A number of rumors about Tesla’s Robotaxi/Cybercab are rising forward of the occasion tomorrow.
They’re speaking about butterfly doorways, two seats, a robovan, and extra.
Tesla is ready to carry its ‘We, Robotic’ occasion tomorrow night in Los Angeles.
The automaker is now advertising the occasion as the disclosing of “the way forward for autonomy,” nevertheless it was beforehand marketed as its ‘robotaxi’, which can be generally referred to as ‘Cybercab’.
With a bit greater than 24 hours earlier than the disclosing, extra rumors about what Tesla is planning for the occasion is rising.
Bloomberg experiences that the brand new “robotaxi” car goes to characteristic two seats with butterfly wing doorways:
Tesla has saved the ultimate design of the robotaxi underneath wraps, however the car is predicted to have two entrance seats and two doorways that open upward like butterfly wings, in accordance with folks conversant in the matter.
This could be consistent with the picture of what was described as an “early robtoaxi prototype” that was revealed in Walter Issacson’s biography of Elon Musk.
As a result of Isaacson seemingly needed to get the image authorized, it wasn’t clear how near the manufacturing model this “early prototype” seen final yr was.
The report additionally mentions a attainable Tesla Robovan to be unveiled on the occasion – although it doesn’t appear to be primarily based on robust data:
There’s an opportunity Tesla additionally reveals one other new automobile. Some buyers imagine that Musk will showcase some sort of robovan that may carry a dozen folks or extra, or be used as an autonomous supply car.
Musk can be anticipated to speak about integrating its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) know-how in its Tesla Semi electrical vans:
The CEO can be anticipated to speak about Tesla’s plans to develop FSD for its Semi truck, and the way he sees the know-how getting used to haul cargo, two folks acquainted mentioned. Nonetheless, there received’t be any demos of the Semi utilizing FSD on the occasion, the folks mentioned, asking to not be recognized as a result of they weren’t approved to talk.
Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robotic can be anticipated to be a part of the occasion.
Electrek’s Take
No huge shock right here. A van could be a great shock, particularly since Tesla is bound to get some criticism for the Robotaxi solely being a two-seater, however Tesla has been promising an electrical van for years.
I feel that will be extra impactful than one that will depend on Tesla’s fixing self-driving first.
That’s the hill this complete occasion goes to die on.
It wants to indicate Tesla not solely significant progress towards self-driving but in addition a transparent path to attaining it within the brief time period.
The automaker has already misplaced a ton of credibility with its (Supervised) FSD program, which was presupposed to turn into unsupervised by the tip of yearly for the final 5 years, in accordance with Elon Musk.
Now, Tesla plans to launch autos “devoted to self-driving”, seemingly with out pedals or a steering wheel, although it hasn’t delivered on its self-driving guarantees on hundreds of thousands of current autos.
It’s simply not a great look.
So I feel, the sensible cash goes to be how Tesla plans to ship self-driving capabilities to those new autos and the way that will have an effect on its current fleet.
