During a robotic taxi demonstration, Elon Musk says the fully autonomous car will drive while you sleep.
A video played by Elon Musk showed various things people can do in the front seat when not having to drive, including going to sleep.
On the path to autonomous vehicles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been known to stretch the truth.
The name for Tesla’s software, „full self-driving“ — or, FSD — is itself a misnomer. The latest promises of autonomous automobile AI are prompting skeptics to roll their eyes.
On Thursday evening, at the fabled Warner Bros. Studio soundstage in Hollywood., Musk rode down the fake streets in a self-driving „robotaxi“, a product he says will become available „before 2027.“ The vehicle has neither a steering wheel nor pedals, and Musk sat in the front passenger seat.
The „Cybercab“, as Musk called the vehicle, will allow a new level of autonomy via artificial intelligence (AI). A video showed people reading in the front seat, hands off the wheel, and undertaking a variety of other activities — including reading, watching movies, and even sleeping — as the car continued to pilot itself without their assistance.
To prepare the market for the robotaxi, some of which may be owned by individuals, said Musk, he plans to seed the market next year with an update to FSD, called „unsupervised“ FSD — an advance, he said, on the current „supervised“ FSD.
Musk began the video by getting into the gull-wing doors of the Cybercab, on the passenger side, as a triumphant driver-less ride.
