Despite a record of unmet promises surrounding the now inexistent “robotaxi” services, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once more sparked pleasure and suspicion with his most recent announcement of an impending Tesla Robotaxi unveiling on August 8, 2024.
Gizmodo reports that in a message on Friday, Elon Musk declared,” Tesla Robotaxi announce on 8/8″, without providing any additional information. This statement comes in the wake of a Reuters record earlier in the day that claimed Tesla was switching from developing programs for a low-cost electric vehicle to concentrating on the creation of a robot axi. Musk disputed the Reuters report‘s reliability, blaming the fact that the news channel had inaccurate information.
Tesla Robotaxi will be unveiled on October 8th.
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ) April 5, 2024
Musk has made strong statements about the upcoming launch of Tesla Robotaxis before. In April 2020, he tweeted,” Functionality still looking great for this year. The phrase” Regulatory approval is the great unknown” implies that the only problem to the development of robots was regulatory approval. But, more than four years later, Tesla has yet to give on this claim.
Elon Musk and , Xi Jinping ( Elon Musk/Twitter )
According to Reuters, Tesla’s determination to pivot away from a$ 25, 000 car to an automatic vehicle services presents significant challenges. The information agency cited private sources who revealed that the program was revealed to numerous people at a conference in late February, with one resource quoting Musk’s request to “go all in on robotaxi.”
The Reuters report also highlighted the fierce competition Tesla faces from Chinese electric car manufacturers, who are flooded the market with cars priced as low as$ 10,000. A challenging executive challenge that comes with a lot of regulatory risks is developing a fully automatic robotaxi service.
Experts in the field and the general public are skeptical about Musk’s track record of overpromising and underdelivering on technological developments, especially the robotaxis service that he announced five years ago. In the summer of 2021, Musk unveiled Tesla’s humanoid machine, Optimus, which turned out to be a people dressed in a machine mask. Tesla has since created an exact robot, but it still falls behind its market players in the field of robotics.
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For Breitbart News, Lucas Nolan is a reporter covering problems involving free conversation and website repression.
