Elon musk promises a million "robotaxis" for next year

Elon Musk, current executive director of Tesla, assured last Monday during an event for investors whose duration reached three hours, which will put into circulation a million autonomous taxis (without driver or "robotaxis") in 2020 in the United States.

And in two years, Tesla will have vehicles without pedals or steering wheel

During last Monday's event, held at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, Elon Musk unveiled a new chip developed for autonomous driving cars with which he plans to take the lead on his main rivals in the sector, Waymo and Uber. Incidentally, this chip has been developed by Samsung Electronics, and according to Musk, the risk of failure of the new chip is less than when someone falls asleep while driving.

If any part of this computer fails, the car continues to run. The danger of something going wrong is less than if someone falls asleep at the wheel. The question is how it is possible that Tesla has designed the best chip in the world. That is what has happened, "said Elon Musk.

Currently, always according to Musk, all cars manufactured by Tesla have this chip that is compatible with autonomous driving; the only thing necessary is to implement the necessary software updates for this. Thus, "in a year we will have a million cars with full autonomous driving capacity." Despite this, he acknowledges that they must have the necessary licenses, although he was optimistic about it.

Such is the optimism of Musk who stated that buying any vehicle that is not a Tesla is like "buying a horse": "The fundamental message that consumers should take away today is that it is financial madness to buy any car that is not a Tesla" he sentenced.

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