Tesla's "WE, ROBOT" Technology Day conference was held under the spotlight, after Musk was tight-lipped about the information that would be displayed in the live broadcast of the conference, and threw out the extreme wording of "This will be a day that will go down in history", which really whetted everyone's appetite. However, after watching the live broadcast of Tesla's press conference throughout the whole process, Uncle Che only had two words to feel most directly: That's it?
First of all, let's review the process of the press conference, which was originally scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Beijing time on October 11, but due to the fainting of people at the scene, the press conference was postponed for nearly an hour, and it was not officially opened until 10:53. Then Tesla's soul Musk entered the scene in Tesla's new product cybercab, which is quite similar to the Robotaxi renderings previously circulated on the Internet, with a simple design of the whole vehicle, with gullwing doors, no steering wheel and pedals in the car, and only a central control display. Second, Tesla unveiled Robovan, a car similar to the Super Limo, Tesla's largest urban commuting solution to date, with more than 10 seats in the car, and even a football team. In the end, Tesla's robots and robots also went through the motions.
Robotaxi(cybercab)
Robotaxi, tentatively named cybercab, is undoubtedly the top priority of Tesla's conference. Musk has painted a cake for fully unmanned autonomous driving many times before, and the success of cybercab will be directly related to whether Tesla can become an AI robot company.
Summarizing the information introduced by Musk, the Cybercab has three key points, one of which is that the car has no steering wheel and pedals at all, which reflects Tesla's confidence in fully self-driving technology. Second, the car is expected to end up selling for no more than $30,000, which is an attractive price for a fully autonomous vehicle. Finally, users can not only ride, but also buy. At the same time, Musk also said that the original intention of Robotaxi design is to solve two major current problems, one is that the existing FSD technology still needs human supervision, and the other is that the cost of vehicles is too high. With this car, Tesla hopes to achieve autonomous driving without human intervention while reducing travel costs.
Personally, I think that the new pie drawn by Musk is likely to fail to satisfy domestic car consumers with more and more tricky tastes. At present, domestic giants have made great progress in the field of intelligent driving, for example, Baidu's radish run has been in Wuhan, Beijing, Guangzhou and other cities to carry out trial operation or commercial operation. At present, the carrot run has evolved to the background supervision, to the extent that there is no driver in the car, and the steering wheel and brake pedal in the car are just decorations. On the other hand, the mass production of Tesla's Robotaxi is expected to wait until 2026, and if you want to get the domestic operation qualification, you don't know that it is the Year of the Monkey, and the progress is half a beat slower. In addition, there is a question mark over whether the price and time promised by Musk can be realized as scheduled, and there are many variables.
Robovan
Robovan is the only one of the two products at the event, a fully autonomous van car that can accommodate up to 20 people in the car, and is likely to play a vital role in the field of shared mobility in the future. In addition, Robovan can not only carry people, but also has a certain cargo capacity, which means that the car has the potential to become an important tool for logistics and transportation in the future.
Compared to Robotaxi, robovan does not make too many technical disclosures, but its potential cannot be ignored. Of course, in the end, it depends on the time of mass production of the real car, PPT We believe in Musk, but I am afraid that the real car will have to wait for a long, long time.
Optimus
Finally, it came to the fixed link at Tesla's press conference, the robot army. This time, Tesla launched a humanoid robot product - Optimus, at the scene, the humanoid robot distributed gifts, poured wine for the guests and jumped and other performances, I have to say that the effect is very explosive.
Musk said that Optimus will be the most important product in Tesla's history and will usher in an era. At the same time, Musk also introduced that the price of Optimus will be between 2~30,000 US dollars, and said that the robot can help users with household chores and can even become a friend of users. Personally, I think Musk's vision is full of temptation and futurism, but whether it can be mass-produced and popularized in the short term is not a small challenge. Because at present, the transformation of robots from concept to substance not only requires technological breakthroughs, but also needs extensive market recognition and acceptance, as well as the improvement of relevant legal ethics, in which the resistance is not small.
Uncle Che concluded
On the whole, the content presented by Tesla's press conference is far from the slogan that has gone down in history. In contrast, the main product Cybercab is still in the experimental stage, and it is far from the final commercialization, as a comparison, the Carrot Express has provided more than 7 million services, and the sixth-generation model has achieved acceleration, with 74,000 people served per week. Secondly, Robovan is basically an enlarged version of cybercab, and although it has more potential than the former, it has the same problems as the former, and the information exposed is more limited. In the end, humanoid robots are still more gimmicky, which doesn't make much sense at the moment. What's more critical is that the low-cost killer features such as the Tesla Model 2, which users are most looking forward to, have not been revealed, which is a big disappointment. There will always be enough to eat the pie one day, and if you want to continue to lead the development of the circle, Tesla has to come up with some hard dishes.