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according to foreign media reports, on september 26, tesla has begun sending invitations to next month's robotaxi launch conference, with the slogan: we, robots.

for a while, tesla ceo elon musk discussed building a dedicated self-driving car, which he called the tesla robotaxi.

it was originally supposed to be unveiled at an event in august, but was pushed back to october 10th.

today, tesla began sending out invitations to its event to minority shareholders and the media:

tesla wrote in the invitation that the theme of the event is "we, the robots" and will unveil the future of autonomous driving:

join us, robotics – our official unveiling of the autonomous future.

little is known about the self-driving taxi, other than hints that it won't have a steering wheel or pedals and will be designed similarly to the cybertruck. we may have also seen a glimpse of the interior in a video released by tesla and a heavily camouflaged prototype tested on the warner bros. lot, where the event took place.

it is expected to be small in size.

tesla is focusing on autonomous driving and is also expected to show off its latest optimus humanoid robot.

the most important thing is to find the self-driving hardware that can power the self-driving system of robotaxis.

for years, elon has promised millions of tesla owners that their cars would be able to drive themselves via a software update. but this has yet to happen, and there are serious doubts whether it can be done on existing hardware.

the fact that tesla is now launching a new car designed specifically for autonomous driving does nothing to allay those doubts.

additionally, it will be interesting to see if tesla decides to launch a geo-locked ride-hailing service if the vehicle doesn’t have a steering wheel. tesla’s self-driving competitor waymo has been doing this for years, and tesla has always looked down on this approach, preferring a general ai driver approach that has not worked so far.

it will be interesting to see tesla validate this approach.