2024-10-11 14:20:00
Elon Musk presented the Tesla robotaxia car capable of driving itself which, according to him, will arrive on the market in 2027about a decade after the billionaire promised an autonomous vehicle for the first time.
The event, from the name “We, robots”, in a play on Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction work “I, Robot,” took place at the Warner Brothers studios near Los Angeles.
Him CEO of Tesla he assured him Your car without a steering wheel or pedals will cost less than $30,000, It will charge wirelessly with inductive technology and will be “10 to 20 times safer” than human-driven cars.
Musk is a master entertainer and the richest man on the planet. Its buzz-creating abilities contributed to the conversion Tesla is the largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the world and cause the company’s stock price to skyrocket.
“In an autonomous world, the car is like a small living room”he explained to his audience.
“They are sitting in a small comfortable room and they can do whatever they want while they are in this small comfortable room, and when they leave, they will have arrived at their destination,” he added.
However, he provided few technical details about the vehicle doors that open upwards and are reminiscent of the Delorean from the “Back to the Future” films.
He assured it Tesla already has 50 units and hopes to start next year “completely autonomous and unsupervised” driving. in Texas and California with existing models, before moving on to produce what he called the “cybertaxi.”
““I tend to be a little optimistic about deadlines,” recognized, while ensuring it They will begin production “before 2027”.
“Robovan” and the Optimus robot
The presentation, which started almost an hour late, was full of futuristic images, but it wasn’t very specific.
Even moss He showed off a large passenger vehicle that he called “Robovan.”
This truck, which looks like a huge moving toaster, It has no steering wheel, pedals or driver.
According to him, It has a capacity of 20 people or it can be transformed to transport goods. But he did not provide details on production times.
Musk also presented some dancing humanoid robots called Optimus which, as he said, one day they will be able to do household chores and keep company.
“I think it will be the greatest product in history,” he said, adding that The robot would sell, according to his estimate, between $20,000 and $30,000. He also gave no deadlines and it wasn’t clear in the presentation what exactly the robot’s capabilities were He was seen walking through the audience and serving drinks.
Although he was once a favorite of the left for his environmentalist measures to electrify transportation, Musk has become increasingly controversial in recent years.
Since he bought Twitter, renamed X, he has cut the platform’s staff, which has led many users and advertisers to abandon that social network.
And currently spends time and money promoting Republican Donald Trump, echoing the billionaire and presidential candidate’s controversial statements about immigrants. Musk also made an exuberant appearance at a Trump rally last weekend.
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Tesla followers and detractors have been waiting for the presentation of the robotaxi for a long time.
In 2016, Musk declared that a fully automated car would be a reality in the next two years and a year after that For 2019, he envisioned a vehicle so safe that the user could even sleep while riding in it.
But many automakers, who have been using Autopilot programs for a few years, have discovered this autonomous driving is complex.
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While many vehicles today are equipped with limited automation, which in theory allows the driver to hand over some functions to a computer, the person behind the wheel You need to pay attention and react if the vehicle does something unexpected.
Unlike people, computers aren’t that good at reacting to unpredictable events or situations they’ve never encountered before, which is why self-driving vehicles have a history of doing things a human would never do.
Anyway, The driver is legally responsible for what the car does.
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