Elon Musk Reveals When Tesla Will Release Its First Robotaxi
Tesla’s CEO says the fully autonomous Tesla taxi is arriving soon — in 122 days.
Key Takeaways
- Elon Musk says that the Tesla robotaxi will be unveiled on August 8.
- Safety concerns about autonomous taxis from Cruise and Waymo have been surfacing.
Amid news of Tesla’s first year-over-year sales decline since 2020, the electric car company is setting the scene for a unique product launch.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the company will unveil its first robotaxi on August 8. However, the unveiling date does not mean that’s when deliveries will begin — the first deliveries of another Tesla product, the Cybertruck, arrived after its unveiling.
Tesla’s first autonomous taxi will join a market that already features offerings from competitors such as , an independent company that as Google’s self-driving car project, and , General Motors’ company.
Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Musk, who X and is the on the platform, shared the news with followers.
Reuters on Friday that Tesla had decided to shift its strategy away from a $25,000 entry-level electric car and towards self-driving cars instead, a report that Musk disputed in a “Reuters is lying (again)” on X. Musk did not clarify which part of the article was inaccurate.
Related: Tesla Sales, Deliveries Drop for First Time Since 2020
A Reuters from Saturday showed that robotaxis could be riskier, and more complex, to create. A robotaxi from G.M.’s Cruise was involved in an accident in October, resulting in of the company and a of the company’s driverless robotaxis. Cruise was preparing to resume operations as of February, according to .
In , a driverless Waymo car hit a cyclist in San Francisco.
“We are deeply concerned that more people will be killed, more first responders , more sudden stops will happen,” Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, told the . “We are not against autonomous vehicles. We are concerned about the unsafe deployment and a rush to the market at the expense of the traveling public.”
Tesla last released a in 2019 with the .
Key Takeaways
- Elon Musk says that the Tesla robotaxi will be unveiled on August 8.
- Safety concerns about autonomous taxis from Cruise and Waymo have been surfacing.
Amid news of Tesla’s first year-over-year sales decline since 2020, the electric car company is setting the scene for a unique product launch.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the company will unveil its first robotaxi on August 8. However, the unveiling date does not mean that’s when deliveries will begin — the first deliveries of another Tesla product, the Cybertruck, arrived after its unveiling.
Tesla’s first autonomous taxi will join a market that already features offerings from competitors such as , an independent company that as Google’s self-driving car project, and , General Motors’ company.
