Tesla’s June launch of its long-awaited “robotaki” requires a lot of qualifications: it has been monitored, openly only a few invited and included somewhere between 10-20 vehicles.
The stock jumped 8% day after launch, and some participants and observers called it by success. The actions have largely given afterward since then.
“I thought it was extremely smooth. Everything we saw,” said Vedbush analyst Dan Ives. “Not only from a security perspective. Maneuverness was impressive. I thought it was still better than Waymo from gate. I would be eight of 10 in relation to our experience.”
Other experiences were less smooth: One vehicle is a vehicle on misdem times, one vehicle stopped in the middle trafficone suddenly In the street 40 mph and another vehicle the passenger dropped in the middle of an intersection.
“What Tesla presented this last week was not robotaki,” said Analyst Gordon Johnson from the GLJ research in Note Thursday. “It is a newborn of robotake that requires constant supervision to stop him from injury to himself or others.”
Since 2016 years, CEO Elone musk promises that the Tesla vehicles were on top of a complete autonomy.
Teslin Master plan, part of Deuk, replaced by the future in Tesla, just a touch of or on vacation, how much you are on vacation, how much you are at work or vacation, how much you are at work or vacation, significantly revoked and occasionally into account and in progress. “
He said in October that year that all Tesla vehicles would have hardware necessary for full self-riding.
In 2019, he said Tesla will have a million robotaxies on the road to 2020. years.
So far, none of these predictions come true. And many researchers and rivals challenged the musky claim that Teslas already has all the hardware needed for complete autonomy.
The electric car manufacturer takes a very different path from each other main company working on completely vehicles for self-confidence. It does not use radar or lidar – laser devices located around the vehicle.
The companies love Alphabet ‘s Waymo and Amazon‘s Castle Any use and radar and Lidar. Tesla, in contrast, first of all use cameras. Musk said he thinks the software can make a difference.
“Within the autonomous vehicle industry, I think it’s frustrating and just a puzzle, everyone seems to be on the same page,” Ed Niedermeier said, a journalist covered by Tesla and written a book in the company for years. “You talk to almost all the bigger expert and they will say, what Tesla is doing in certain ways to drive a little way to drive some ways to drive some ways, it’s super impressive. Whether you can learn to drive.
The second key difference was long promoted by Tesla, what Niedermeier calls a “general solution” in complete self-driving. This means that each tesla will be able to drive under all circumstances anywhere in the world.
This is quite what Musk said in another Master Plan Tesla “, when true confidence was approved by the regulator, it will mean that you will be able to call your Tesl.”
This represents huge technical challenges.
“If your operational domain is the whole world, how ever you get enough miles to know that you covered everything you will ever see in all the conditions that exist there in the world?” Niedermeier said.
All others take a travel route – scheduling a vehicle fleet in a retail area such as parts of Austin, Texas, Phoenix and San Francisco.
The fact that Tesla chose that only robotakis in Section of Austin, and not to wander everywhere, whether Niedermeier said that the company somehow proved that it showed that to be a feasible approach.
“It’s funny because Tesla wants Austin to be a play, the performance she shows,” Hey, like, we do, we can do it, can we do it, can we do it, can we do it, can we do it, can we do it, can we do it, can we do it, can we do it? “” He said “”. “But really what is showing is, well, Waymo had it all the time.”
Musk still has fans and believers.
“Tesla is the future,” Darko Protič said, Austin resident who CNBC talked in a local café store.
Protic said he owned several Tesla vehicles and drove in similar autonomous vehicles from Waymo, which said he became after a little concern. He also drove cars like robotaki in China and has less trust in those.
“They’re not so sure,” Protic said. “They are smaller. But I believe in Teslas, honestly.”
Another fan is Michael Simon, from Bude, Texas.
“I just think it’s amazing what, what Elone does,” he said. “When I saw that Robotakis was active, I was like, I want to drive.”
Neither against the Simon did not drive in the initial launch models, but they both said they were looking forward to chance.
“Elon made a huge investment in the Austin area, and that I am younger and I still work, I would absolutely put on a resume that Tesla tries to go for work for them and that part of that exciting technology and future,” Simon said.
