Robotaxi wasn’t even real anyways. They had closed, specially designed streets, and IIRC, still had remote human operators on standby supervising.
What Tesla (or any EV manufacturer) needs to make is an electric city bus.
Low speed is better for EVs, stop and go doesn’t really matter. Instant torque makes them easier to drive. Quiet operation reduces sound in in cities. They have dedicated bus garages to charge at, and they would cost less in energy and repairs that conventional ICE options.
The only big downside I can think of is weight. Busses are already a huge impact on street maintenance, making them 50% heavier might push them over the limit. Smaller more frequent busses are better for the customer if you ask me.
I think perfect example is the Hyperloop[1] in Las Vegas. How people are expecting them to implement FSD if they can’t do it in such fully controlled environment?
[1] also looks like most people forgot it originally was meant to use vacuum to move a tube with passengers, not a tunnel for cars
They just need to integrate like China and sell an open source EV.
Even before e-bikes were serious over a decade ago, the problem with buses is the limited bike capacity. That is what got me doing major commuting. The bus would show up with 3 bikes already on the rack and I could wait 30 minutes for it to happen again or just go for it on the bike. I was faster than a 2 bus route for 20 miles so I just started riding all the time.
If you really want to change the world, design the whole system around the e-bike so that it is easy to do a hub and spoke type transit that is optimised for no more than 1/8th of a charge on the average e-bike between any common destination and a hub. Make human transport secondary to e-bike transport. Like design a double decker where the entire side of the bottom of the bus is open and can be filled with a few dozen bikes while loading a dozen or more at one time.
Robotaxi wasn’t even real anyways. They had closed, specially designed streets, and IIRC, still had remote human operators on standby supervising.
What Tesla (or any EV manufacturer) needs to make is an electric city bus.
Low speed is better for EVs, stop and go doesn’t really matter. Instant torque makes them easier to drive. Quiet operation reduces sound in in cities. They have dedicated bus garages to charge at, and they would cost less in energy and repairs that conventional ICE options.
The only big downside I can think of is weight. Busses are already a huge impact on street maintenance, making them 50% heavier might push them over the limit. Smaller more frequent busses are better for the customer if you ask me.
I think perfect example is the Hyperloop[1] in Las Vegas. How people are expecting them to implement FSD if they can’t do it in such fully controlled environment?
[1] also looks like most people forgot it originally was meant to use vacuum to move a tube with passengers, not a tunnel for cars
They just need to integrate like China and sell an open source EV.
Even before e-bikes were serious over a decade ago, the problem with buses is the limited bike capacity. That is what got me doing major commuting. The bus would show up with 3 bikes already on the rack and I could wait 30 minutes for it to happen again or just go for it on the bike. I was faster than a 2 bus route for 20 miles so I just started riding all the time.
If you really want to change the world, design the whole system around the e-bike so that it is easy to do a hub and spoke type transit that is optimised for no more than 1/8th of a charge on the average e-bike between any common destination and a hub. Make human transport secondary to e-bike transport. Like design a double decker where the entire side of the bottom of the bus is open and can be filled with a few dozen bikes while loading a dozen or more at one time.