Tesla likes to placed on a present, and Thursday’s Robotaxi reveal may 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 in the present day.
Tesla will livestream the “We, Robotic” occasion on X, which Elon Musk owns. The automaker normally streams occasions dwell on its YouTube web page however hasn’t but mentioned if it can achieve this for the Robotaxi reveal. Nonetheless, that could be a sensible possibility, contemplating the technical points X’s livestreams have confronted. And you may observe together with our personal dwell weblog of the occasion right here.
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 on account of “an vital design change to the entrance.”
The Robotaxi 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 mentioned 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 moderately openly named Full Self-Driving (FSD), despite the fact that it’s not absolutely self-driving and requires a human driver to concentrate and take over if wanted — a reality that’s borne out repeatedly in drive-along movies that followers usually put up on social media.
When Musk first floated the concept of robotaxis in 2019, the concept was that some present Teslas would be capable to act as autonomous robotaxis with solely software program updates, probably unlocking a possibility for Tesla house owners to earn a living from their automobiles when not driving them. That plan, which was speculated to lead to hundreds of thousands of robotaxis on the street by 2020, has by no means been carried out. On the time, Musk mentioned that in locations the place there aren’t sufficient folks 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 in regards to the autonomous expertise and extra in regards to the car itself. Musk has mentioned he desires to construct a robotaxi and not using a steering wheel or pedals, and photographs of the car that have 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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