Elon Musk announces Tesla will unveil a 'robotaxi' on August 8

Got a friend who has been an early Tesla booster. He has managed to receive early betas of the software. He made a statement to us that Tesla had finally achieved fully autonomous driving. I was a bit skeptical but he said wait and see, its happening this year.

Now with this announcement I concede that he may have seen the future. Course with Musk's record of delivery it may well be 2025 before we see full remote driving but that's still better than the SF zeitgeist thinks it will happen.

He "unveiled" 90% autonomous driving over a decade ago and has produced a continuous stream of "unveils" ever since.

I see no reason to believe this "unveil" will be any different than all the other "unveils".

I've been watching the Whole Mars Catalog channel on Youtube for a while ( https://www.youtube.com/@WholeMars/videos ), he's been trying out FSD beta versions for some time now and posting the unedited drive videos, and recently I've seen the results he's getting with 12.3.3 are substantially better than v11 from last year. I do think it's at the threshold of robotaxi capability from what I've seen there, very little if any intervention for long drives through the city dealing with construction, stopped delivery vehicles, jaywalkers, etc.

Chances are it'll be a man dressed as a robotaxi.

Cool, then I might buy one as a non driving license holder

I mean, define 'unveil'.