Elon Musk Has Been Promising Robotaxis To Investors Since 2016
Photo: Heiko Junge / AFP (Getty Images) “Master Plan, Part Deux” was the first concrete mention of a Tesla robotaxi. The 2016 blog post, which is no longer published on …
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Elon Musk’s Same Old Self-Driving Promises At Tesla’s Cybercab Launch Fail To Impress Investors
Good morning! It’s Friday, October 11, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
Tesla May Not Even Have Real Cars At Its Robotaxi Launch Event
Tfw the magic car that’s supposed to save your flailing company isn’t real 🙁Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP (Getty Images) Tesla has big plans to release a company-saving robotaxi next week, leveraging …
Dockworkers Reach Deal To End Massive East Coast Strike
Good morning! It’s Friday, October 4, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
Rideshare Drivers Are Using Teslas With Full Self-Driving As Half-Assed Robotaxis
People are apparently very stupid, and that is why Uber and Lyft drivers are using Tesla’s shoddy-at-best Full Self-Driving program to complete rides, creating – in essence – makeshift robotaxis. …
Tesla Missed Its Quarterly Delivery Target Again
Photo: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance (Getty Images) Don’t get me wrong, Tesla is still dominating the electric vehicle market, but control is quickly slipping. The Austin, Texas-based automaker handed over fewer …
It Takes An Army Of Engineers To Make Self-Driving Cars Actually Self-Drive
The race to create a real self-driving car is heating up, with startups like Waymo deploying its autonomous taxis across U.S. cities, billions of dollars being plowed into new technology …
Autonomous Taxis Aren’t The Biggest Threat To Uber, Uber Is
Taxi drivers have been ferrying people around America’s cities for decades with the biggest change to the sector coming when Uber burst onto the scene and made us all rely …
Chrysler Not For Sale, Stellantis Won’t Kill Or Sell Any Brand
Good morning! It’s September 2, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the …
Tesla Can’t Even Make Full-Self Driving Work In A Tunnel It Built
Tesla, the company that CEO Elon Musk claims will “solve autonomy,” has a problem: It turns out autonomy is hard. The company is totally definitely introducing a fully autonomous robotaxi …