Musk first announced the robotaxi event in April, setting the unveiling date for August 8 – a date that Tesla had to postpone due to “an important front design change.”

The robotaxi appears to come at the expense of a $25,000 next-generation electric car that Musk has also promised. A few weeks after Musk announced the Robotaxi event, he cut more than 10% of Tesla's workforce and said the automaker would “do anything for autonomy.”

Musk has been promising autonomous capabilities in Tesla vehicles for years. The company's advanced driver assistance system is rather brazenly called “Full Self-Driving” (FSD), even though it doesn't drive completely autonomously and requires a human driver to pay attention and take over when needed – a fact that has been confirmed time and time again Drive-along videos that fans regularly post on social media.

When Musk first floated the idea of ​​robotaxis in 2019, the idea was that some existing Teslas could function as autonomous robotaxis only with software updates, potentially opening up the opportunity for Tesla owners to make money from their cars, if you don't drive them. This plan, which was supposed to put millions of robotaxis on the road by 2020, was never implemented. At the time, Musk said Tesla would deploy its own fleet of robotaxis in places where there aren't enough people sharing their cars.

We're guessing this reveal – taking place in a Hollywood studio – is less about the autonomous technology and more about the vehicle itself. Musk has said he wants to build a robotaxi without a steering wheel or pedals, and images of the vehicle included in Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography published in 2023 show a two-door, two-seater compact vehicle inspired by the Cybertruck.

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