Tesla's robotaxi fleet will be 'functionally ready' in 2020, Musk says - Roadshow:
Last year during its Autonomy Investor Day, Tesla laid out the broad strokes of its plan for a fleet of autonomous Teslas to operate as a "robotaxi" service. Of course, at the time, this seemed like a flight of fancy, given the fact that no car manufacturer is even close to full, Level 5 autonomy, by the standard SAE definition.
Fast-forward to now, and it still seems like a flight of fancy. Nevertheless, problems of practicality, technology, logistics and good sense aren't things that Elon Musk is worrying about, because he confirmed on Twitter on Sunday that the service would be functionally ready in 2020.
[...] Tesla currently offers Autopilot, which is a very competent suite of advanced driver assistance systems when appropriately used, but it's nowhere near capable of "full self-driving" as Tesla likes to call it. So, either the Big T has been sandbagging pretty hard, or Elon is full of what a certain former Vice President would call "malarkey."
Tesla didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Nuke on Wednesday April 15 2020, @12:29PM (3 children)
Brilliant timing Musk :
I think that sharing things with others, especially taxis where the air and seat are still warm from some stranger's lungs and arse, is going to be out of fashion for some time to come, even after the worse of COVID-19 is over. And where is he making these things? - is his factory not locked down like everywhere else?
Wait, he said "functionally ready". WTF does that mean? Probably that he has had a pot-induced dream about how this might work. I think that in his megalomania he has long lost the dividing line between fantasy and reality.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @01:55PM (1 child)
One would hope so. But things aren't always exactly the way you experience them. People don't generally take taxis because they like them, even Uber. And there certainly are people who have, and will, continue to need to use taxis because they can't afford their own transportation or it just doesn't make economic sense to do so.
Plus... people are stupidly forgetful of history. A year from now, two at the max, and everyone will have forgotten this outbreak and things will be back to normal. Those who think that this has changed anything long-term are woefully short-sighted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @04:33PM
Time to wake the fuck up. Peoepl have been living in close quarters for thousands of years. That's not changing. Grow an immune system, you fat pussy.
(Score: 1, Troll) by c0lo on Wednesday April 15 2020, @04:59PM
Umm... China seems to have worked relentlessly in immunizing their population in the fastest way possible (let them get the virus), so Giga Shanghai [wikipedia.org] may be ready to fly again (it delivered the first "Made in China" Telsa in Dec 2019 [twitter.com]).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford