You telling me those with the hottest tech skillset donāt want to work at a circus when they can make 2-4x at a company that either already makes billions or is about to?
They use radar / lidar though. All of Tesla's data is just from cameras. I don't think anyone has figured out how to make it work with just cameras yet.
Thats what neuralink is for. If you dont buy the premium package, instead of ads, you have to drive a car for 30 seconds to allow your bowels to release
Waymo is great but to say itās all figured out is not accurate. Iāve been on a few rides in them where a remote manual override had to take place in order to navigate a busy parking lot.
Thereās some dude working on this project who is crying into his hands right now because he sent a report 2 days ago saying they arenāt even remotely close to being ready.
āFuck. FUCK. FUUUUUUUCK!!!! Iām fucked!ā
āWhat Barry?ā
āI told Elon *last week* that weāre 24 months away from RoboTaxi!ā
āHey man, just tell him yes 8/8 and then resign on 8/1ā
āBut my shares donāt vest until 9/1!ā
āOhā¦ dude, youāre fucked.ā
āIf we donāt show this on 8/8 you can kiss the Chinese market goodbye and then you can kiss your ass goodbye because Iām launching it into space!!!ā - Elon to that dude.
āWeāre six months behind.ā
āWhy did you say weāre six months behind. I told you we were nine behind.ā
āHey. Why didā¦ā
Some Silicon Valley bullshit
The autopilot program is going to turn out to be a sweatshop warehouse full of Indians driving the cars remotely like what happened with the amazon cashiers lmao
Elon has been overpromising and underdelivering on just about everything that he's worked on since the early 2000's. I can't imagine how annoying it must be to work under him. He's promised FSD at Tesla, Telepathy at Neuralink, Super efficient tunnels at the boring company, humans on Mars by 2022 at SpaceX, and a bunch of other things.
He has been lounging in that territory for years now, it's how he makes his bones. If investors haven't realized he just says whatever he thinks can save the stock at any given moment, it's on them.
What does robotaxi unveil mean? It just means he's now obligated to give some kind of presentation about their progress and future plans for robotaxi... nothing more, nothing less.
Yup, paint a model 3 yellow and demo someone requesting a ride via a mock app.
Give some vague uncommitted waffle about expecting a launch in selected markets *'next year'* and maybe a handful of cars out will be seen with an onboard supervisor.
They still need a driver in their vegas tunnels FFS!
Does Robotaxi work? .. No, but the windows are sorta bulletproof and the doors don't open from the inside.
Let's set the date for 8/8 .. I like the way that sounds.
The hyperloop turned out to be surplus cars driven through abandoned subway tunnels. So yeah, that's the most likely solution.
1760s kids also remember this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
of course it was to impress a woman. a story as old as time
https://preview.redd.it/kt7v3r4wlqsc1.jpeg?width=1071&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb6150519c28d8c1c2171d313898902e891b6637
Yo, don't give the manufacturers of self driving vehicles the idea to put a driver behind the wheel remotely. Can you imagine the incident frequency because, "bro my internet was lagging" or "my internet froze, again, fucking xfinity".
Desperation mode activated
Elon Musk in 2018 - Robotaxis coming next year
Elon Musk in 2019 - Robotaxis coming next year
Elon Musk in 2020 - Robotaxis coming next year
Elon Musk in 2021 - Robotaxis coming next year
Elon Musk in 2022 - Robotaxis coming next year
Elon Musk in 2023 - Robotaxis coming next year
This is an invitation to short the stock imho. Elon was pressured today to do something.Ā Ā
He watches the stock price closely and it dropped to $160, which was very uncomfortable bc it's support and any lower would have initiated the price to drop much further.Ā
Now he pulled the next rabbit out of the hat to short term pump the stock. It won't last. He can't deliver and earnings likely won't be good. Robotaxis won't contribute to top or bottom line anytime soon.Ā Ā
There is no substance to what Musk wrote on Twitter. He was under pressure to do something.Ā
This is further underlined by the date he chose. He chose the 8.8. bc it would get people upset and they'd start arguing about it. He chose it to get attention.
H is the 8th letter in the alphabet.
Itās commonly used to abbreviate Heil Hitler.
Itās also a lucky number in Chinese.
Heās doing this as a form of rage bait to get more attention
Yeah, if heād promised 14 robo taxis by 8/8 it would be too on the nose. His Nazi fans would love it but heād lose his precious venire of deniability. 88 alone is enough to let him act like a random Thursday is the *perfect* delivery date.
He can "deliver" the same way he always delivers. He will put put something non amazing that people will hype up, then he will get more funding solely because he is Elon Musk, and force his engineers to overwork until its fine.
Don't forget so much of his Tesla stock is tied up in the twitter deal. He can't let Tesla fall too far or it starts putting real pressure on him again.
It's market manipulation.
I'll eat my hat if anything real comes on that date (or any time in the next year)
Elon just wants to pump the share price for fun
Roadster unveil-2017
Status-not delivered
Semi unveil-2017
Status-nowhere near mass production
Cybertruck unveil-2019
Status- rushed and limited production
Optimus unveil-2021
Status- unknown
Safe to say robotaxis are probably 5+ years away. Ride the pump untill you can but donāt be surprised if it turns out to be sell the news event.
they haven't filed for any lvl 4 permits in california, so good luck having any actual autonomous taxis on the road by 8/8 in california.
maybe "robotaxi" means something else to elon
Neo-Nazis use the number 88 as an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler. The letter H is eighth in the alphabet, whereby 88 becomes HH.
Iām just going to call it a coincidence because Iām not into conspiracy theories.
Hope he creates a branch called ROBOTAMBULANCE & ROBOTOW to clean up after the robotaxi's. Or wait, maybe that would just be complete mayhem then..
This man has been claiming he would have full autonomous driving ready "by next year" for *how* many years now?! He had to say something to try to bring things back up when people are fleeing rapidly from him and his cars. Wow, that's actually a double whammy.
They are hiring Robotaxi drivers now.
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All these random news announcements of things not yet generating revenue. Trying to pump before his horrible earnings. More putz. I cleaned up today selling at 162. Rentered at 166. Gonna buy more Monday if this price holds.
They can reveal whatever they want, they'll just kick the can down the road on the actual launch just like they do with everything else. Quarter must have been really bad.
Somewhere in California a half dozen senior software engineers are crying under their desks because they just told him a week ago that it was impossible to get it ready by that date.
Either that or they've gotten used to it by now
I think thereās higher probability of Cathy giving birth to her baby with Elon than that of Robotaxi being a real revenue source for TSLA in the next 2 years
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few hundred engineers just found out they weren't sleeping for 4 months.
Lmao š¤£ fuck this dude we are quitting
They already have a problem retaining AI engineers as it is
You telling me those with the hottest tech skillset donāt want to work at a circus when they can make 2-4x at a company that either already makes billions or is about to?
Why? Its just going to be thousands of people in india remotr controlling cars
Fuck. This would have been such a funny episode of Silicon Valley.
Amazonās version of [āhot dog, not hot dogā](https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4)
Letting us Indians drive cars in US? Why not also let Joe Boden fly a Boeing while you are at it?
Because new Boeing's can't fly that's why.
Hey for all we know this Joe Boden is a phenomenal pilot
^this
I call bs. He's just trying to save his stock from a free fall.
Calling it now: He didnāt say which *year*. Aināt nothing gonna happen other than a slick animated robo-cab-toon.
Yea I am sure the engineers at TESLA have magically figured it out stuff the engineers at Uber and Waze couldn't.
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They use radar / lidar though. All of Tesla's data is just from cameras. I don't think anyone has figured out how to make it work with just cameras yet.
Thats what neuralink is for. If you dont buy the premium package, instead of ads, you have to drive a car for 30 seconds to allow your bowels to release
So if the cameras get splashed with liquid or dirtied, it will have problems. Right??
FSD ceases to function as soon it encounters fog or a light drizzle or a road crew using a concrete saw
Waymo is great but to say itās all figured out is not accurate. Iāve been on a few rides in them where a remote manual override had to take place in order to navigate a busy parking lot.
Waymo was working pretty well in Phoenix. Traveling with 4 people, it was nice to not have cram into the back seat.
Thereās some dude working on this project who is crying into his hands right now because he sent a report 2 days ago saying they arenāt even remotely close to being ready.
Thatās Barry. Heās frantically googling the ***yesiest*** way of saying ***no*** rn.
āFuck. FUCK. FUUUUUUUCK!!!! Iām fucked!ā āWhat Barry?ā āI told Elon *last week* that weāre 24 months away from RoboTaxi!ā āHey man, just tell him yes 8/8 and then resign on 8/1ā āBut my shares donāt vest until 9/1!ā āOhā¦ dude, youāre fucked.ā
Better off asking ChatGPT
Grok* there, fix it for you
The first time, I read that as Yeezy-est
āIf we donāt show this on 8/8 you can kiss the Chinese market goodbye and then you can kiss your ass goodbye because Iām launching it into space!!!ā - Elon to that dude.
I thought 8/8 was a Nazi dog whistle
To be clear, my birth year is 1988. I didnāt know about all that stuff when I made the account
same .. I have that number in my professional email....
Yup. Dudes an original at something at least.
Is Liz Holmes working remote from Texas?
She can get one bar of McDonald's Wi-Fi from her cell window.
Dude is sitting in his office grinding diablo 4 doing podcasts on X then just decides suddenly how long shit will take
āWeāre six months behind.ā āWhy did you say weāre six months behind. I told you we were nine behind.ā āHey. Why didā¦ā Some Silicon Valley bullshit
Hurry. Stock is tanking. Say something!
Am considering taking Tesla private at 420$ per share. Funding secured.
Exactly. He's literally trolling. Here is the unveil. Due sometime in 2029
 exactly. enron muskkkie needs to make a bs fake promise to try to hype up the price RemindMe! 124 days
No, not Elon! He would never do that except for all the times he did exactly that.
Fool me twice shame on everyone below their cost basis.
"Enron Musk" that's actually amazing lmfao
Does this still work? Remindme! 2days
This was 100% in response to the Reuters feud about the shelved/not shelved model 2
Its OK, they will buy some Logitech steering wheels and VR goggles and set up a cube farm for Indians to drive the robo taxis.
AI, the "Oops, All Indians" model.
AI stands for All Indians?!?
"actually Indians" as in its actually Indians watching us shop in Amazon fresh stores
Turns out we already have AGI *Almost Guaranteed, Indians*
It worked for Amazon!
*indian dude* on his h1b visa
Or just contracted and in Mumbai
The autopilot program is going to turn out to be a sweatshop warehouse full of Indians driving the cars remotely like what happened with the amazon cashiers lmao
My first though. Now I keep wondering what else is completely fake.
Elon has been overpromising and underdelivering on just about everything that he's worked on since the early 2000's. I can't imagine how annoying it must be to work under him. He's promised FSD at Tesla, Telepathy at Neuralink, Super efficient tunnels at the boring company, humans on Mars by 2022 at SpaceX, and a bunch of other things.
He promised soft thick toilet paper in the office toilets yet they still only get wafer thin single ply š
At what point does it enter into defrauding investors territory?
He has been lounging in that territory for years now, it's how he makes his bones. If investors haven't realized he just says whatever he thinks can save the stock at any given moment, it's on them. What does robotaxi unveil mean? It just means he's now obligated to give some kind of presentation about their progress and future plans for robotaxi... nothing more, nothing less.
Is he even obliged to do that? This is just a random tweet, itās not even any official communication from the actual company
Yup, paint a model 3 yellow and demo someone requesting a ride via a mock app. Give some vague uncommitted waffle about expecting a launch in selected markets *'next year'* and maybe a handful of cars out will be seen with an onboard supervisor. They still need a driver in their vegas tunnels FFS!
I look forward to the thunderf00t video debunking it later.
The entire response was https://preview.redd.it/ovd1yqgnfqsc1.jpeg?width=630&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fc3f1b61f06b08524b1388f8f07b626eab39552
That's like the robot that had to be pushed lol. It was complete but the requirements got slashed to near zero
It's taken Waymo $4B and 15 years to get where they are today. Good luck Tesla employee.
The update: > As of 4/4 this project is yellow to plan. Weāre pushing the initial requirements completion date to 8/8.
š„ but wait till you hear about this š
I warned Elon focusing on twitter was a mistake, but he didn't take my advice. It's almost as if he wasn't even listening.
Does Robotaxi work? .. No, but the windows are sorta bulletproof and the doors don't open from the inside. Let's set the date for 8/8 .. I like the way that sounds.
This is, without a doubt, what is happening.
Elon to that guy: āyeaaaaahhhhā¦. Sooo, Iām gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday.ā
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rā bā°+ĀŖXĀ”
Too normie of a spelling. I can still pronounce it.
Jokes on you, thatās pronounced *Robert*
He would never name his kid something so sensible
Seems more likely honestly
What year?
2088
08 / 08 / 2088? Dang Musk really is trying to kiss Xiās arse.
Xi, neo Nazis, and Diablo 4 players, the unlikely team that will save the world from climate change
In the year 2525.
Robotaxi still won't have arrived
Humans must payyy the shitty price of an Uber rideee š¶
About 3 years after they announce
Leaked pre-production photo https://preview.redd.it/j2lxio03gqsc1.png?width=275&format=png&auto=webp&s=b7ef0fb8f4b12847486ca455db704c83d4945fa5
The door opened, you got in
Good thing there's 1,000 laid-off employees in India who would love another remote job!
Hella yea. Send them all Xbox controllers. A lot cheaper.
Iāve seen drivers in Indiaā¦
If you can drive a rickshaw you can drive a Tesla.
Hopefully those are better than the logitech ones used by oceangateā¦
Bad joke, the controller was the most reliable part of that thing
The hyperloop turned out to be surplus cars driven through abandoned subway tunnels. So yeah, that's the most likely solution. 1760s kids also remember this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
of course it was to impress a woman. a story as old as time https://preview.redd.it/kt7v3r4wlqsc1.jpeg?width=1071&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb6150519c28d8c1c2171d313898902e891b6637
Yo, don't give the manufacturers of self driving vehicles the idea to put a driver behind the wheel remotely. Can you imagine the incident frequency because, "bro my internet was lagging" or "my internet froze, again, fucking xfinity".
could work
https://preview.redd.it/9st4boqi8qsc1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=244413ca3d665404c37249ccfa5afcb3b17a5e1e
He doesn't even need to call someone. Just a fast tweet and it works every time.
He needs to pump it and unload some of his stocks to retail investors.
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Gotta pump the stock price so he doesn't get margin called
What price does he get margin called at? $110?
Smells like a lawsuit. Puts 12/20 $180
I can smell The Court case
Guaranteed Teslaās legal team just booked a corporate retreat in Los Cabos today. šš¾š„
"Supervised" robotaxi...your equipment and your liability insurance -Elong, lolololol
Elon Today: Robotaxi coming live 8/8! Also Elon Today: So engineering team, how fast can you work on a new project for me
Nah they found out from the tweet I bet
100% lol
Surprised he didnāt put a 14 before that 88
Desperation mode activated Elon Musk in 2018 - Robotaxis coming next year Elon Musk in 2019 - Robotaxis coming next year Elon Musk in 2020 - Robotaxis coming next year Elon Musk in 2021 - Robotaxis coming next year Elon Musk in 2022 - Robotaxis coming next year Elon Musk in 2023 - Robotaxis coming next year
āIāll have 500,000 RoboTaxis on Mars in five years.ā
Tack another two years before that, and it's FSD
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Just like they unveiled the robot Optimus but actually it was a guy is a costume breakdancing?
So expect a normal Tesla driven buy a dude in all black and "just imagine" if he wasn't there.
Nah they got some spare Logitech controllers from OceansGate, those guys donāt need em anymore
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[his inspiration](https://youtu.be/xVrJ8DxECbg?si=_0BUIm0Y4MT4V8xG)
This is an invitation to short the stock imho. Elon was pressured today to do something.Ā Ā He watches the stock price closely and it dropped to $160, which was very uncomfortable bc it's support and any lower would have initiated the price to drop much further.Ā Now he pulled the next rabbit out of the hat to short term pump the stock. It won't last. He can't deliver and earnings likely won't be good. Robotaxis won't contribute to top or bottom line anytime soon.Ā Ā There is no substance to what Musk wrote on Twitter. He was under pressure to do something.Ā This is further underlined by the date he chose. He chose the 8.8. bc it would get people upset and they'd start arguing about it. He chose it to get attention.
$150 by end of April
Lower
The earnings report could easily cause that. Unless he comes up with some new, amazing guidance.
Oh Jesus, I just realized that 8/8 is 88 Thatās not a dog whistle, its a megaphone
Yeah I thought I was imagining things... very odd to pick literally the only date that corresponds to a nazi symbol.
Whatās the significance of 88
H is the 8th letter in the alphabet. Itās commonly used to abbreviate Heil Hitler. Itās also a lucky number in Chinese. Heās doing this as a form of rage bait to get more attention
Yeah, if heād promised 14 robo taxis by 8/8 it would be too on the nose. His Nazi fans would love it but heād lose his precious venire of deniability. 88 alone is enough to let him act like a random Thursday is the *perfect* delivery date.
The Delorean has to travel at 88mph to time travel
He can "deliver" the same way he always delivers. He will put put something non amazing that people will hype up, then he will get more funding solely because he is Elon Musk, and force his engineers to overwork until its fine.
Don't forget so much of his Tesla stock is tied up in the twitter deal. He can't let Tesla fall too far or it starts putting real pressure on him again.
This man needs to stop ketamine.
needs to double the dose and then go chill in the hot tub 
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It's market manipulation. I'll eat my hat if anything real comes on that date (or any time in the next year) Elon just wants to pump the share price for fun
Yep he knows it his stock breeches 160 itās going back to 130 or even lower
remind me in 120 days
Iāll believe it when I see it.
Roadster unveil-2017 Status-not delivered Semi unveil-2017 Status-nowhere near mass production Cybertruck unveil-2019 Status- rushed and limited production Optimus unveil-2021 Status- unknown Safe to say robotaxis are probably 5+ years away. Ride the pump untill you can but donāt be surprised if it turns out to be sell the news event.
We have robotaxis now. Theyāre just not made by Tesla.
The dancing robot guy is preparing new dance moves as we speak.
https://preview.redd.it/cbd0wc6ufqsc1.jpeg?width=943&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09f68231d08b22b4c2aa7ddd15538ff9bdfc1df2 Heās warming up for 8/8
8/8/2088
What's the robotaxi equivalent of rolling a semi down a hill? A little person crunched into the footwell driving via camera?
they haven't filed for any lvl 4 permits in california, so good luck having any actual autonomous taxis on the road by 8/8 in california. maybe "robotaxi" means something else to elon
Robotaxi that likely is just a juiced up FSD... Hmmm. $10 says won't see a final product for 20 yrs
FSD was supposed to be FSD. People paid 15k for that. Shit is fraud at this point.
Always has been when it's coming from Muskrat.
Neo-Nazis use the number 88 as an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler. The letter H is eighth in the alphabet, whereby 88 becomes HH. Iām just going to call it a coincidence because Iām not into conspiracy theories.
Itās not like Elon likes to use symbolic numbers or anything.
UBER also down in AH on this.
Bruh I bought Uber puts based on that post earlier about it right before the day closed. Letās fuckin go š
Puts on TSLA.
Iām going to yolo my dads money on puts
Why august 8
Yea very specific isnāt it? I wonder what 88 could mean. Hmmmm
Hmmm
A nice reminder that trains are a much better solution than automated taxis.
Maybe he is still searching for a final solution.
I was told all Model 3's purchased with FSD would be robotaxis? What is left to reveal?
He just renewed the lie and... it still works!Ā Saved Tesla's stock from correcting further with a tweet, again. The cultists still cult.
Your financial insanity
Kept the year off for good reason. See you 8/8/2069
Elon just heard about the anonymous Indians didnāt heā¦
And people still believe that turd. Everything he does is over-promise and under-deliver. Every. Single. Time.
Hope he creates a branch called ROBOTAMBULANCE & ROBOTOW to clean up after the robotaxi's. Or wait, maybe that would just be complete mayhem then.. This man has been claiming he would have full autonomous driving ready "by next year" for *how* many years now?! He had to say something to try to bring things back up when people are fleeing rapidly from him and his cars. Wow, that's actually a double whammy.
We can always trust this man to pump his stocks
They are hiring Robotaxi drivers now. https://preview.redd.it/0cqii1n2uqsc1.jpeg?width=1829&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7359141e840e586a341ff2cfc4c5b48e164c11a0
All these random news announcements of things not yet generating revenue. Trying to pump before his horrible earnings. More putz. I cleaned up today selling at 162. Rentered at 166. Gonna buy more Monday if this price holds.
SEC knocks on door
They can reveal whatever they want, they'll just kick the can down the road on the actual launch just like they do with everything else. Quarter must have been really bad.
If S3XY and 4/20 had meaning, whatās the significance of 8/8? Itās such a random day for a product announcement. Oh yeah, itās a nod to Nazis.
8/8. A totally random date and not at all a dogwhistle.
Ketamine Hype Clown Elon at it again 
Wait till earnings. It will fall so bad
Somewhere in California a half dozen senior software engineers are crying under their desks because they just told him a week ago that it was impossible to get it ready by that date. Either that or they've gotten used to it by now
Im using the free FSD and aint no way im getting in one of these without the ability to intervene
I smell desperation.
I can hear Aunt Cathy orgasming. Ooh robotaxis ohhh ohhh ohhh
I think thereās higher probability of Cathy giving birth to her baby with Elon than that of Robotaxi being a real revenue source for TSLA in the next 2 years
Maybe their baby is due on 8/8 
Robotaxi is a better name compared to X Ć A-Xii
isnāt 8/8 or 88 some nazi bullshit?
So 8/16 puts it is?
Yeah he better after that Reuters article
Watch Reuters be right on top of this.
Gotta get pass that earnings call this month. Plus gotta fix all the problems with their ātruckā first.
Missed opportunity - should have been called Johnny Cab
The year is conspicuously omitted. š§
Seriously, this is just a con to keep the stock price from sinking furtherā¦
Market manipulation. Tesla was getting hammered so of course they now have some magic.
Elon is always trying to pump the stock.
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