Tesla will introduce its Robotaxi product on October 10. The event will be held at the Warner Bros. studio. in Burbank (California).
Initially, the presentation of Robotaxi was planned to be held in August. In addition to the date, the company also changed the usual place for such events, choosing a filming location north of Los Angeles.
In recent years, Tesla has been organizing presentations of new products on the territory of the “Gigafactory 5'' factory. in Texas Before this event, many years were held in the California city of Hawthorne, where the company was founded and where, as before, its design and development departments work. This time, Tesla chose a filming location that simulates the conditions of a typical American suburb.
Obviously, the company wants to demonstrate Robotaxi in conditions similar to those in which the new car will operate. This is not the first time that Tesla has organized an event in a Hollywood studio: in 2016, the company presented the Solar Roof (a roof with solar panels) at Universal Studios, on the set of the series “Desperate Housewives”.
Tesla has been working on a new fully self-driving car for several months. Little is known about the car so far. According to rumors, the new product will look like a Cybertruck, except that it will not have a steering wheel or pedals. The estimated cost of Robotaxi is $25,000.
The head of Tesla, Elon Musk, claims that the company has not given up on its plans to provide full autonomy to the machines it has been producing since 2016 through a software update. However, Tesla also decided to create a new car that was originally designed to be completely self-driving.