In late August, Bloomberg reported rumors that electrical automaker Tesla plans to disclose its forthcoming autonomous robotaxi — anticipated to be referred to as the Cybercab — on Oct. 10 on the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank.
This automobile will reportedly be purpose-built to operate solely as a self-driving cab. As such, it is not going to comprise an accelerator, brake pedals or a steering wheel, and might be hailed through a particular Tesla app. Every week or so in the past, sources shared a picture of a small, canary-yellow automobile trolling the Warners lot, tailed by Tesla manufacturing automobiles, main some to recommend it was a camouflaged robotaxi.
Overstatements, obfuscations and damaged guarantees concerning the revealing and manufacturing of future Tesla merchandise — a “semi” tractor-trailer, a brand new sporty roadster, an entry-level automobile, this robotaxi — are so frequent as to be customary working process. Since Tesla solely eradicated its public relations division 4 years in the past, The Hollywood Reporter can’t verify that this occasion (already postponed as soon as this 12 months) will happen in any respect. However, if it does transfer ahead, the worldwide launch of a brand new Tesla at Warners is for certain to lift eyebrows in Hollywood and draw scrutiny towards the chummy relationship between the carmaker’s more and more controversial CEO, Elon Musk, and Warners’ embattled chief government, David Zaslav.
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