by pcbro141 on 10/11/24, 3:07 AM
Waymo already beat Tesla to Full Self Driving. I use Waymo frequently in SF and it's great. It makes this Tesla robotaxi with an undefined release date not very interesting.
by Ankaios on 10/11/24, 3:06 AM
They're currently discussing how difficult it was to design a credit card reader for the Robotaxi that would reliably fail whenever it detects cash in the passenger's wallet.
by Animats on 10/11/24, 3:03 AM
The event has started. They have some Teslas driving slowly around the Warner Brothers lot with no people in them. Musk is talking.
The closed captions are running ahead of the talking.
by muglug on 10/11/24, 3:11 AM
He talks about the tyranny of parking lots, but this is a solved problem! The whole presentation is an exercise in steadfastly not talking about public transportation.
by Teknomancer on 10/11/24, 3:29 AM
After seeing the Chinese company Unitree tease this
https://youtu.be/GzX1qOIO1bE, Optimus seems very unarticulated and clunky. And Unitree claim it would be a bit more than half the projected cost of the Tesla offering.
Time will tell.
My bets right now are not on Elon leading a Tesla supremacy in anything in the future—and that is unfortunate. I wish an American company could pull it off.
by cs702 on 10/11/24, 2:51 AM
I can only imagine the kind of last-minute drama the Robotaxi team is going through, behind the scenes.
Hopefully they will pull through and get started soon enough.
by noncoml on 10/11/24, 3:04 AM
My simple mind can't understand what's the advantage of having a two seater vs four or five seater. Any insights?
by Animats on 10/11/24, 3:15 AM
Walking humanoid robots.
Also videos of more humanoid robots that move better than the ones shown live.
by Animats on 10/11/24, 3:23 AM
Presentation is over. They're having a party.
Overall, this demo looks a lot like the self driving vehicles at Guangzhou Bio Island. They have slow self-driving buses and taxis in a somewhat controlled environment.[1] That sort of thing has been working for about five years now.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3sCm1GGC5I
by Animats on 10/11/24, 3:11 AM
Inductive charging. Robotaxi does not need to plug in.
Pictures of robotic car interior cleaning, but no mention of that.
by porphyra on 10/11/24, 3:06 AM
by reallymental on 10/11/24, 3:08 AM
What a bizzare world we live in. He's promising some version of the thing he did in 2016 [0], he's promising a lower than $30k price point, also the famous "unsupervised full self driving" (how many more adjectives does one need for autonomous vehicles?).
Perhaps he's made another deal with the board for a better $100B pay package so he can lie to the shareholders (who'll eat it up) and he'll dump subpar products onto these people who are heralding him as another "genius" or whatever.
He's just another run-of-the-mill, out of touch conman at this point.
He was great, but he didn't hold onto his own greatness.
edit: Something about a park ride?! ... Jesus.
[0] - https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-timeline-1851664786#....
by Animats on 10/11/24, 3:06 AM
Teslas "fully autonomous in Texas and California next year" using Model 3 and Model Y.
Cybercab before 2027.
by oxqbldpxo on 10/11/24, 2:54 AM
Jump Elon jump!!!
by Animats on 10/11/24, 3:12 AM
There's a 20 person bus version.
by Animats on 10/11/24, 3:04 AM
"We expect the cost to be below $30,000."
by zzleeper on 10/11/24, 2:56 AM
Lol those cyclists surely looked terrified