Elon Musk’s robotaxi fantasy is starting to unravel

Last night, Elon Musk did what he was doing better: The “millions” promise from the independent Tesla vehicles will be on the road by the end of next year.

It has become familiar. Every year, at least 2020, Musk has finally promised Tesla compounds its full capacity for self -driving. And every year, these promises fail in the fruits. Tesla has been investigated in many deaths that involve its cars, the features of the driver’s assistance, the creation of the automated pilot and the full self -driving. His competitors continue to excel. Musk admitted until his excessive optimistic outlook by describing himself as “the boy who cried FSD”.

This imagination of millions of independent Tesla compounds is approaching reality, and promised to musk again last night. You will be able to sleep in your car and wake up in your destination by the end of this year. Since the financial problems in Tesla, the CEO billionaire appears to be eager to convert the focus away from the smell facts in the management of a auto company amid a turbulent global trade war, and towards a more ideal vision for a company that focuses on the future that produces millions of robots, whether from humans or car.

But this imagination seems far from hand, especially since Musk faces Tesla technology restrictions, and the current political reality that helped in its intervention.

During the call, it was clear that Musk intended to continue to follow the goal of publishing entirely independent vehicles using the camera sensor suite only and a comprehensive nervous network trained on billions of miles of the company’s fleet.

Tesla has no public relations department and stopped answering questions from journalists for nearly six years. Often, Musk’s claims are not completely driving in driving, and he rarely asks for his positions. Since his acquisition of Twitter, the brand renamed, MUSK has been able to rely on his elementariens to amplify his promises about his independent cars to the broader world, with a little decline.

Tesla profit calls remain the last place where Musk Field is asking about company technology – these questions are often mobilized with many fake and disturbing notes from financial analysts who have developed billionaires with billionaire CEO over the past decade. But last night, Musk faced many indicative inquiries about Tesla plans to carry out a driver without a driver in Austin within a few months, as investors continue to struggle to analyze reality from imagination.

Last year, Musk said that Tesla would publish a “non -overseeing” robota in Austin, Texas, starting in June 2025. In the call last night, Musk stuck to this deadline, but added more colors about what can be expected. He said that the paid Ridehalding service will consist of 10-20 Y vehicles with remote operators in the event of any cars stumbled. Not to be supervised, but also activated in the event of an emergency.

Robotaxis from Tesla will have “audio inputs” to listen to the approach to emergency vehicles – well, at least some, according to Ashok Eluswamy, Vice president of Autopilot and AI. He said: “The customer who faces publications does not contain audio inputs, but the version that will be in Austin will have sound inputs.”

Musk has long promised to self -referee 5, which describes vehicles without a driver who can travel anywhere, under any circumstances, without restrictions. But last night, he corrected himself: There will be some restrictions. For example, it may be a “strong snowy storm in Manhattan” outside self -driving taxis in Tesla. In other words, geological, a practice used by every other operator for self -government vehicles, but usually avoids musk because it contradicts his vision of a non -central fleet of car without a free driver to wander anywhere they want.

Musk said: “It is increasingly clear that there is some value because there is a local group of parameters for different regions and sweeteners,” Mousse said.

One analyst asked about the reliability of Tesla cameras when facing the glow of the sun, fog or dust. Musk claimed that the company’s vision system transcends images and uses instead counting the direct photon to calculate “noise” such as glow or dust.

The other Robotaxi operators decided that the cameras are not enough to directly direct a driver car through a complex environment. Companies like Waymo, which currently performs 200,000 self -ruling taxi flights, depends on a sensor wing that includes LIDAR, Radar and Oudrasonic devices for repetition if the car appears in any difficulty. Lidar describes “crutch”.

During the invitation, Musk mocked the Waymo approach as a “more than money” of his company. Tesla build their own cars, computers and private sensors. It is an entirely integrated, which is what Musk is arguing gives the “leg” to its competitors. Of course, it was not indicated to replace the main devices that millions of Tesla cars will require them to achieve their promise to complete self-driving-a process previously described as “painful” and expensive.

Musk said: “Tsalas … may cost a quarter or 20 percent of the cost of Waymo and make it in a very large size,” Mousse said. “Therefore, as you know, from the paradoxes, we who made the bet that the pure artificial intelligence solution with cameras … is the right step.”

The obstacles remain, the musk confesses. Tesla will have “10 million independent cars” on the road within a few years, unless “we are prohibited according to organizational situations.” Any kind of organizational positions, not prepared. At the present time, there is nothing standing on the Tesla road from spreading dozens or even hundreds of cars without a driver if they choose. The Trump administration, led by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency in Musk, has reduced thousands of jobs, including roles in organizational agencies achieved in the safety of self -driving systems in Tesla.

Definitions and emerging commercial tariffs can be attached. Cybercab production can be disabled in Tesla after the company stopped imports of ingredients from China thanks to President Trump’s tariff by 145 percent in the province.

Waymo cars operate completely without driver in four cities, including Austin, with more on the road. Tesla has not yet shown that its cars operate independently on public roads, preferring to stick to the demonstrations that control it for closed pieces or special roads.

But the real evidence is just around the corner – if you still believe in the promises of Elon Musk.