Tesla has yet to start testing its robotaxi service without driver weeks before launch
For months now, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have been hyping the launch of “Tesla Robotaxi”, a Uber-like ride-hailing service powered by autonomous Tesla vehicles, starting with a launch in Austin, Texas in June.
We have extensively reported that#this launch is disappointing compared to what Tesla promised for years: that all its consumer vehicles built since 2016 are capable of self-driving.
Instead, Tesla plans to build an internal fleet of “10-20” Model Ys and have them offer ride-hailing services in a geo-fenced area around Austin, Texas, helped by human teleoperations. This is very similar to what Waymo has been offering in other cities for years, specifically in Austin, for months now.
Even with the significant downgrade in self-driving capabilities promised with this project, there are many doubts about Tesla’s ability to achieve the lesser goal.
Tesla has yet to start testing its robotaxi service without driver weeks before launch
For months now, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have been hyping the launch of “Tesla Robotaxi”, a Uber-like ride-hailing service powered by autonomous Tesla vehicles, starting with a launch in Austin, Texas in June.
We have extensively reported that#this launch is disappointing compared to what Tesla promised for years: that all its consumer vehicles built since 2016 are capable of self-driving.
Instead, Tesla plans to build an internal fleet of “10-20” Model Ys and have them offer ride-hailing services in a geo-fenced area around Austin, Texas, helped by human teleoperations. This is very similar to what Waymo has been offering in other cities for years, specifically in Austin, for months now.
Even with the significant downgrade in self-driving capabilities promised with this project, there are many doubts about Tesla’s ability to achieve the lesser goal.
Queue a rise in Tesla's stock price.
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Overpromising and under delivering is usually a recipe for failure on the stock market unless that company is Tesla where stock prices somehow manage to rise with failure.
A former FBI agent has alleged that Russia’s GRU intelligence agency targeted tech billionaire Elon Musk for exploitation and offered him direct contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Former FBI Counterintelligence Special Agent Jonathan Buma stated that Russian intelligence had special operations to influence Silicon Valley tech CEOs such as Musk and venture capitalist Peter Thiel that included gathering damning information that could later be used as blackmail.
(side note to article image: no blackmail was involved in this, it was all personal choice)
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“Musk’s susceptibility to promiscuous women and drug use, particularly ketamine… were seen by Russian intelligence as an opportunity for an agent to exploit,” said the former FBI Special Agent in a recently released documentary by the German Television Broadcaster ZDF.
seen several VW electric vans on the roads in Vancouver and I have to say they look great, I suspect in the end it will be the incredibly boring look of Tesla's that will kill them as nicer looking cars hit the market
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seen several VW electric vans on the roads in Vancouver and I have to say they look great, I suspect in the end it will be the incredibly boring look of Tesla's that will kill them as nicer looking cars hit the market
I am kind of shocked. There’s virtually no reason why you can’t have nice, stylish EVs now. It not’s like they have to look boring. Stick the batteries and electric motors in the shell of a Porsche 911 or whatever.
I am kind of shocked. There’s virtually no reason why you can’t have nice, stylish EVs now. It not’s like they have to look boring. Stick the batteries and electric motors in the shell of a Porsche 911 or whatever.
I'm not, Musk isn't a car guy, he was only ever concerned about the tech.
He hired the guy that designed Mazda's, Mazda's are perfectly nice looking cars for 25,000 or so but not exactly inspiring
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FSD is almost ready… just don’t drive anywhere with shadows.
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That's so weird. Maybe it was the sign combined with the shadow that made it appear as a left bend? Not sure why it decided to do that but pretty scary for people that use this technology daily. I'm still not clear how Tesla has avoided lawsuits for FSD considering the amount of money people have paid for tech that's still underbaked.
What you are missing is that pickup truck actually had a class M planet in the box. You can tell by the shape of the arch the car took that it was a gravity driven course change.
I'm not, Musk isn't a car guy, he was only ever concerned about the tech.
He hired the guy that designed Mazda's, Mazda's are perfectly nice looking cars for 25,000 or so but not exactly inspiring
Who did he hire to design the Cybertruck? Homer Simpson?
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Isaacson's description of the moment seems to suggest that that's just what happened. He writes in his biography of Musk that "About 6 years ago, he [Musk] is sitting there with [chief designer] Franz von Holzhausen and they're looking at a Ford truck. Musk says these things are boring. He doesn't like to be bored. He puts up things from movies, from sci-fi, from video games, and everybody is pushing back on him at this meeting. He finally says 'stop it, we're going to do it. We're going to make it edgy'."
I'm not, Musk isn't a car guy, he was only ever concerned about the tech.
He hired the guy that designed Mazda's, Mazda's are perfectly nice looking cars for 25,000 or so but not exactly inspiring
Mazda's what?
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