Elon Musk says Tesla house owners can ‘textual content and drive’ very quickly

Elon Musk went on stage on Thursday evening throughout Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting and made some large claims and guarantees. The corporate is “virtually snug” letting house owners with Full Self-Driving (FSD) “textual content and drive,” he stated. For the time being, its autos are nonetheless strictly monitoring drivers to verify their eyes are on the highway, however Musk stated that Tesla will allow unsupervised FSD that can enable texting and driving inside “a month or two.”

To notice, Tesla’s FSD is at the moment able to stage 2 autonomous driving. Musk is promising not less than a stage 4 functionality, by which the driving force will be disengaged because the automotive performs all driving duties for them, inside a brief span of time. Whereas he stated that Tesla will take a look at its security information first, he didn’t focus on the steps it’s taking to allow texting whereas driving and whether or not it’s already discussing the legalities of it with regulators.

Speaking in regards to the Cybercab, Musk stated manufacturing of the robotaxis will start by April subsequent 12 months. Since it will likely be particularly constructed with autonomy in thoughts, it is not going to have pedals, a steering wheel and even facet mirrors. The Cybercab’s manufacturing course of, he defined, is vastly completely different from typical automotive manufacturing and is extra corresponding to telephone manufacturing. That’s why he thinks the corporate will have the ability to produce one unit each 10 seconds.

Musk additionally talked in regards to the flying automotive he teased on Joe Rogan’s show. When requested on the occasion, he stated the demo will now happen on April 1, 2026, as a substitute of this month or the subsequent like he informed Rogan. It stays to be seen whether or not we’re going to get April Fooled, however Musk claimed that manufacturing of Tesla’s flying car will occur a 12 months or so after its unveiling. As all the time, take Musk’s claims with a grain of salt, as he’s fairly notorious for being overly formidable together with his timelines.

Whereas Musk was on stage speaking about Tesla’s plans, an Optimus humanoid robotic was standing by the facet. The CEO stated Optimus is certain to change into the “largest product of all time,” greater than cellphones, “greater than something.” Tesla will begin with a 1-million manufacturing line after which a 10-million manufacturing line, however he stated the corporate expects to finally produce 100 million to a billion Optimus robots a 12 months. He envisions a world whereby the humanoid machines will present folks with medical care… in addition to a world whereby as a substitute of being jailed, Optimus follows criminals round to cease them from committing extra crimes.

Earlier than Musk went on stage, Tesla’s shareholders had voted to approve his pay bundle price as much as $1 trillion over the subsequent 10 years. Tesla has to hit a number of objectives for Musk to change into the primary trillionaire, although, together with reaching a market worth of $8.5 trillion from its present price of $1.4 billion and promoting one million Optimus robots.