The closed captions are running ahead of the talking.
"Just ride a bus" is the "640K ought to be enough for anybody" of the current cycle.
Come to Switzerland and let SBB blow your mind
Hopefully they will pull through and get started soon enough.
Instead you have access to a fleet of specialized vehicles that are optimized for different tasks. Eg many trips might still be with only one or two passangers, and then a small two seater makes a lot of sense. If you need larger capacity you simple order a ride from a suitable vehicle class.
So building it without dead weight that will almost never be used makes sense.
If you're a bigger party, there will probably be bigger robotaxis to summon. Or take two cars.
Also videos of more humanoid robots that move better than the ones shown live.
Overall, this demo looks a lot like the self driving vehicles at Guangzhou Bio Island. They have slow self-driving buses and taxis in a somewhat controlled environment.[1] That sort of thing has been working for about five years now.
Pictures of robotic car interior cleaning, but no mention of that.
Perhaps he's made another deal with the board for a better $100B pay package so he can lie to the shareholders (who'll eat it up) and he'll dump subpar products onto these people who are heralding him as another "genius" or whatever.
He's just another run-of-the-mill, out of touch conman at this point. He was great, but he didn't hold onto his own greatness.
edit: Something about a park ride?! ... Jesus.
[0] - https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-timeline-1851664786#....
Fool me once, shame on Elon. Fool me 194 times, shame on me.
Cybercab before 2027.
Reddit comment with his predictions:
https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/n6nsmt/elo...
