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Tesla and CEO Elon Musk this week shared a little more about their vision for the self-driving ride-hailing service the electric vehicle (EV) maker is building.
This additional information was announced Tuesday, when the company announced its first-quarter financial results, which included updates on future models, robotaxis, artificial intelligence efforts, and more.
Tesla said it plans to “seamlessly embed ride-hailing services into the Tesla app.”
Tesla’s corporate logo is displayed on the front of a store in Santa Monica, California, on April 10, 2023. (Gary Hershawn/Getty Images/Getty Images)
A “preview” image released by the company on Tuesday suggested the ride-hailing service’s app would be similar to those of existing ride-hailing companies. There could also potentially be a “summon” button.
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According to Tesla’s first-quarter shareholder presentation, ride-hailing features the company is developing are “slated to become available in the future.”
“We have invested in an ecosystem of hardware and software to enable self-driving vehicles and ride-hailing services. We believe that a scalable and profitable self-driving business will be We believe this can be achieved through a vision-only architecture with end-to-end neural networks trained on “billions of miles of real-world data,” the company said.
Tesla has previously cited building self-driving vehicles as a company goal.
Musk said Tuesday that the fleet will be operated by Tesla, and likened it to a mashup of Airbnb and Uber.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures while attending the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups held at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. (Chesnot/Getty Images/Getty Images)
“Think of it like a combination of Airbnb and Uber,” he said. “That means Tesla will have a certain number of cars that it owns and operates itself.” “There will be a certain number of cars, and then there will be a large number of cars owned by end users.”
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Users can “add or remove their cars from their fleet at any time they want” and “make the car available only to friends and family, only 5-star users, or “You can decide at any time before you make a call for personal use,” Musk explained.
Building a self-driving ride-hailing service has been a long-standing goal for Tesla, and the EV maker’s CEO has discussed it at multiple points, including in 2019 and 2022. That would require a fully self-driving Tesla.
A new Tesla car in the parking lot of the Tesla factory on October 19, 2022 in Fremont, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Earlier this year, Tesla launched the latest version of its fully self-driving software, which requires driver supervision. And towards the end of the summer, Tesla plans to hold an event to introduce its specialized robot taxi, CyberCab.
| ticker | safety | last | change | change % |
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| TSLA | Tesla Inc. | 162.13 | +17.52 | +12.12% |
More information about Tesla’s other project, a low-cost EV model, will be announced at the same time as the CyberCab announcement, Musk said Tuesday.
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According to Tesla, cheaper vehicles and other planned new models “utilize aspects of the current platform as well as aspects of the next-generation platform and can be produced on the same manufacturing lines as the current vehicle lineup.” ”. .
In 2023, total vehicle production and deliveries reached approximately 1.85 million and 1.8 million vehicles, respectively.
