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I'm a bit sceptical about this. This guy was taking goverment and EU money promising self driving taxies fleet, he was supposed to deliver 2 years ago. China already has them cruising their street, Tesla also had some great success with self driving, yet from Rimac there is nothing, no progress, nothing to show.

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Tesla is promising self driving cars for years. Even to promised Coast-to-Coast drive we are still waiting for.

I mean, I think this makes the point in the original comment even more clear. It's easy to promise things. Be suspicious of any claims without physical evidence of the actual end result. That goes for Tesla, and any other company promising energy storage.

I see your point about Tesla overpromising, however at least tesla has put into production some level of autonomy, these guys sell vehicles without any kind of driver assistance. At the same time there wasn't any kind of show by Rimac of the autonomous driving tech thats capable of at least holding the car in the same lane on a semi straight road. I think Tesla and others are miles away from where Rimac is today.

>Even to promised Coast-to-Coast drive we are still waiting for.

Hasn't it be done already, with FSD (already accessible to hundreds of thousands of Tesla owners) and zero intervention?

IIRC, Tesla or Elon said the coast-to-coast thing is not a goal for the company anymore because they prefer to work the actual needs of the Tesla drivers, who bought and use the product already but don't do coast-to-coast. But FSD can definitely achieve this today (single stack for city and highway since v11.3), it's just a matter of reaching zero intervention (once or repeatedly).

There are so many zero-takeover drives published daily nowadays: https://www.youtube.com/@WholeMars/videos (some are 7h+ long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAwKf9HCHU)

He promised them for 2024, not 2 years ago.

Yeah I think chasing self-driving tech is a red herring for the company.

They're not so big that they can afford to pour a lot of money into it (and we've seen from Google, Uber and Tesla how slow the progress there is if you want a tech that works reliably in real life).

I hope they double down on what they're great at, and this announcement is a step in right direction (IMHO as an armchair analyst, I'm not in the industry).

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