Tesla unveils Cybercab: a $30,000 electric robotaxi coming in the next 2 years | Electrek
Tesla unveils Cybercab: a $30,000 electric robotaxi coming in the next 2 years | Electrek
Tesla has unveiled a new vehicle called Cybercab; a $30,000 electric robotaxi coming in the next 2 years. At an...
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electric robotaxis can help reduce co2 emissions and decrease the total amount of cars. This is good.
Indeed.
I just doubt his ability to actually bring it to market in any reasonable capacity anytime soon.
It will end up being analogous to Uber and Lyft, and neither helps reducing the amount of cars on the road.
If it works. Don't Teslas still have problems in his stupidass underground Vegas loop? And that's pretty much as ideal driving conditions as you can get.
Ironically that's pretty much the only place where FSD struggles at.
Looks more like the number of cars will stay the same-ish, but now there won't be a taxi driver making a living of it.
Wrong. The problem right now is low utilisation of cars. Most cars just sit around 90-95% of the day. A robotaxi would have much higher utilisation, therefore fewer cars are needed overall.
A robotaxi would have much higher utilisation
You could call this "hope".
Or "wet dream".
Are you familiar with the concept of a taxi? Do you really think a taxi does not make more trips per day than a privately owned car?
I think that this depends heavily on the success of that enterprise.
I am pretty sure that they start (when / if they start) with a very high number of vehicles in a city.
In theory.
I also hope this can be a solution for people who need a car to live while reducing the number of individual cars, but I'm afraid Tesla is not really interested in reducing the number of cars.
Robotaxis are NOT going to reduce the number of cars that are filling up the streets and parking spaces.
They are replacing some of the traditional traffic while they carry passengers, and then they add more traffic when going home (or searching for a parking lot, or doing idle circles) after the ride, and when coming for the next passenger.
When I say people who need a car, I mean people outside of cities where it is not reasonable to have public transportation. In this case, having a system of automatic electric cars that can be used by different people for their daily commute could reduce the number of cars outside of cities if the service is good enough.
Inside cities, public transportation is the solution.