Tesla to unveil Robotaxi on 8/8: Musk

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[Ali_Baba]

Will be interesting to if and when something similar will come to the Uk given how complicated and strange and narrow our roads are.

USA roads are very very easy to drive on compared to the Uk or Europe.

What it's like to ride in Uber's new self-driving taxis in London

The ride-hailing app has launched 15 self-driving taxis, but they will have safety drivers inside.

www.bbc.co.uk

Early days..

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

night rides too...remember no LiDAR or RADAR...just cameras

Tesla Cybercab | 6am ride before sunrise



Uber is in big trouble...and so are rental companies


you can go pretty far in an hour

The TRUTH about the Tesla Cybercab | ONE HOUR unedited ride

1 hour just driving around in a car with no steering wheel or pedals

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Will be interesting to if and when something similar will come to the Uk given how complicated and strange and narrow our roads are.

USA roads are very very easy to drive on compared to the Uk or Europe.

What it's like to ride in Uber's new self-driving taxis in London

The ride-hailing app has launched 15 self-driving taxis, but they will have safety drivers inside.

www.bbc.co.uk

Early days..

hmm a camera system that doesn't use Lidar or radar...what craziness is this?

 

[Viet]

It's all about sales not "better" design. Flashy appearance car models come and go and it's about consistent sales not flash.

Which is still on the road today

this cool looking one:

(1991-2000)

or this boring one:

1966-Present


People just don't get it. Flash means nothing.
It's actually a detriment. The car company wastes tons of R&D and tooling money for little long term gain on a car that's hot and then completely not.

You want a consistent yearly seller like the Toyota Corolla. Not a flash in the pan like the Mitsubishi 3000GT.

Even in China you can see how a consistency strategy with not the most exciting looking cars can pay off

Do you see the cheaper-than-a-Tesla BYD Han or any of the other hyped cool looking cars from XPeng/Nio/Li Auto with the greatest features talked about over the last 5 years? No, they will get awesome review videos saying they are great/magical/futuristic/amazing and then slip into the usual obscurity after a few years...and the boring ones remain.


Hey car of the year...looks great/magical/futuristic/amazing...and then what?

I mean how Tesla builds cars. Musk puts emphasis on tech, not on design. Look at design of cybercab, cybertruck they look ugly by any standards. But it seems there is a lot of customers who prefer tech over design. That’s totally a different approach to let’s say Apple. Usually technology alone doesn’t sell products.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

no rare earths..first production EV engine to do this


confirmed Tesla own designed NCM 4680 batteries used

Tesla Cybercab Engineering: Supermanifold V3, New Motor, New Battery, 470 km Range​

 

[313Ghazi]

Will be interesting to if and when something similar will come to the Uk given how complicated and strange and narrow our roads are.

USA roads are very very easy to drive on compared to the Uk or Europe.

What it's like to ride in Uber's new self-driving taxis in London

The ride-hailing app has launched 15 self-driving taxis, but they will have safety drivers inside.

www.bbc.co.uk

Early days..

They've been flopping in the UK apparently.

 

[Ali_Baba]

They've been flopping in the UK apparently.

The UK is a hard problem to solve for self-driving cars. I am not convinced we will see many of these cars except between specific locations on geo-fenced routes at the outset imho.

I reckon over time, each and every street and road will get classified as being self-driving compatible or not, and that will increase the scope of these cars.

I can't imagine these cars driving around the side streets in Alum Rock in Birmingham, or the same in Rusholme in Manchester for example.

 

[313Ghazi]

The UK is a hard problem to solve for self-driving cars. I am not convinced we will see many of these cars except between specific locations on geo-fenced routes at the outset imho.

I reckon over time, each and every street and road will get classified as being self-driving compatible or not, and that will increase the scope of these cars.

I can't imagine these cars driving around the side streets in Alum Rock in Birmingham, or the same in Rusholme in Manchester for example.

The infrastructure doesn't support it. Think about those side streets, they exist in every UK city. Built nearly 200 years ago. Same roads, just now they have cars parked down both streets and a narrow gap in the middle. Locals know how to spot the gaps, when you have to reserve back, non locals get stuck. I swear when we've had diversions force goray through the ends there have been times to get through traffic I've left my car, walked up to the blockage and guide them through it. People just sit there looking at each other like "oh shit what do we do now".

Also imagine country roads. Single track, ditches each side man's coming round blind bends at 60mph and then a tractor doing 10mph around the next one. Go over the hill and you have posh twats on horses and a line of traffic because some leftie is too scared to overtake the horse.

 

[Ali_Baba]

The infrastructure doesn't support it. Think about those side streets, they exist in every UK city. Built nearly 200 years ago. Same roads, just now they have cars parked down both streets and a narrow gap in the middle. Locals know how to spot the gaps, when you have to reserve back, non locals get stuck. I swear when we've had diversions force goray through the ends there have been times to get through traffic I've left my car, walked up to the blockage and guide them through it. People just sit there looking at each other like "oh shit what do we do now".

Also imagine country roads. Single track, ditches each side man's coming round blind bends at 60mph and then a tractor doing 10mph around the next one. Go over the hill and you have posh twats on horses and a line of traffic because some leftie is too scared to overtake the horse.

I think the focus for the UK should be on electrification infrastructure, maybe a government funded or subsidized home installation of car chargers as a strategic investment, I don't see self driving in the UK being a factor for all the reasons you have stated.