chance?
Here's a reference to Musk in 2019 saying that he would release robotaxis in 2020. "Musk pitched the robo-taxis as a way for Tesla owners to make money when they aren’t using their vehicles." https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/22/tech/tesla-robotaxis/inde...
1 million robotaxis by end of 2020: https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...
He "unveiled" 90% autonomous driving over a decade ago and has produced a continuous stream of "unveils" ever since.
I see no reason to believe this "unveil" will be any different than all the other "unveils".
I see no reason to believe this "unveil" will be any different than all the other "unveils".
I mean, define 'unveil'.
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Cool, then I might buy one as a non driving license holder
I've been watching the Whole Mars Catalog channel on Youtube for a while ( https://www.youtube.com/@WholeMars/videos ), he's been trying out FSD beta versions for some time now and posting the unedited drive videos, and recently I've seen the results he's getting with 12.3.3 are substantially better than v11 from last year. I do think it's at the threshold of robotaxi capability from what I've seen there, very little if any intervention for long drives through the city dealing with construction, stopped delivery vehicles, jaywalkers, etc.
Chances are it'll be a man dressed as a robotaxi.
Now with this announcement I concede that he may have seen the future. Course with Musk's record of delivery it may well be 2025 before we see full remote driving but that's still better than the SF zeitgeist thinks it will happen.