Tesla
The American electric vehicle construction company made on Sunday the first trips of its Robotaxi, in the city of Austin, Texas-a cautious and modest release, which happens more than a decade after CEO Elon Musk first presented the idea.
Tesla’s robotaxis, adapted from Model Y vehicles, finally made their first trips on the streets of a city, in a test that took place on Sunday in Austin, Texas.
A test, limited in the context and wrapped in SecretismIt is a crucial step for the company, which still fights with the consequences of its founder’s foray into politics, says.
The company invited to take the test a group of investors and influencerssome of whom published videos on social networks reporting their experience of walking in these driver -free vehicles – who had, however, a human observer in place of the passenger.
The first users of the seemed globally satisfied with the experience. “No one is in the driver’s place and the safety monitor in place of the passenger has no steering wheel or pedals“Said the well -known Tesla fan and investor Sawyer Merrittafter your first trip. “It was fantastic.”
Before the tests, the Tesla CEO, Elon Musksaid the company was being “Super Paranoic about Security“The route of vehicles was limited to certain areas of the city, and included a security monitor.
“The culmination of a decade of hard work“, Musk no X.
Experimental launch is a fundamental step towards a longtime ambition of musk: having totally autonomous vehicles of Tesla to transport passengers in trips paid throughout the country, with no one behind the wheel.
Investors have been particularly eager for the presentation of these totally autonomous vehicles, which Musk bets as the future of the company, noting that “The value of Tesla, overwhelmingly, is the autonomy“.
Tesla chose Austin as a launch site for Robotaxi because Texas has a comparatively relaxed regulator environment for autonomous vehicles.
On Thursday, a group of state democratic legislators appealed to Tesla to delay its launch until after September 1, when new safety requirements for autonomous vehicles come into force.
The new updated law, which updates the 2017 state legislation, requires that commercial autonomous vehicle operators carrying passengers or goods obtain prior authorization of the Motorized Vehicle Department, among other measures.
Although it is long leader in the electric vehicle market USA, Tesla is trying to recover the delay in the kingdom of autonomous vehicles. Google are already a regular presence on the streets of San Francisco and have also been commercially released in Austin, Phoenix and Los Angeles.
The first taxis without driver are also a. “But by the hands of Chinese companies, such as Baidu, which prepares to bring their robotaxis to the old continent.”
In early May, Uber also announced that it plans to launch in Europe next year autonomous taxis equipped with Chinese Momenta autopilot technology.
