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

Elon Musk went on stage on Thursday night time throughout Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting and made some large claims and guarantees. The corporate is “virtually comfy” letting homeowners with Full Self-Driving (FSD) “textual content and drive,” he stated. In the intervening time, 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 may 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 motive force might be disengaged because the automobile performs all driving duties for them, inside a brief span of time. Whereas he stated 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 in regards to the Cybercab, Musk stated manufacturing of the robotaxis will start by April subsequent yr. Since it is going to 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 automobile manufacturing and is extra akin to cellphone manufacturing. That’s why he thinks the corporate will be capable to produce one unit each 10 seconds.

Musk additionally talked in regards to the flying automobile 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 instructed 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 automobile will occur a yr 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 along 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 sure to grow to be the “greatest 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 yr. 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 package deal price as much as $1 trillion over the subsequent 10 years. Tesla has to hit a number of objectives for Musk to grow to be 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.