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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 Two-seaters have been proposed for decades as commuter vehicles. They just haven't taken off,
said Sam Fiorani, vice president at research firm AutoForecast Solutions It's probably a way that they can introduce something quick to market,
This is the actual interior of the Robobus/van,
Elon Musk wrote on Chinese social media Sina Weibo on Friday The Chinese automotive market has always remained open and welcomes foreign competitors to participate. Practice has proved that this open policy has not weakened the local automotive industry but has promoted the rapid development of the industrial chain and overall market growth,
This is an actual robot. I like. This Robobus is very beautiful,
one Chinese netizen commented under the post I watched the press conference yesterday, and it was a bit below expectations, but it still leads in technology,
I think this will be the biggest product ever, of any kind,
Tesla software is at least years behind where Waymo is. That’s the hard part. No flashy vehicle design is going to change that,
said Matthew Wansley, professor at New York’s Cardozo School of Law He’s shown the prototypes and definitely, there’s some excitement around it,
If they can do that, I don’t see why they wouldn’t launch a robotaxi service soon after,
It will be extremely difficult for Tesla to offer a new vehicle at that price within that timescale,
said Paul Miller, from research Forrester Can you imagine going down the streets and you see this coming toward you? That would be sick,
Musk told attendees as Tesla's Robovan rolled into Thursday's event It is a big chunk of metal driving on roads at high speeds, so safety concerns are big,
said Samitha Samaranayake, an associate professor in engineering at Cornell University Musk did a fantastic job of painting an ideal future for transportation that promises to both free up our time and increase safety,
said Jessica Caldwell, head of insights at Edmunds Many questions remain about how this will be achieved from a practical standpoint,
Without external subsidies, or Tesla making a loss on every vehicle, it doesn't seem plausible to launch at anything close to that price this decade,
The limiting factor right now is that the amount of miles between interventions is so long that it takes a while to figure out which version is better than the other version because none of them are requiring any interventions. The average person only drives about 10,000 miles in a year”
Musk himself has highlighted the challenges on X saying My culture is not your costume,
One user shared a photo of the song "Art Deco" by Lana Del Rey, and wrote Are we living in the past or the future i cannot tell but i think i like it,"
Nick Carr, who leads the Cyber Crime Intelligence Team at Microsoft, wrote ... while comparing the Robovan to a streamline train that was part of the collection of Mercury trains from the late 1930s