tesla will present on Thursday his robotaxiin the midst of expectation and mystery for a launch that will compete with similar vehicles from other brands already in circulation in USA for years.
Elon Musk, number one of the electric vehicle manufacturer, announced since April the presentation that had been scheduled for August 8 but was finally scheduled for October 10.
Musk insists that the Tesla robotaxi It will be the best autonomous vehicle on the market although it will not be the first.
“I requested a major design change to the front” and the additional time will allow other small modifications to be submitted, he explained in mid-July.
“Once we demonstrate that something is sufficiently safe or significantly safer than human, we will see that regulators will support the deployment of this initiative,” he added then.
Tesla will launch its robotaxi and Elon Musk insists it will be “the best on the market”:
Musk has a history of strong predictions about autonomous vehicles that he believes will one day replace conventional cars.
On September 25, he presented the slogan of the launch event: “We, Robot”, in reference to the science fiction work “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov published in 1950 and adapted to film in 2004. An image accompanies the message with a comment: “It will be in the history books.”
Little is known about the rest, except for the place of presentation: the studies Warner in Los Angeleswhich will allow demonstrations on streets used for films.
How much will Tesla’s robotaxi cost?
The price of the product has not been officially announced. robotaxi of teslabut it is estimated that it could be similar to that of the Cybertruck, which sells for approximately 80,000 dollars (73,000 euros) or more.
Some observers saw trucks tesla and took images of a vehicle packed in a bright yellow wrapper, which could be the camouflage of the robotaxi.
The vehicle will be called Cybercab (cyber taxi in Spanish), and some believe that it will be inspired by the silhouette of the sedan model 3 of teslareleased in 2017. But for others, it will look like the Cybertruck pick-up, with straight and hard lines, which began to be sold in 2023 several years late. Many expect it to be a fusion of both designs. But the road is long before they come into operation.
“We think that the deployment of robotaxi of tesla on a large scale is unlikely in the coming years,” UBS analysts highlight.
“Elon Musk accumulates a large ‘debt’ due to its exaggeration about the availability of different health products tesla in the market, and we think that for the robotaxi it will not be different,” he summarized Garrett Nelson of CFRA Research.
The analysts of wedbush They expect Musk&Co to present ‘revolutionary’ autonomous technologies” on Thursday, noting that few presentations are as anticipated as this one.
Source: Ambito
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