Here We Go Again: Elon Musk Reportedly Plans to Unveil Tesla Robotaxi at Warner Bros. Studios Lot

Tesla plans to amusement disconnected its caller robotaxi merchandise to the satellite connected October 10 astatine the Warner Bros. movie workplace batch successful Burbank, California, according to a caller study from Bloomberg Friday, citing “people acquainted with the matter.” The lawsuit was primitively scheduled for August 8 but was pushed backmost by Elon Musk for chartless reasons, starring galore to speculate astir however acold on his enigma merchandise truly is.

Musk archetypal announced the robotaxi lawsuit for August soon aft Reuters reported backmost successful April that Tesla was scrapping plans to physique a long-anticipated low-cost electrical car. Musk initially denied that study but consequent reporting seems to corroborate it’s accurate.

Musk past announced connected the aforesaid time successful April that helium was going to unveil a robotaxi successful the adjacent future, a communal maneuver utilized by the Tesla CEO to divert attraction from atrocious news. Fans of the billionaire tech mogul ate it up but were understandably disappointed erstwhile Musk decided to push the lawsuit until October. The car institution reportedly needed, “more clip to make prototypes to demonstrate,” the capabilities, according to Bloomberg.

Musk has made galore promises that wholly autonomous driving is conscionable implicit the horizon, but radical person been waiting rather a portion present for that to happen.

“Functionality inactive looking bully for this year. Regulatory support is the large unknown,” Musk tweeted successful April 2020 astir Tesla robotaxis.

And connected immoderate level, autonomous cars are already here. The problem, of course, is gathering information standards that minimize the fig of adverse incidents connected the road. You’ve surely seen plentifulness of videos connected societal media by present wherever Tesla cars successful what’s been historically called “Full Self-Driving” person pulled precise dangerous maneuvers.

It’s not wide wherefore Tesla is holding the lawsuit astatine a movie workplace and neither Tesla nor Warner Bros. responded to questions email connected Friday. Tesla abolished its media relations section a fewer years ago, truthful frankly we’re not expecting to perceive from anyone there. But it’s absorbing that Warner Bros. would beryllium truthful consenting to hitch its wagon to a politically polarizing fig similar Musk.

Before the Trump era, Musk was wide seen successful the fashionable imaginativeness arsenic a forward-thinking individualist simply creating absorbing technologies, adjacent if the world was overmuch much complicated. But present successful 2024, Musk is simply a hyperpartisan hack who’s openly endorsed Trump. That’s not typically the benignant of happening the makers of immoderate mainstream product, particularly movies and entertainment, would privation to person associated with their company.

It looks similar we’ll get to spot successful October, though. Provided Musk doesn’t propulsion it backmost yet again.