Tesla likes to placed on a present, and Thursday’s Robotaxi reveal would possibly simply be the flashiest of all of them.
The electrical car maker is slated to unveil its much-hyped Robotaxi car at Warner Bros. Discovery’s film studio in Burbank, California. For these attending, doorways will open at 5 p.m. PT, with remarks starting at 7 p.m. PT.
Tesla will livestream the “We, Robotic” occasion on X, which Elon Musk owns. The automaker often streams occasions reside on its YouTube web page, however hasn’t but stated if it should achieve this for the Robotaxi reveal. Nevertheless, that is likely to be a wise possibility contemplating the technical points X’s reside streams have confronted.
Musk first teased the Robotaxi occasion in April, setting a date of August 8 for a reveal — a date that Tesla needed to push again resulting from “an vital design change to the entrance.”
The Robotaxi reveal seems to have come on the expense of a next-generation $25,000 EV that Musk additionally promised. Just a few weeks after Musk introduced the Robotaxi occasion, he slashed greater than 10% of Tesla’s workforce and stated the automaker was going “balls to the wall for autonomy.”
Musk has promised autonomous capabilities in Tesla automobiles for years. The corporate’s superior driver-assistance system is slightly overtly named Full Self-Driving (FSD), even supposing it’s not totally self-driving and requires a human driver to concentrate and take over if wanted — a reality that’s borne out many times in drive-along movies that followers repeatedly put up on social media.
When Musk first floated the thought of robotaxis in 2019, the thought was that some current Teslas would have the ability to act as autonomous robotaxis with solely software program updates, probably unlocking a chance for Tesla homeowners to earn a living from their automobiles when not driving them. That plan, which was presupposed to lead to hundreds of thousands of robotaxis on the street by 2020, has by no means been carried out. On the time, Musk stated that in locations the place there aren’t sufficient folks to share their automobiles, Tesla would supply a devoted fleet of robotaxis.
We count on this reveal — which we remind you is at a Hollywood studio — to be much less concerning the autonomous expertise and extra concerning the car itself. Musk has stated he needs to construct a robotaxi and not using a steering wheel or pedals, and photos of the car that had been included in Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography, which was revealed in 2023, reveal a Cybertruck-inspired, two-door, two-seater compact car.
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