A big difference between <a href="https://time.news/tesla-found-a-golden-key-in-china-autonomous-driving-story%eb%94%a5%eb%8b%a4%ec%9d%b4%eb%b8%8c/" title="Tesla found a golden key in China? Autonomous driving story[딥다이브]”>Waymo and Cruise‘s technology compared to Tesla is that Musk’s company does not use the more advanced Lidar technology. Which, according to many experts, is a mistake.
Chinese tech company Baidu is reportedly looking to expand its robot taxi division, Apollo Go, outside of China — its vehicles already operate in several cities in China.
The clock is ticking for Tesla if it doesn’t want to be left behind.
Handsome robots are also coming
In addition to the self-driving car, Tesla also presented the developments of the Tesla Bot. According to Musk, these humanoid robots can perform a variety of tasks, such as babysitting or mowing the lawn, going grocery shopping, “and being your friend who will serve you your drink, whatever you think of, he’ll do it.” The humanoid will cost about 20-30 thousand dollars. In the live stream of the We, Robot event above, we can see the good-looking robots serving drinks to attendees.
Later, they try to interact with people, wave, hang around with cups of ice in their hands, and dance with each other in a closed pavilion.
Musk loftily refers to Optimus robots as a “fundamental transformation of civilization” that would “create a future where there is no poverty.”
It can be a bus instead of a tunnel
No one knows what the future holds, and Musk likes to make big promises. Do we still remember the 16-passenger vehicles that would have operated under Chicago and Las Vegas? The multi-billionaire Boring Company wanted to build it and carry passengers in a tunnel that would cut the 18 miles between downtown Chicago and O’Hare Airport to 12 minutes. Below is the original sketch of the futuristic idea.
This has since been removed from the internet. Musk never created a futuristic version of The Loop for Chicago or any other city. Instead, he built a tunnel in Las Vegas with human drivers operating normal Teslas at low speeds – a big disappointment.
Source: Tesla
Instead, he now presented the bus above. Robovan is a bus-sized electric, autonomous vehicle that can transport 20 people or goods at a time.
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