Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his latest
Elon Musk said Austin residents will be able to pay for a fully autonomous Tesla robotaxi ride in June, with an expansion to more US cities planned.
The news comes from CEO Elon Musk, who finally admitted it during Wednesday's Tesla earnings call (via Electrek ). "The truth is that we will need to replace all HW3 computers in vehicles where FSD was purchased," said Musk after Tesla's head of FSD, Ashok Elluswamy, said the company is "not giving up on it."
As the Lucid Gravity EV gets Supercharger access this week, CEO Peter Rawlinson (a former Tesla exec) gives us the rundown on the origins of the Model S and the future of EV charging.
During Tesla's earnings call, Elon Musk mentioned Superman, telescopes, Hollywood, and inventors shouting "Eureka!"
Elon Musk finally admits that Tesla will have to replace its HW3 self-driving computers. He said it would be difficult, but Tesla would do it. However, no concrete plan has been shared. For the better part of the year, we have been reporting that Tesla can’t achieve its promise of “full self-driving” on HW3, and it needs to come clean about it.
Tesla shares rose about 3% before the bell on Thursday as plans to roll out cheaper electric vehicles and paid autonomous car services by the automaker that missed Wall expectations for fourth quarter lifted investor sentiment.
Tesla will launch an “unsupervised, no one in the car” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. “We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything’s okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those in the car as a top priority,” Musk said.
Elon Musk promised Tesla’s car sales would jump 20% this year at a minimum, but his own company doesn’t even seem to believe that.
The claim of the vehicles driving around, carrying passengers with no driver behind the wheel by June borders on ridiculous. The numbers just don't back it up
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday his company will launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas using its own fleet vehicles this coming