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 as we speak.
Tesla will livestream the “We, Robot” occasion on X, which Elon Musk owns, and on the automaker’s often streams occasions stay on its YouTube web page. The YouTube backup is a great choice, contemplating the technical points X’s livestreams have confronted. And you possibly can comply with together with our personal stay weblog of the occasion right here.
Musk first teased the Robotaxi occasion in April, setting a date of August eight for a reveal — a date that Tesla needed to push again because of “an important design change to the front.”
The Robotaxi seems to have come on the expense of a next-generation $25,000 EV that Musk additionally promised. A couple of weeks after Musk introduced the Robotaxi occasion, he slashed greater than 10% of Tesla’s workforce and mentioned the automaker was going “balls to the wall for autonomy.”
Musk has promised autonomous capabilities in Tesla automobiles for years. The firm’s superior driver-assistance system is somewhat overtly named Full Self-Driving (FSD), regardless that it’s not absolutely self-driving and requires a human driver to concentrate and take over if wanted — a truth that’s borne out time and again in drive-along movies that followers frequently 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, doubtlessly unlocking a possibility for Tesla house owners to generate income from their automobiles when not driving them. That plan, which was presupposed to lead to thousands and thousands of robotaxis on the highway by 2020, has by no means been carried out. At the time, Musk mentioned that in locations the place there aren’t sufficient individuals to share their automobiles, Tesla would offer 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 know-how and extra concerning the car itself. Musk has mentioned he desires to construct a robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and pictures 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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