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The bill finally comes due for Elon Musk

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On October 10th , Tesla will unveil its long-awaited “robotaxi,” a supposedly fully autonomous vehicle that Musk has said will catapult the company into trillion-dollar status.

The event, which will be held on the film lot of Warner Bros. in Burbank , California , will be the culmination of almost a decade of blown deadlines and broken promises from Musk .

No Tesla vehicle on the road today is autonomous.

Tesla likes to say that Autopilot — and later FSD — is saving lives.

Tesla is latching onto Waymo ’s better vision in unveiling a fully autonomous vehicle, the robotaxi.

Tesla says over 1 billion miles have been driven using FSD , but it's impossible to say how good or terrible FSD is.

Autopilot is supposed to be a precursor to the fully autonomous robotaxi.

Tesla used to publish quarterly safety reports that it would claim that it was safer than regular human driving — but it then stopped suddenly in 2022 .

Tesla 's approach to the hardware of driverless vehicles diverges from the rest of the industry.

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