Tesla’s Robotaxi’s launch here: What can be expected star-news.press/wp

After years of delay and bold promises, Tesla is preparing to launch the first Robotaxi service on June 22 in Austin, Texas – although the offer will be More limited and cautious From CEO Elon Musk once imagined.

The experimental launch is less than a truly independent time and more than a tightly controlled test with serious investor effects. According to what was reported, the operating program will include 10 to 20 Y SUVS operating inside a geographical area of ​​Austin, where each vehicle holds a human safety screen in the front passenger seat. Tesla also created a remote team to oversee the fleet and intervene, if necessary. The service will be an invitation only in Launch, where you choose Tesla, influential investors and customers to participate.

Horse riding will be available from 6 am to midnight, but robotics will not go everywhere: airport flights outside the border, and roads will avoid complex intersections. The service may also be stopped during bad weather. The goal, as Tesla says, is to gradually expand the program with safety monitoring – a great concern for organizers and legislators.

The National Road Traffic Safety Administration is still investigating the TESLA full program (FSD), which was linked to dozens of accidents and at least 13 deaths. Critics have argued that Tesla’s marketing about FSD may have exceeded the capabilities of the system, which still requires frequent human intervention and does not meet the standard definition of independent leadership.

In Texas, the state lawmakers officially requested that Tesla be postponed to postpone the launch until the rules governing the operations of independent vehicles are valid on the first of September. So far, the company has not indicated that it will delay its implementation.

Musk, who previously said that Tesla would have a million robots on the road by 2020, admitted that the launch of this June would not be completely independent. He described the mill as a “early arrival” stage and said that the company is “ultra-pantoid” on safety-warning that the date of June 22 can be returned as a result. It also disturbed a separate demonstration later this month, as Tesla will lead itself from the factory to the customer’s home by June 28. (Whether that trip is still clear.)

Wall Street, for her part, is closely watched – and betrayed greatly.

Tesla has increased by approximately 45 % since April, partly due to the enthusiasm of Robotaxi and the renewed Musk focus on artificial intelligence. Wedbush analysts expected that Tesla can expand the Robotaxi service to 25 American cities within a year. “The Tesla era of autonomy” will begin to launch Sunday, “Tesla Bull Dan IVES, the administrative director of Wedbush, said in a memorandum on Friday.

“Taking a step back, we see this independent chapter as one of the most important things in Musk and Tesla in its history as a company … We also believe that the future of artificial intelligence in Tesla deserves 1 trillion dollars for evaluation alone during the next few years.” “There are countless skeptics of seeing Tesla Robotaxi with many bears that you think of this day will never come, and now it comes to creating Musk and Tesla this basis of independent growth for years and everything begins on Sunday on Austin Street.”

However, Tesla has decreased by approximately 24 % in the past six months and 16 % years so far, making other analysts more skeptical. Some in Barclays and Purd warned that Tesla programs are still tracking competitors such as Alphabet’s Waymo and Amazon’s Zoox (which already provides a driver without a driver in multiple cities with more mature programs) and says that the robot of Tesla can prepare the company to check early tests.

Tesla stadium is that its approach will eventually expand faster than anyone else. Millions of Teslas are already on the road to record miles and feed data to the company’s artificial intelligence. Tesla uses vision programs only, while competitors also depend on Lidar and Radar sensors, adhere to pre -designated methods, and expand systematically, City by City. But the scale does not guarantee autonomy.

Meanwhile, competition wanders forward.

Waymo Robotaxis is already operating without a driver already in parts of Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with no human screens and millions of realistic miles under their belt. Zoox tests the compounds designed for this purpose without an ever driving wheel. Cruise, General Motors Self -driving unit, re -operates after a series of safety scandals but plans to return to the streets later this year.

Compared to these players, the Tesla Robotaxis-with a baby’s bis in the front seat-is more like a experimental test more than penetration.

However, if Tesla can carry out a soft launch (if it is modest), this may be the first real proof point in Musk’s ambition to determine the company from the car maker to the artificial intelligence platform – a transformation that it described as “transformational” to assess the Tesla. The company is betting on its future not on selling vehicles to drivers, but on the sale of Robotaxi ride to travelers – and data for themselves. If it is working, Tesla can lead the package. If not, this will be another milestone lost in an epic stuck in neutral for years.

It comes on June 22, we will discover any side of the robots robots that will be.