Driverless Robotaxi and Robovan are Tesla’s autonomous vision
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- Oct 11, 2024
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⺠Tesla Robotaxi and Robovan revealed
⺠Fully autonomous EVs for the future
⺠Robotaxi due from 2027
Tesla has revealed its long-teased Robotaxi and Robovan at a special event. The new vehicles are Teslaâs next steps in terms of autonomy and self-driving technology.
âYou see a lot of sci-fi movies where the future is dark and dismal, itâs not a future you want to be in,â says Elon Musk during the streamed We, Robot event at a Warner Bros. studio. âWe want a fun, exciting future.
The new Robotaxi is a two-door, butterfly-doored coupe with enormous wheels and a clean design. Inside there is no steering wheel â just seats and a typically enormous screen.
Thatâs how far Tesla is pushing its âfull self-drivingâ technology â itâs developing a vehicle without any conventional driver controls. The first step is ensuring its Model 3 and Model Y are approved for âunsupervisedâ self-driving in 2025, before the Robotaxi arrives in 2027. And, like Teslaâs other models, the Robotaxi and Robovan do without lidar, instead relying on AI and cameras to drive autonomously.
âWhen we think of transport today, thereâs a lot of pain that we take on that we think is normal,â he adds, âlike having to drive around LA in three hours of traffic. But thereâs also the fact that cars cost too much and not used that much â on average around 10 hours out of 168 hours per week. But if they were autonomous, they could be used five times more, maybe even 10 times more.â
The Robotaxi is also destined to have wireless charging; âRobotaxi has no plug, it just drives over an inductive charger.â
On top of that, the Robovan is designed to be more of a bus and goods transport vehicle. âWeâre going to make this, and itâll look like that,â says Musk.
Musk says that the âcost of autonomous transport will be so low that you can think of it like individualised mass transit,â adding that he wants to âchange the look of roadsâ and reduce the amount of parking lots in the UK.
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