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Tesla will need some Hollywood magic for its robotaxi reveal

Maybe Hollywood can help smooth out Tesla’s rough edges.

The news that Tesla will likely reveal its long-awaited, much-debated autonomous robotaxi at the Warner Bros. movie studio in Los Angeles underscores how much ground the company needs to cover in order to catch up to its rivals in the self-driving space. But as Electrek rightly points out, Tesla has always claimed that its system would be different by using data gathered from its fleet of regular vehicle owners, who send camera images back to the company for annotation and labeling. Tesla is likely to show a pretty good demo of a driverless car tooling around on the Warner Bros. lot, or around downtown San Francisco, or at the Supercharger location in Santa Monica.

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