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

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

To notice, Tesla’s FSD is at present able to degree 2 autonomous driving. Musk is promising not less than a degree 4 functionality, wherein the motive force may be disengaged because the automobile performs all driving duties for them, inside a brief span of time. Whereas he mentioned that Tesla will have a look at its security knowledge 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 concerning the Cybercab, Musk mentioned manufacturing of the robotaxis will start by April subsequent 12 months. Since it is going to be particularly constructed with autonomy in thoughts, it won’t have pedals, a steering wheel and even aspect mirrors. The Cybercab’s manufacturing course of, he defined, is vastly totally different from typical automobile manufacturing and is extra corresponding to cellphone manufacturing. That’s why he thinks the corporate will be capable of produce one unit each 10 seconds.

Musk additionally talked concerning the flying automobile he teased on Joe Rogan’s show. When requested on the occasion, he mentioned the demo will now happen on April 1, 2026, as an alternative 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 bold along with his timelines.

Whereas Musk was on stage speaking about Tesla’s plans, an Optimus humanoid robotic was standing by the aspect. The CEO mentioned Optimus is sure to turn into the “largest product of all time,” larger than cellphones, “larger than something.” Tesla will begin with a 1-million manufacturing line after which a 10-million manufacturing line, however he mentioned the corporate expects to ultimately produce 100 million to a billion Optimus robots a 12 months. He envisions a world whereby the humanoid machines will present individuals with medical care… in addition to a world whereby as an alternative 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 turn 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 1,000,000 Optimus robots.