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Elon Musk shows off two-seat robotaxi

arstechnica.com 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.

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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.
  
  As long as it's not a water poodle...
- When does it go into production? Whats the cost?
  
  When? Never
  
  Cost? N/A
  
  That image is of the bus so it probably requires a 'fleet' type purchase alongside a maintenance contract
  
  No one gives a flying F what that asshole says.
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.

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