• snooggums
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    882 months ago

    For true believers who hear Musk talk but have paid little or no attention to Tesla’s actual progress with autonomous driving technology, new car development, production ramping, or robotics, the event will have seemed like something of a success.

    Fucking lol

  • paw
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    312 months ago

    As far as I understood, the robot taxis may start production by 2026 or 2027. Shouldn’t we live all on Mars by then, according to Musk?

    /s

  • @hakunawazo
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    302 months ago

    Please state the nature of the transportational emergency.

    • Psaldorn
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      72 months ago

      If it didn’t have Robert Picardos voice, I do not want

      • @hakunawazo
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        That’s the reason why Elon wants to fly to Mars, to get a working Johnny cab instead of his crap cab. Now it makes all sense.

    • SharkAttak
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      62 months ago

      If you managed to shop Elon’s face on it, it would’ve been perfect. Cause let’s be honest, he’d totally do it.

  • @EnderMB
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    212 months ago

    The man can’t release an affordable electric car, despite it being on his roadmap for over a decade. Cunt isn’t releasing an affordable taxi lol

    • @[email protected]
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      Honestly, taxis don’t need to be cheap, they need to be reliable. I’m sure a taxi company would be happy to spend $100k if it meant minimal maintenance and far less staff, since it would pay for itself pretty quickly.

      The bigger question is, does it work? I’m guessing the answer to that is… no.

    • @tankplanker
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      12 months ago

      The more I think about the 2 seater taxi that they showed off at this event, the more I think that was originally one of the prototypes for the affordable car.

  • THX-1138
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    112 months ago

    Oh look con man trying to sell broken promises and cheap parlor tricks!

    • @DrCake
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      342 months ago

      Who would win. A cyberpunk looking “$30k” robotaxi or one speed bump/pot hole

      • TimeSquirrel
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        In the future, there are no potholes or imperfections of any kind. The ground and buildings are smooth, shiny, and constantly maintained to perfection somehow. Everything looks like a starship.

        • @SlopppyEngineer
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          62 months ago

          Camera pans down to the lower levels. Dark illuminated streets are visible, illuminated by sparse sunlight that manages to find cracks in the starship like road above. Flickering mismatched neon signs offer work, with long lines of broken humans waiting to find any job not taken over by AI and Optimus robots.

        • JohnEdwa
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          22 months ago

          Of course, they will all be made of perfectly smooth glass because they will be Solar FREAKING roadways! Everyone knows this, duhh.

        • @db2
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          22 months ago

          Everything’s chrome in the future!

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              I think the concept is cool, and it would probably make a good replacement for buses. In my area, we have on-demand vans run by the org that runs the buses, and they basically take people to/from any transit stop in the area. A robovan would replace those, and potentially replace buses as well, and they could run more frequently because you don’t need to have drivers.

              So I absolutely like the idea, but I still think it looks dumb. Why screens instead of windows? Why does it look like it’s from a video game?

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                  It has windows.

                  On the sides, and they’re like 1/3 of the total length of the vehicle, and on the ceiling. At least from the bit that I saw in the presentation. Buses today have much better visibility.

                  Because they’re cool

                  Nah, I think it’s because it fits the art direction of the game. Cyberpunk has a certain feel, and GTA has another.

                  The robovan and the cybertruck don’t match anything in the real world, or anything that came before. So it sticks out like an eyesore IMO.

                  But yeah, beauty is subjective, and I guess we’ll see what it actually looks like if it ever hits the market.

      • @marcos
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        22 months ago

        As long as it’s not a water poodle…

      • @_bcron_
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        32 months ago

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      • Kokesh
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        32 months ago

        No one gives a flying F what that asshole says.

        • Kwozyman
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          42 months ago

          Unfortunately a lot of people do. So many people care they made him the richest person in the world. I always hated obscenely rich people, but there’s something special with Musk, he manages to add insult to injury.

          • @Num10ck
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            42 months ago

            look at the stock prices of Tesla Uber and Lyft today.

            • Kwozyman
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              12 months ago

              Haha, had no idea, I don’t watch the stock market

  • @dirthawker0
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    32 months ago

    I took a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. It was easy to use and I felt very safe; generally they drive like your granny. My second ride we ended up briefly stopped behind someone trying to do a left turn in an unexpected spot, and the car wavered left and right for a moment as it tried to decide what to do, not unlike human drivers. Given Tesla’s not so great record on full self driving, I think given the choice I would probably stick with Waymo.

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    Of they end up releasing full self driving taxis before the Tesla’s sold with fsd are done I can imagine people that bought fsd will take issue.

    Also their stock price did not like the announcement.