During Tesla’s “We, Robot” event, Elon Musk unveiled the long-awaited prototype robotaxi, Cybercab, which lacks a steering wheel or pedals, meaning it will need approval from regulators before going into production. The Tesla Optimus robots also showed off some new tricks. And Musk surprised attendees by presenting a new, unexpected vehicle: a passenger van, the Robovan. Here’s what you missed.
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00:00And who better than Elon, right, to show us that future?
00:18As you can see, I just arrived in the RoboTaxi, the CyberCab.
00:22There's no people in them, as you can see. The car's just going by with no people.
00:25So you'll see Model Ys and the CyberCab, all driverless.
00:32There's no steering wheel or pedals, so I hope this goes well.
00:37We'll find out.
00:38So we'll move from supervised full self-driving to unsupervised full self-driving,
00:44where you could fall asleep and wake up at your destination.
00:48But there's also a challenge for a lot of people that cars cost too much.
00:52I mean, when you factor in everything that goes into a car,
00:55and the car insurance, and the car payments, and the storage of the car,
00:59it's very expensive.
01:01So with autonomy, you get your time back.
01:05This is a very big deal.
01:07So it'll save lives, like a lot of lives, and prevent injuries.
01:14I think we'll see autonomous cars become ten times safer than a human.
01:21And it's not just the lives saved in injuries,
01:23but if you think about the cumulative time that people spend in a car,
01:28and the time that they will get back.
01:30In fact, I think the cost of autonomous transport will be so low
01:37that you can think of it like individualized mass transit.
01:42The average cost of a bus per mile for a city,
01:47not the ticket price, because that is subsidized,
01:49the average price is about a dollar a mile.
01:51Whereas the cost of CyberCab, the operating cost,
01:56is probably going to be around 20 cents a mile.
01:58So, yes, and you will be able to buy one.
02:02We expect the cost to be below $30,000.
02:05We do expect actually to start fully autonomous, unsupervised FSD
02:13in Texas and California next year.
02:17That's with the Model 3 and Model Y.
02:19We expect to be in production with the CyberCab in probably,
02:25well, I tend to be a little optimistic with time frames,
02:27but in 2026.
02:32Before 2027, let me put it that way.
02:34But well before that, you will experience a robotic taxi
02:40via the Model 3 and Model Y program.
02:42And Model S and X too.
02:45And the Cybertruck too, yes, of course.
02:47Sorry, I don't want to be, yes, yes.
02:49All our cars, basically.
02:51All cars that we make.
02:53Let's not get new ones here.
02:55All right, next slide.
02:57And I want to emphasize that the solution that we have
03:02is AI and vision.
03:04So there's no expensive equipment needed.
03:09And that means that our cost of producing the vehicle is low.
03:14All right, so our autonomous future is here.
03:17As I said, we've got 50 Teslas driving autonomously.
03:20Something we're also doing is,
03:22and it's really high time we did this,
03:24is inductive charging.
03:26The robotaxi has no plug.
03:29It just goes over the inductive charger and charges.
03:32One of the things that is really interesting is
03:35how will this affect the cities that we live in.
03:38So what would happen if you have an autonomous world
03:41is that you can now turn parking lots into parks.
03:45We're taking the ing lot out of parking lot.
03:48There's a lot of opportunity to create
03:56green space in the cities that we live in.
03:59Also, what happens if you need a vehicle
04:04that is bigger than a Model Y?
04:07The Revovin is,
04:09we're going to make this,
04:12and it's going to look like that.
04:13Now can you imagine going down the streets
04:15and you see this coming towards you?
04:16That would be sick.
04:18So this can carry up to 20 people
04:20and it can also transport goods.
04:22The Revovin is what's going to solve for high density.
04:25Everything we've developed for our cars,
04:28the batteries, power electronics,
04:30the advanced motors, gearboxes,
04:33the software, the AI inference computer,
04:37it all actually applies to a humanoid robot.
04:41It's the same techniques.
04:43It's just a robot with arms and legs
04:45instead of a robot with wheels.
04:48And we've made a lot of progress.
04:50You're really going to have something spectacular,
04:53something that anyone could own.
04:56At scale, this would cost something like,
05:00I don't know, $20,000, $30,000.
05:02Probably less than a car is my prediction long term.
05:05And what can it do?
05:07It'll basically do anything you want.
05:09So it can be a teacher, babysit your kids,
05:11it can walk your dog, mow your lawn,
05:13whatever you can think of, it will do.
05:16And I think this will be
05:19the biggest product ever of any kind.
05:22There's going to be maybe two,
05:25and then they'll be producing products and services.
05:29It will be an age of abundance.
05:32The likes of which people have not,
05:34almost no one has envisioned.
05:36It'll be something special.
05:38Let's party!