{"id":26471,"date":"2024-10-02T22:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/108041798"},"modified":"2024-10-02T22:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:50:06","slug":"after-a-decade-of-elon-musk-promising-tesla-robotaxis-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/after-a-decade-of-elon-musk-promising-tesla-robotaxis-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"After a decade of Elon Musk promising Tesla robotaxis, here\u2019s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/after-a-decade-of-elon-musk-promising-tesla-robotaxis-heres-what-we-know.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>For a decade, Elon Musk has championed the idea that one day <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Tesla<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> cars will drive themselves as robotaxis. Next week, the company will unveil the design of its autonomous cabs. <\/p>\n<p>Despite years of <span class=\"waslinkname\">bold predictions and missed deadlines<\/span>, fans of the company are holding out hope that Musk will finally deliver at an Oct. 10 event. Regardless of what the company showcases at its robotaxi day, experts are skeptical of the company&#8217;s strategy, citing its Auotpilot and FSD technology as a barometer for Tesla&#8217;s progress, or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p>In the decade that Musk has promised driverless vehicles, competitors have made them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Alphabet<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>-owned Waymo already operates a commercial robotaxi service in several U.S. cities, <span class=\"waslinkname\">surpassing 100,000 paid rides per week<\/span> as of August. <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-5\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Amazon<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>-owned Zoox began <span class=\"waslinkname\">testing rides for employees<\/span> in February 2023 with ambitions<span class=\"waslinkname\"> to launch its own robotaxi service<\/span>. In China, Pony.ai and Baidu are running commercial robotaxi services too.<\/p>\n<p>The market could be lucrative. In one bullish estimate, Raymond James predicts $50 billion in annual robotaxi bookings by 2030.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With <span class=\"waslinkname\">U.S. EV sales growth slowing<\/span>, there&#8217;s a lot riding on Tesla&#8217;s potential pivot to autonomy.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\">Watch the video<\/span> to see the road Tesla has taken to realizing its robotaxi ambitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a decade, Elon Musk has championed the idea that one day Tesla cars will drive themselves as robotaxis. Next week, the company will unveil the design of its autonomous cabs. Despite years of bold predictions and missed deadlines, fans of the company are holding out hope that Musk will finally deliver at an Oct. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-26471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26471"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=26471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}