The closed captions are running ahead of the talking.
"Just ride a bus" is the "640K ought to be enough for anybody" of the current cycle.
Come to Switzerland and let SBB blow your mind
Hopefully they will pull through and get started soon enough.
Instead you have access to a fleet of specialized vehicles that are optimized for different tasks. Eg many trips might still be with only one or two passangers, and then a small two seater makes a lot of sense. If you need larger capacity you simple order a ride from a suitable vehicle class.
So building it without dead weight that will almost never be used makes sense.
If you're a bigger party, there will probably be bigger robotaxis to summon. Or take two cars.
Also videos of more humanoid robots that move better than the ones shown live.
Overall, this demo looks a lot like the self driving vehicles at Guangzhou Bio Island. They have slow self-driving buses and taxis in a somewhat controlled environment.[1] That sort of thing has been working for about five years now.
Pictures of robotic car interior cleaning, but no mention of that.
Perhaps he's made another deal with the board for a better $100B pay package so he can lie to the shareholders (who'll eat it up) and he'll dump subpar products onto these people who are heralding him as another "genius" or whatever.
He's just another run-of-the-mill, out of touch conman at this point. He was great, but he didn't hold onto his own greatness.
edit: Something about a park ride?! ... Jesus.
[0] - https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-timeline-1851664786#....
Fool me once, shame on Elon. Fool me 194 times, shame on me.
Cybercab before 2027.
Reddit comment with his predictions:
https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/n6nsmt/elo...
In reality we almost always want to go from X to Y. So we end up going from X to A to B to Y.
In the end that's so inefficient that most of us buy a car. Robotaxis could change that equation drastically.
One problem is regular trips, such as commuting and shopping, where most people need to regularly go from residential areas to office areas or to commercial areas. Here, the vast majority of people, all over the world and with few local exceptions, use public transport (trains, subways, trams, buses, etc). The fact that you have to walk a little bit to the station and from the station to your destination is not a major concern, compared to the cost and the time difference VS filled city streets. If all the people commuting, say, by subway in Tokyo were each in a robotaxi, you'd need most of the day just to finish the morning commute.
Then there are more independent trips, where your schedule is not aligned with public transport, or where there is some urgency, or where your destination is very far away from a station, or where you have very heavy bags etc. For those cases, a car is of course the ideal, so lots of people, even many of those that commute daily by public transport in cities, also own a car.
You cannot eat on the bus. You cannot bring your grocery bags on the bus. You cannot bring your pets on the bus.
Also, there’s the fact you have to sit with (and smell) 99 other people. Some of them you may find are mentally unstable shitbags that will possibly assault you.
No thanks.
Keep talking like this and you'll leave yourself baffled as to why society ends up disagreeing with you. If you look at the voting patterns of people not only in the Americas but also increasingly in Europe, they are already pushing back.