Will the future of transportation be unveiled tonight or will Tesla CEO Elon Musk make more grandiose unfulfilled promises to tease eager investors?
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00:00Will the future of transportation be unveiled tonight, or will Elon Musk simply make more
00:07grandiose unfulfilled promises to tease eager investors?
00:12We'll find out at 10 Eastern time when the Tesla CEO reveals his fully autonomous robo-taxi
00:18he's calling CyberCab.
00:21Prominent tech analyst Dan Ives says, quote, I think it will be viewed five to 10 years
00:25from now as what the iPhone launch moment was for Apple.
00:31Of course, Elon has promised as far back as 2016 that this very technology was just two
00:37years away.
00:39If successful, CyberCab would compete with Uber and Lyft as well as Google and GM's driverless
00:45programs Waymo and Cruise.
00:48Musk could also introduce a program wherein current Tesla owners essentially rent out
00:53their cars when not being used similar to Airbnb with cars.