See Tesla's Musk Introduce New CyberCab, Robotaxi
Welcome, welcome to the we robot party. So we have uh we have quite a show for you tonight. I think you're gonna like it. Uh As you can see, I just arrived in the Robo taxi, the cyber cab and uh there's 20 more where that came from. So they've been traveling, they're all, there's no people in them as you can see the cars just going by with no people. Whoa, and we have uh we have 50 fully autonomous cars here tonight. So you'll see model wise and the Cyber cab, uh all driverless. Uh you'll, you'll be able to take a ride in the cyber cab. There's no steering wheel or pedals. So I hope this goes well, we'll find out. But so, so you, you see a lot of uh sci fi movies where uh the future is, is dark and dismal where uh it's not a future you want to be in. So, you know, like I, I love Blade Runner but uh I don't know if we want that future. I think we want that uh that duster he's wearing but uh but, but not, but not the uh the bleak apocalypse. Uh we want to have a fun, exciting future that if you could look in a crystal bowl and see the future you'd be like, yes, I wish I could be there. Now, that's what we want. So, so when we think about transport today, there's a lot of kind of pain that we take for granted that we think is normal. Um like having to drive around to L A uh in like three hours of traffic. Um Yeah, and for people that live in LA, I mean, you know, try to get from Pasadena to, you know, El Segundo during rush hour is like you can fly to, you know, another city faster than you can get to crosstown L A. How many hours a week are cars used? Your average passenger car is only used about 10 hours a week out of 100 and 100 and 68 hours. So the vast majority of the time cars are just doing nothing. But if they're autonomous, they could be used. I don't know, five times more, maybe, maybe 10 times more. So you could actually, for the, the same car would have five times as much value, maybe, maybe 10 times as much value. It's, it's, there's 100 100 and 68 hours in the week and like I said, only 10 of them are used for driving. So and then, and then a bunch of those hours are looking for a parking spot which is, you know, can be pretty annoying at times. So, so we want with autonomy, you get, you get your time back. This is a very big deal. So it's, it's not just a safe, like it'll, it'll save lives like a lot of lives, um, and prevent injuries. I, I think we'll see autonomous cars become 10 times safer than a human. Um, I mean, if you think of times past where there were, there used to be an elevator operator in every elevator. Uh, but, uh, once in a while they get, you know, they get tired and, uh, they accidentally show somebody in half. Uh, you know, so, so now we have automated elevators, you just get an elevator and you press a button and you don't even think about it and it just takes you to the floor and if you did see an elevator operator with a big relay switch, you'd be like, that's weird. Um, now that's, that's how cars will be. Um, and, and it's not just the lives saved in injuries, but if you look at the, think about the cumulative time that people spend in a car and the time that they will get back that they can now spend, well, I guess on their phones or, or, or watching a movie or doing work or whatever you wanna do. Um, you can think of the, the car in the autonomous world as being like just a, uh, a little lounge you're just sitting in, in a comfortable little lounge and you can do whatever you want while you're in this comfortable little lounge and when you get out, you will be at your destination. So yeah, it's gonna be awesome. So, so in fact, we we I think the the cost of autonomous transport will be so low that you can think of it like individualized mass transit. The the average cost of of a bus per mile for a city, not, not the ticket price because that is subsidized, but the average price is about a dollar a mile. Whereas the, the cost of, uh, Cyber cab, uh, we, we think probably over time from the operating cost is probably going to be around 20 cents a mile. Um, and price including taxes and, and everything else probably ends up being 30 or 40 cents a mile. So, yes, and you will be able to buy one. Yeah. Yes, exactly. And, uh, we, we expect the cost to be below $30,000.