by San Francisco (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s vision on the future of Tesla is planned for a public test on Sunday, when a dozen self -driving cars in Austin, Texas start a limited, paid robotaxi service.
Although Tesla releases Tesla with a webcast -product launch event that is helped by Musk, fans on the internet will search for videos and reports of the Coterie of invited riders who can greet the small stable of model Y SUVs for travel within a limited part of the city, accompanied in the forest passenger -a -seater. The driver’s seat is empty.
“Wow. We are going to ride without a driver in Teslas for a few days. On public roads,” Omar Qazi, an X.com user with 635.200 followers who often write about Tesla with the help of handle @Wholemarsblog and receive an invition.
The service in Austin will also have other restrictions. Tesla is planning to avoid bad weather, difficult intersections and does not take anyone younger than 18 years old. Musk has said he is ready to postpone the start to postpone security reasons if necessary.
Tesla is worth more than most of the greatest rivals together, and Musk has said that this is supported by the future capacity of the company to create robotaxis and humanoid robots. For years he promised that self -driving cars were just around the corner.
Commercializing autonomous vehicles has been risky and expensive. The cruise of GM was closed after a fatal accident and supervisors look closely at Tesla and his rivals, Alphabet’s Waymo, who runs a paid Robotaxi service in various American cities and Amazon’s ZOX.
Tesla is also the standard practice of the young industry to rely on multiple technologies to read the way, with only cameras. That, says Musk, will be safe and much cheaper than Lidar and Radar systems that are added by rivals. Nevertheless, Musk says that he is “super paranoid about safety” with the rollout.
“Until now, this launch lags considerably behind the promise of the company and what competitors have already delivered,” said the most important analyst Paul Miller of technology researcher Forester.
Fans have welcomed the caution and the long -awaited arrival. Qazi said on X, Tesla launched ‘extremely careful, which is good’.
(Reporting by ABHirup Roy in San Francisco; Edit by Peter Henderson)
