#@robotaxi

[emarket-ireland]

Robotaxi Service Launches in 15 New Cities Worldwide

[victusinveritas]

The incredible auto-destructing automobile.

[dogtoenail]

>It's 3am in 2027 & you need a ride home from the club

>You use your phone to summon a Tesla Cybercab even though you think Musk is a twat

>Elons AI GROK begins its perusal of your online activities

>Robotaxi quickly slides up, its door silently swings up, you enter, door swings shut with a firm *click*

>Cybercab swiftly accelerates you away

>GROK has finished with your online activities analysis. Displeasure

>The dash screen suddenly lights up, displays & scrolls each & every post you ever disparaged Elon online. Ever. Anywhere. All the way back. Fullscreen.

>Now the dash screen displays a flashing GIF of Elon wagging his index finger, saying "shame shame shame. Shame on you hater." Elon is wearing his stupid huge black cowboy hat. Grinning. Idiot

>The Cybercab then whiplash accelerates to max. Disables windows & doors. Aircon stops. Auto initiates a Catastrophic Battery Overload. The Robotaxi heats up incredibly fast. Your seatbelt retracts violently, pinning you down.

>Dashboard Elon maniacally cackles and giggles onscreen while you fry. Your demise is dashcam livestreamed to Elons phone for his amusement. Elon gets quite erect while intently watching. Real hard

>Your cooking is over quickly. Livestream ends as dashcam melts. Elon etches yet another victory line on his bedroom wall, then he kinda jumps for some reason

>Tesla releases its standard 'Oopsie software glitch' statement in response. The world yawns

>A new Cybercab exits the factory and rolls out into the world

[impish-community-tumbler]

Elon musk unveiled the robotaxi

[robpegoraro]

Weekly output: Qualcomm's connected-home vision, BMW's Panoramic iDrive, Zoox's robotaxis, Delta at the Sphere, Better Offline, Red Bull Ford Powertrains

This would have been a long week with CES alone, but nine hours after my flight back from Vegas touched down at Dulles I was on my way into D.C.  for ShmooCon. How could I not? I’ve learned an enormous amount since I first covered that security conference in 2019–and this weekend’s edition was the con’s final go-round. 1/6/2025: Qualcomm’s Smart Home Vision Includes TVs That Read Your ‘Emotional…

[leeyukuan]

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[r0semultiverse]

I refuse to hop in a Zoox car in my entire life if I can avoid it. I refuse to hop into any self-driving robo taxi (or robotaxi) that uses AI to keep it’s passengers “safe.” If this is actually a service they are legally allowed to provide publicly, there’s about to be a whole bunch of new laws made in hopefully very little time! Now you know me, obviously fuck the law, many laws are unjust, but sometimes we need some regulations to keep up with the shit that rich Silicon Valley tech bros “put out” while claiming it’s allegedly their own work. These rich bastards are dangerous! Now I’ll pass along the questions that my partner & I jokingly pondered. If something happens that the AI & detection systems doesn’t know how to handle, will us as the passengers be held legally responsible say if a child gets punted into the air by the self driving car & we can’t do anything to stop it? What if we’re asleep assuming the car is safe & it runs over a legally endangered animal? What if we’re on our phones & these self-driving robot cars cleave someone in half? What if it crashes into someone’s private property? Are we held responsible in any of these cases or is the big rich guy’s company? If it’s anything like Tesla, you should get your kids or pets out of the road when you see a Zoox car coming, it could allegedly cause some mortalities. Two more things. What’s stopping someone from hijacking, hacking, or planting a virus on these self-driving taxi services? What if one of them gets hijacked to take someone to a human trafficker meetup spot? Will the company be held responsible at all? The gifs below pretty much summarizes my feelings.

[avandelay20]

The Musk-Trump lovefest is based on Musk hoping a Trump administration would reduce competition in the EV market.

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On its face, a second Trump presidency would be bad for companies [like Tesla] trying to move the country away from fossil fuels.

Musk opened the company's investor call by saying the wave of competition killing its profits and shrinking its market share would pass, but he didn't offer any reasoning.

When asked if he was worried about Trump repealing the IRA, Musk tipped his hand. He told investors that the move would be "devastating" for Tesla's competitors but less so for Tesla — in fact, "long term," he said, it would be good for Tesla.

In essence this was an admission that Musk's best hope is that Trump returns to the White House and dismantles the regulatory regime that has encouraged legacy automakers to enter the EV market. The best thing for Tesla is if US legacy automakers like GM and Ford sit on the sidelines.

Rather than worrying about society's move to an all-electric future, Musk is mainly concerned about maintaining Tesla's dominant position in the EV market. 

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While he's hoping to use Trump to kill of competition in the EV market, Musk is talking up a world of fantastic innovations that Tesla STILL hasn't built yet.

First, he said that Telsa is not a car company; it is an AI company.

Then he promised autonomous robotaxis by August, never mind that Musk has been promising the robotaxi for about a decade.

Then he said the company was making headway with a new humanoid robot called Optimus — never mind that when Tesla unveiled Optimus it was a person dancing in a robot costume, and Tesla still won't say which tasks it can do.

Then he glazed over the product the world really wants: a cheaper Tesla priced at about $25,000 to $30,000. Without providing more detail, he mentioned that those models would start rolling out of factories in the first half of 2025, never mind that Musk has been saying something like that since 2018.

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Pathetic.

[stickybowl]

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[nando161mando]

Tesla shares drop 6% in premarket after Cybercab robotaxi reveal fails to impress

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/11/tesla-tsla-stock-drops-in-premarket-after-cybercab-robotaxi-reveal.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.Message

[nosamyrag]

[freshthoughts2020]

[chronomally]

Reading a paper from 2023 that cites the success of Waymo self-driving cars and thinking about the article from 2024 that *I* cited about the two Waymo cars that hit the same truck minutes apart