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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
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
Please state the nature of the transportational emergency.
If it didn't have Robert Picardos voice, I do not want
That's the reason why Elon wants to fly to Mars, to get a working Johnny cab instead of his ~~crap~~ cab. Now it makes all sense.
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.
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
Honestly, 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.
The 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.
Oh look con man trying to sell broken promises and cheap parlor tricks!
Who would win. A cyberpunk looking “$30k” robotaxi or one speed bump/pot hole
In the future, there are no potholes or imperfections of any kind. The ground and buildings are smooth, shiny, and constantly maintained to perfection somehow. Everything looks like a starship.
Camera pans down to the lower levels. Dark illuminated streets are visible, illuminated by sparse sunlight that manages to find cracks in the starship like road above. Flickering mismatched neon signs offer work, with long lines of broken humans waiting to find any job not taken over by AI and Optimus robots.
Everything's chrome in the future!
Of course, they will all be made of perfectly smooth glass because they will be Solar FREAKING roadways! Everyone knows this, duhh.
This is not the robotaxi
Yup, it's a concept car "robovan." And I think it looks gross.
I don't want to yuck your yum but I think it looks badass. I think the concept is badass. I don't want to own a car but I also can't afford a chauffeur. We don't have much of any public transit in my area. Bike paths are making progress but still not what I would consider safe. An autonomous van that carries 20 passengers would be very cost-effective. It's not an ideal solution but may be the best one we could actually implement using existing infrastructure and without voter approval.
Also that bottom part appears to be a similar height to any typical car to me, and is supposedly just an aerodynamic skirt that will fold up if it actually hits anything. That's what I've read but obviously can't verify.
I think the concept is cool, and it would probably make a good replacement for buses. In my area, we have on-demand vans run by the org that runs the buses, and they basically take people to/from any transit stop in the area. A robovan would replace those, and potentially replace buses as well, and they could run more frequently because you don't need to have drivers.
So I absolutely like the idea, but I still think it looks dumb. Why screens instead of windows? Why does it look like it's from a video game?
Why screens instead of windows?
I mean theoretically you could use Miracast or similar technology to cast whatever you want onto those displays, whether that's watching movies/TV or doing work from your computer.
It has windows.
Why does it look like it's from a video game?
I mean why do vehicles from video games looks like they do? Because they're cool. You can say a lot of things about Tesla but you can't call them conventional. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes not so much. Beauty is subjective.
It has windows.
On the sides, and they're like 1/3 of the total length of the vehicle, and on the ceiling. At least from the bit that I saw in the presentation. Buses today have much better visibility.
Because they’re cool
Nah, I think it's because it fits the art direction of the game. Cyberpunk has a certain feel, and GTA has another.
The robovan and the cybertruck don't match anything in the real world, or anything that came before. So it sticks out like an eyesore IMO.
But yeah, beauty is subjective, and I guess we'll see what it actually looks like if it ever hits the market.
Yeah, I mean it's like any art. I may not like it, but I appreciate diversity. In the case of the van, I actually like it. And where other autonomous companies are just taking existing vehicles and modifying them, Tesla represents a new way of thinking about autonomous transport from the ground up, much like they did with electric cars in general.
As long as it's not a water poodle...
When does it go into production? Whats the cost?
When? Never
Cost? N/A
No one gives a flying F what that asshole says.
Unfortunately a lot of people do. So many people care they made him the richest person in the world. I always hated obscenely rich people, but there's something special with Musk, he manages to add insult to injury.
look at the stock prices of Tesla Uber and Lyft today.
Haha, had no idea, I don't watch the stock market
That image is of the bus so it probably requires a 'fleet' type purchase alongside a maintenance contract
No 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.
I 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.
Of 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.
