The e-car pioneer wants to provide a robot taxi by 2024 that no longer needs a steering wheel.
Despite all the adversities, Elon Musk has it with him Tesla managed to pass the manufacturers. But when it comes to autonomous driving, Musk has broken more promises than he has kept. Nice years ago he wanted to bring a lidar-free robotic taxi onto the market, but it didn’t work out. He wanted a ride from one US coast to complete next, which never happened, and also 2020 he missed a deadline to deploy autonomous driving.
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Now there is a new announcement from Musk about autonomous driving with Tesla: By 2024, according to the richest man in the world with his electric car company, they not only want to bring an autonomous vehicle onto the market – no, it shouldn’t have one either steering wheel have more. This is not easy even in the USA, because there is no uniform legislation regarding autonomous driving. Individual states have established corresponding rules, but they also differ.
Another announcement from Musk that ultimately doesn’t come true? The assumption cannot be completely dismissed, but Musk announces this development against the background of an innovative leap. Musk spoke of innovations in artificial intelligence that would also lead to cost reductions. That includes the use of lidar out of.
Musk also admits that he has often made false predictions when it comes to autonomous driving. That Full Self Driving Package (FSD) would have been harder to improve than expected. However, there are currently efforts to limit Tesla’s activities in this regard, as there are some fatal accidents has come.