“Cybercab” Robotaxi is set for production in 2026, priced under $30,000
Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s Robotaxi, a futuristic two-door vehicle with gull-wing doors and no steering wheel or pedals, alongside announcements for a larger Robovan and updates on the Optimus humanoid robot. The taxi is smaller than currently available Model 3 Teslas and has a extra big trunk for luggage. The larger self-driving Robovan is reportedly capable of carrying up to 20 people. All will feature a single central screen like the Model 3, but with a stripped-down UI displaying key information such as ETA and fare price.
Tesla’s Robotaxi event, “We, Robot,” was live-streamed from Warner Bros. Discovery Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Invites were sent to winners of a shareholder raffle.
“We think this [robotaxi fleet] is still several years away and numerous technological hurdles, safety tests, and regulatory approvals are still standing in the way,” Garrett Nelson of CFRA told Yahoo Finance.
SEE ALSO: Ford enlists MIT, Stanford to to drive automated cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKV4BnzpnF0 10 years ago : The car maker announced Wednesday that it hopes that researchers at MIT can come up with advanced algorithms to help the vehicle learn to predict where other vehicles and pedestrians could be in the future.
SEE ALSO: MIT Human-Centered Autonomous Vehicle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoC8oH0CLGc 6 years ago : Introducing our shared autonomy research vehicle with a demo of voice-based transfer of control based on whether the driver is paying attention to the road and on risk factors detected in the external environment. Our work aims to reimagine the self-driving car as a shared autonomy system built around the human being. See paper describing key concepts below. Thank you to Veoneer for their support of our research.
