After an unhappy and hasty closure of the political career, Elon Musk Back on the track with his Teslaindeed with the robotaxi service operated with a model y in Austin in Texas. A dream that the US entrepreneur had been cradling for some time and that it is party in testing nElla on Sunday. And it can be said that Wall Street appreciated, rewarding the Tesla actions with a nice rally.
Tesla rid of about 10%
The Tesla title, listed on Nasdaq, is arrived to earn about 10% During the exchanges in Wall Street, and then close under the maximums reached at $ 348.68, up 8.23%. A brilliant performance after a gray period, which saw Tesla lose positions between the magnificent 7. Year to date The title is still in Down 13%. But the capitalization has returned above billion dollars.
The Robotaxi service debuts in Austin
Tesla’s robotaxi model y finally took to the track last weekend, debuting with autonomous runs in Austin, Texas, and opening the service to a limited number of users by invitation. Among the guests there were a longtime fans of Tesla, promoters and shareholders. The first “customers” was charged Fixed rate of 4.20 dollari a racing.
“Super congratulations to the software design teams and Tesla_ai chips for the success of the launch of Robotaxi !!”, wrote in a post Elon Musk, adding that the launch of the service represents “The culmination of a decade of hard work”.
A long -awaited service
Musk had for some time promised investors the debut of a fleet of robotaxi Tesla, for fill the distance with the competitors as Waymo of Alphabet and the most fierce Chinese competitors, including Apollo Go, Weride and Pony.ai di Baidu. Waymo said he had reached over 250,000 commercial -free commercial runs per week and that he had exceeded 10 million trips last month, while Apollo Go passed 11 million trips.
Last month Musk announced that Tesla aims to have “hundreds of thousands, if no more than a million” autonomously guidance in the United States by the end of next year. In May, Musk for the first time announced the intention of launching the service to Austin, with subsequent debuts scheduled in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Concerns for security
Despite the success flared by Musk and his supporters and collaborators, they remain Strong doubts about security. Someone claimed to have seen the robotaxi Tesla violates the highway code e Proceed briefly in the wrong direction on a road in Austin, or braking in the traffic. In the recent past, Tesla driving assistance technology has been the subject of various federal investigations on safety and two calls for the question of sudden braking and without reason is clashes with still objects and emergency vehicles.
