Tesla’s reveal of a robotaxi designed as a low-slung, two-seater, sporty coupe - quite the opposite of a typical taxi with room for several passengers and luggage - flummoxed investors and analysts.
But in true Musk style, he skipped over expectations of how a two-seater robotaxi would serve the needs of families headed to a restaurant or to the airport, or if he expected these to appeal only to a niche clientele.
Investors jeered the design and the lack of financial detail, with Tesla stocks tumbling 9% on Wall Street on Friday.
“When you think of a cab, you think of something that’s going to carry more than two people,” said Jonathan Elfalan, vehicle testing director for the automotive website Edmunds.com. “Making this a two-seat-only car is very perplexing.”
This is unveiling is stupid for, like… uncountable reasons. But are people really regularly riding in cabs that fit more than two people comfortably? Unless I specifically request a bigger vehicle from a cab service, a car with a backseat is usually what I get.
Interesting how this dumb thing has overshadowed SpaceX performing a chopstick landing for Starship. That’s a major achievement that suggests SpaceX will meet its goals for Starship. If Elon had a lick of sense, he’d want that to be the top headline on all the feeds.
Instead, it’s about this stupid taxi. If anyone thought Elon was still good at self promotion, this should kill it.
Oh, and he spent his after launch speech hawking a cryptocurrency scheme. So that’s great. Anybody still want to go to Mars with this guy?
two-seater, sporty coupe - quite the opposite of a typical taxi with room for several passengers and luggage - flummoxed investors and analysts.
The majority of rides are 1 or 2 people.
For when there’s more than 1 or 2 people… they have the model 3, and Y.
It’s not rocket science people.
But his other company did just catch a rocket between two giant chopsticks.
To me it makes sense because without the driver, there’s less need to maximize passengers per vehicle. Plus the added weight for the extra, often unused seats is a bigger problem for EVs because of the need to minimize weight (which then requires more heavy batteries). Generally the vast majority of taxi trips are one or two people, so you don’t wanna make them any bigger than necessary. And if there’s 4 people, they can just take 2.
The problem isn’t the number of seats, it’s that there’s no plan for them to become actually self-driving.
Investors jeered the design and the lack of financial detail, with Tesla stocks tumbling 9% on Wall Street on Friday.
I didn’t realize this stupid vehicle was a two-seater. What a dumbass move.
When investors attempted to hail the cab it ignored them according to another post I saw yesterday.
What a fucking moron. Dude is so goddamn stupid that every decision he makes is the wrong one. And yet people keep defending him…
He’s been at the point for some time where he believes being “contrarian” is the same as being “smart”.
Stop supporting Elon
The real problem that he failed to show any progress on self-driving. Self-driving has been 2 years away for the past 6 years and that’s the only real thing that will pull Tesla out of a downward spiral. Tesla stock is stupidly overpriced and competitors are catching up.
With nothing but empty promises, people are starting to realize that the emperor has no clothes. And really, who wants to see Musk naked? …that’s a bag nobody wants to be left holding.
It’s been 1 year away every year, not 2
Waymo did it well when I was in Tempe, so it already exists. Tesla just wasn’t putting quality hardware into it. The Jaguars were nice
I can’t wait for one of these to pull up with a puddle of vomit on the seat
I’m sure he’s imagining commuter clients using it to go to work every day on a subscription.
Or dragging a pedestrian?
I feel like you’re refrenceing some thing I don’t know.
I also don’t see how it could pertain to a self driving cab business model.
Could you elaborate?
Clown man
In all fairness the critics simply have to get high on drugs to see the car as it was meant to be viewed.
It seems selfish they are not
How often do you think Elon drives while blasted out of his mind on ketamine? Because I bet it’s a nonzero number.
I’ll take the bus, thanks. At least I will arrive alive at my destination.
But think of the opportunity cost here, you’d be wasting a chance to run over a child or a poor person!
I’m only taking this chance if I know elon will be in the road on my route at some point. Someone’s gonna get the X!
Seems like the minivan is really the right thing. Can share with multiple folks or have a significant amount of luggage for the airport or such. Easier to serve the handicapped.
It looks like they were working on the new roadster and Elmo told them they were switching to a driverless cab.
If it were a sports car it would probably sell really well because it’s got the doors that open like this
Im gonna start calling him Elmo from now on haha.
