Tesla, Bay Area and Robotaxi
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The company said its timeline for Robotaxi launch had been moved up and the service could launch as soon as Friday.
Waymo’s robotaxis are fully driverless and expanding fast, while Tesla’s service is still limited and invite-only. The gap is bigger than you think.
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Uber Just Made a Huge Investment in Its Robotaxi Future. Here's What Investors Need to Know.
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Investor's Business Daily on MSNDow Jones Futures: Meta, Amazon, Fed, Trump Tariffs Ahead; Tesla 'Robotaxi' Set To Launch In San FranciscoMeta, Amazon and Microsoft lead an earnings wave, along with a Fed meeting and Trump tariff deadline. Tesla "robotaxis" are about to hit San Francisco, with a caveat.
On Monday, Tesla posted a picture of the robotaxi's new coverage area within Austin, focusing mainly on moving north up I-35 and a wider swath of South Austin below Lady Bird Lake. And it looks like a penis. "Harder, better, faster, stronger," the company's official robotaxi account posted on X, alongside a photo of the map.
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Futurism on MSNTesla Rolling Out Robotaxis With Human Drivers in the Driver's Seat, Defeating the Purpose of a RobotaxiTesla is looking to roll out a robotaxi service in the Bay Area, but with human operators in the driver's seat.
I watched over two hours of footage of Tesla's robotaxi service: I saw an Uber-like app experience, the in-car interface, and miles of Austin streets.
An upside-down Tesla “T”? An upraised middle finger? Something else? The geofenced boundaries of the EV maker’s new Austin service area are drawing laughs and criticism.
For comparison, Alphabet's Waymo covers a roughly equal, but far less penile-shaped area of Austin. Musk recently announced the Robotaxi project's expansion in Austin, and added that the Robotaxi service may expand to the Bay Area "in a month or two." We shudder to think which shape the Robotaxi geofenced area may take over there.
Elon Musk had more bold projections for Tesla's robotaxi. But investors didn't get much insight on the Austin launch during Wednesday's earnings call.
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The Tesla CEO said the company expects to expand their autonomous driver service to include customer-owned cars.