“Your vehicle is on their way to your home”: if we are now used to receiving this type of message when asking for a taxi or VTC, this can soon be the case when you receive your next car. Tesla has just published a video where you can watch a model of its assembly plant, the Austin Gigafactory, Texas, to go directly to a client in autonomous driving.
In the video shared in X and YouTube by Tesla, you can check the accelerated vehicle route. A small window in the lower right allows you to see other viewing angles, to see that there is no one on board or views from the outside filmed from another vehicle.
Tesla also transmitted the full video of the real speed trip, enough to study the behavior of the vehicle in traffic more easily and take into account the lights and other stop panels.
A 25 km route with no one on board
As indicated in the description of the videos, we can see that this model makes about 25 km in almost 30 minutes without difficulty, taking the road and then circulating in the city easily.
“This is the first time a car is dedicated to its own owner!” Elon Musk wrote on a tweet, taking the published by the client with memory photos taken at the reception of the vehicle.
In another Tweet, the Tesla chief congratulated Tesla AI teams, the entity dedicated to the artificial intelligence (AI) of the American manufacturer, “both for the software and for the design of the flea of AI”, emphasizing that the operation had been carried out “one day of anticipation” in the scheduled calendar.
What do Robotaxi forgotten forget?
The Tesla model was driving there with the software that equipped the Robotaxi service, launched on June 23 in delimited areas of this same city of Austin and also with Tesla Model and, while waiting for the future Cybercab. But some problems have been observed, with crimes such as speeding or traffic on the wrong way, which causes an investigation by the American Road Safety Agency, the NHTSA.
Therefore, this 100% autonomous delivery was sure to reassure customers and investors, after these small hypo at the beginning of the Robotaxi service, which remains in the trial phase before a general public implementation. An important issue for Tesla that wants to catch up with Waymo, the Google subsidiary that already offers its service in several cities in the United States.
Once you have received the delivery of your model and, the customer will not be able to take advantage of the Robotaxi software, with a vehicle that changes to the FSD, for “full autonomous”, the most advanced level of semi -autonomous driving functions in Tesla, specifies a small text at the beginning of the video.
A function called totally autonomous driving in French, which is worth continuing for “deceptive commercial practices” in France, said a press release of the repression of the fraud of June 24.
What uses in the future?
Therefore, Tesla is relating to the autonomous car race, after being one of the pioneers in this area. In October 2016, the brand, for example, transmitted a video in which we could see an X model making a complete trip without intervention by the driver.
More recently, we could see a model 3 with development software circulating easily in the place of L’Toile in Paris. A place considered as one of the most complex to understand for an autonomous vehicle, as for a human.
These autonomous driving functions could revolutionize the “individual” car, potentially shared by the owners. A use that Elon Musk promised in model 3, without this materializing so far. An owner could, for example, indicate the hours of the week when his vehicle can be rented to other motorists.
The fact that a vehicle can move with anyone on board opens many perspectives:
“A small step for a car, a big step for the car”, can be read in the comments of the video of this 100% autonomous installment, which assumes the famous event by Neil Armstrong.
“Imagine your car needs an interview. Make an appointment. Your car goes to the garage. Do your review and go home,” he dreams of another comment.
“I can’t wait for mine to leave me at the airport and go home alone. It is not necessary for Uber,” a youtuber imagine.
“You forget to pay your monthly rent. Your car … disappears,” jokes another comment, in a less comprehensive version of these new uses.
Source: BFM TV
