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Elon Musk revealed a prototype of the long-awaited robotaxi at a Hollywood film studio - but investors aren’t wowed.
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“but investors aren’t wowed.”
It’s almost like there have been accidents with the slightly automated cars that are already on the road and there are no states that allow fully automated driving at their current capabilities.
There are states that are clearly willing to work with companies in a regulated and cautious manner but Tesla spent the last decade blowing smoke up everyone’s ass that FSD gives their car full taxi abilities “within the next year” so others have filled in with the actual tech and regulatory steps necessary
Waymo’s have taken over downtown SF.
To me, logically, a self driving car only has to be better than the average human driver. I acknowledge that emotionally it feels different when there is an accident involving self driving.
I remember when the Cyber Truck was revealed, including the whole window cracking thing there was a dip in Tesla stock, I was on Reddit the next day saying, yeah, it’s ugly as sin, but if I was the investing type, it would be a smart time to invest, because Tesla stock would bounce right back and the fanboys would drool over it.
I was right, but after all that’s happened since then, I wouldn’t be brave enough to try to call whether things will trend back upward this time.
I wouldn’t be brave enough to try to call whether things will trend back upward this time.
It all hinges on whether they can ultimately deliver on unsupervised FSD in the next couple years. Supervised FSD is a pretty good Level 3 system, but if they can’t progress to a Level 4 system, robotaxi is irrelevant.
Two door taxi? Fucking seriously?
…because the taxis rely on full self-driving, which has been a couple of years away for the entire span of Tesla’s existence.
Capabilities aside, this simply won’t happen without legislative change - Tesla won’t wear the consequences of their cars killing people.
They’re also a dumb design for a taxi
Can’t believe investors weren’t screaming “What is happening right now?!” and “He just did that!”
