Tesla Robotaxi Event: First Look at NEW $30,000 Tesla

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00:00Last night Tesla unveiled some of their most ambitious projects yet with their robot event

00:05I got a chance to go to it to see the robots up close in the cyber cab and I want to take you guys along with

00:11Me and give you my thoughts on how realistic this stuff is how it's gonna change all of our futures

00:16And if you should be scared of these robots or not

00:18So welcome to the Warner Brothers lot

00:20This is where Tesla had the event and I quickly got the impression that this was not gonna be like other Tesla events

00:26They spent millions of dollars on this event

00:27I think they really want to impress shareholders and get people hyped up about what they're talking about

00:33So they went all out. So I'm on the Warner Brothers a lot

00:36I love how I was vlogging earlier today like Oh Tesla events, you know, they don't have food or anything

00:40So like got food before I know they've stepped it up this time guys. They've got pizza being freshly made

00:46This is like Disneyland in general

00:50I don't think people have been super optimistic about Tesla stock and such because you know

00:55They're not delivering as many cars because everyone who bought a one already bought one

00:58So this is their way of getting people hyped up on the future of Tesla again. We get in here

01:03There's this map and I already saw a sign that says to give feedback of your robo taxi ride after you take it

01:10So we're for sure getting robo taxi rides, which is gonna be super cool. I'm hype but check out this map

01:15It's like Tesla

01:18Disneyland, okay, so we've got Westworld, New York the Tesla theater

01:22So I think we're gonna be able to like ride around to all these different spots

01:27How crazy is this? Are we gonna see a robot though?

01:30I haven't seen one of the robots yet, but I have a feeling they might be around

01:34So now the exciting part when they actually announced stuff. So Elon first showed up in a cyber cab

01:40this is our first look at this thing and

01:42no one knew if there was gonna be a new car or if it was just going to be announcing that

01:47Existing cars would be able to be a part of the robo taxi fleet and it's actually both

01:52So they announced this new car, which is exciting because it's gonna be the cheapest Tesla ever

01:56They're aiming to make it under $30,000. Although it's only two seats. I really like the design

02:02They didn't go too crazy on this like they did with the cyber truck

02:05I feel like it's universally pretty well liked and you'll notice it has no steering wheel and no pedals

02:11So it is intended to be fully autonomous with no option to drive yourself and they did have them driving around

02:16But you have to remember this is a closed set. This is not a real city street

02:21I'll get into more details on my thoughts on this overall later

02:24But they announced two more cool things we need to talk about the first one being the optimist robots

02:28Which were in fact wandering around the event and we could interact with them

02:32They announced that these will cost between twenty and thirty thousand dollars and it can be your assistant or humanoid friend

02:39So it will be able to talk to you

02:40I do like the idea of this thing being able to clean for you

02:44They said it'll be able to walk your dog even take care of your kids and help them with your homework

02:48Which is kind of crazy

02:49I know people are very scared of this but Elon said there's an 80% chance that they won't turn on us

02:55So, I don't know. I feel like we need to be at a hundred percent. So similar to the cyber cab

03:00They're really showing the idea of this and a demonstration

03:03But it's not fully ready yet because when wandering around the event and talking to them

03:07It was clear that it's most likely someone remote connecting in and somebody was controlling these just listen to the way that it talks to me

03:14How's your night going good

03:17super cool seeing all this stuff is a little too good at talking that most people at the event figured that this was someone on a

03:23Speaker who was talking for the robot

03:34So again, these aren't quite ready yet

03:36But it is cool to see what they will be like one day and Elon even said that this will be the biggest product ever

03:42Of any kind so he thinks that this is going to transcend even the cars and the last new thing

03:47They announced was pretty unexpected. It was the robo van

03:50It's supposed to be a 20 seater van or you can take the seats out and just haul things around with it fully autonomous

03:57I thought it was cool that the seats face each other

03:59It's like a more futuristic sprinter van their goal with these is to get the cost of transportation down to 20 cents a mile

04:05Which would be crazy. I do think that this is gonna be a while until these actually come out. The design is really interesting

04:11It's kind of art deco inspired. It reminds me of a slug. Honestly, just the way that it's so low to the ground

04:17I mean, I think this will be a cool product when it eventually comes out but similar to the Tesla semi trucks

04:22I don't think this is gonna be a top priority

04:24So all of this is pretty exciting crazy stuff and some of it might scare you what I realized when interacting with it

04:31Is this stuff isn't quite ready yet?

04:33It's more of a vision for the future and it's gonna be you know

04:35A couple years at the earliest until we see this stuff in real life the cyber cab and the robo taxi service

04:41I think is top priority and gonna be the first thing that we see so I did get to go on a test drive

04:45Although I was disappointed because I waited for two hours and then they cut off the cyber cab drives

04:51But I did get to go on a test drive with the Model Y where nobody was in the driver's seat

04:55But honestly, this didn't feel that crazy to me because Waymo is already doing this on real city streets in LA

05:00So I'm like, okay

05:01I've kind of already experienced this before but on a real street and I gotta be honest Waymo is a lot less

05:07Jerky in the way that it drives

05:08I don't fully trust the Tesla full self-driving yet

05:11I do think they have a ways to go before it's gonna be ready to be fully autonomous on city street

05:16But obviously I'm rooting for them. I think that they will get there. It's just not quite there yet

05:20So Tesla low-key they've fallen behind on this actually know the event last night was on a set and we're on a real

05:27Street right now and this thing's driving me around. So that was one thing about the event last night

05:32That was a little disappointing as they didn't announce that

05:34You know, the cars are gonna be out on the open road fully self-driving yet

05:38It was just limited to that set while as other companies like Waymo are already doing it

05:43So why is it that Waymo is already able to do this and Tesla can't yet?

05:47I think it really comes down to the technology that they're using Tesla's relying only on cameras for their full self-driving technology

05:54Waymo is using LiDAR and radar technology. Check this out when we get out of the Waymo

05:59You see this big thing on top. That's the LiDAR and the radar technology

06:03And that's why this thing feels safer

06:06I'll let it go do its thing Tesla gets a lot of criticism for not embracing LiDAR technology

06:11But Elon seems pretty stubborn that they're gonna be able to do with just the cameras

06:16So I was kind of hoping at this event

06:17They would go into detail with the cyber cabs if they would have LiDAR technology, but they really didn't so we don't know

06:23Maybe they will have them. Maybe they won't the thing that Tesla

06:26I think we'll be able to do that Waymo really struggles with is making it affordable

06:30These Waymo cars are really expensive and you can't buy that and when you ride around in one

06:35It's about the same price as an uber if not more expensive

06:38So I feel like it's just defeating the purpose of using technology because it's not making it cheaper Tesla's approach is different though

06:45They're gonna let you buy these they want them to be under $30,000

06:49They'll let you rent them out to people and you can make money from it

06:52They're expecting the cost to be as low as 30 to 40 cents a mile

06:56So it actually becomes practical to not even have a car anymore because the cost of car ownership it really adds up

07:02I have a fully paid off Tesla, but I pay about

07:06$5,000 a year just to insure it and park it again. I'm not trying to pit Waymo against Tesla

07:11I think it's cool what both of them are doing and it's great the more companies that are trying to get autonomous vehicles on the

07:17Road because of the overall effect that it could have on cities

07:19So much of LA is parking lots and parking garages and they could be turned into parks like this

07:25And that's kind of the point that Elon made in his presentation and it's so true

07:29Only self-driving cars wouldn't need to park they could just go drive away for five minutes and then come pick you up again

07:34I feel like it's gonna change cities for the better make them more walkable make them more green me personally

07:39I would love to see a future with more parks like this rather than parking garages, you know

07:43There's gonna be no distracted drivers or drunk drivers

07:46And that's why I'm so excited about all of this because I think it's bigger than just people not driving anymore

07:51It's how cities are going to look and it's going to be way better in my opinion. So overall, I'm excited

07:58I'm optimistic. I think what Tesla showed last night is

08:02Really cool. Yes, the robot is kind of scary

08:05I don't think I could sleep at night with one of those in my house

08:07But still I'm excited to see what happens with them

08:10I know a lot of people are scared about all these technologies

08:12But from what I've seen once you try it once you understand it, it actually is really exciting

08:17You know, everyone's afraid to get in those self-driving cars at first, but it's not that scary. Okay?

08:21It's really not a lot of uber drivers in LA are way scarier than a Waymo

08:25Okay, I hope you guys enjoyed my coverage on the Tesla event comment down below. You know what you think of all this stuff

08:30Are you excited? Are you a little bit nervous? I'd love to see I'd love to know

08:34Let's have a discussion in the comments and I'll see you in the next video. Bye

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