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☆ I'm an Uber and Lyft driver who's worried Tesla's robotaxis will take ride-hailing jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In cities where those companies operate, drivers are already at risk of losing earnings or seeing an impact on their income. I think drivers in Austin and Atlanta will be in a similar position next year as Waymo has plans to launch there, too. AdvertisementEven though I'm driving for Uber and Lyft full-time, it was never meant to be a full-time gig. One of the main reasons I'm an Uber and Lyft driver is to be debt-free. I think Uber wants to be the central hub for all transportation, even if that means it eventually replaces human drivers entirely.

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☆ Uber CEO says competing with Elon Musk is 'no easy matter' — and would love to partner with Tesla on robotaxis
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told the Financial Times that competing with Elon Musk is not easy. He said he would "love" to get Tesla's robotaxis on the Uber platform when it's ready to roll out. AdvertisementUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says going head-to-head with Elon Musk can be tough — so he's open to partnering with him. "Obviously, competing with Elon Musk is no easy matter, and we take nothing for granted; we really want to partner with the autonomous industry," he told the FT in an interview that aired Tuesday. Uber and Tesla didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ Elon Musk faces doubts about whether he can still deliver. Starship stuck the landing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

SpaceX made history as it returned its Super Heavy booster to its launch site in Texas. For Elon Musk, it was a chance to prove the doubters wrong — and he did. SpaceX Starship. Related storiesAnd Musk earned online applause from legions of Starship fans, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Wall Street analysts attributed the decline partly to skepticism over Tesla's ability to deliver fully autonomous driving.

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☆ Elon Musk’s empire of misinformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —At any Tesla event, you have to go in expecting a good amount of smoke and mirrors. This is the company run by Elon Musk, after all — its self-anointed Technoking who’s made overpromising and underdelivering a theme of his career. ICYMI: The robotaxis, Tesla’s fully driverless vehicles that it hopes to put into service next year, were the main event. But Musk’s reality distortion field is something else entirely — hardly limited to overly optimistic timetables or pie-in-the-sky projections for Tesla’s delivery schedule. In a twist, though, X dropped Unilever from the lawsuit on Friday.

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☆ The 'godfather' of driverless cars says Tesla has a major advantage in the self-driving race
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Anthony Levandowski, who co-founded Google's Waymo, says Tesla has a huge advantage in data. Musk has promised self-driving Teslas for the better part of a decade. Likewise, Levandowski said he hoped for "a little more steak and less sizzle" on the substance of Tesla's self-driving technology. Related storiesYet perhaps few people understand the nitty-gritty of self-driving tech better than Levandowski. Uber's advantageWhile Tesla and Waymo compete for tech supremacy, Uber might be the frontrunner in the robotaxi race right now.

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☆ CNBC Daily Open: With an unchanged PPI, the Fed’s near the finish line
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Winning week for marketsAll major U.S. indexes rose Friday on the back of encouraging inflation data and positive earnings from big banks. That gave them a winning week. Banks' earnings in good shapeJPMorgan Chase , the biggest bank in the U.S., reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that beat estimates.

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☆ CNBC Daily Open: With a stagnant PPI, the Fed’s nearly at the finish line
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

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☆ Elon Musk's net worth fell $15 billion after Tesla's robotaxi event
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tesla stock fell more than 9% on Friday, reducing Elon Musk's net worth. Though his net worth dropped by about $15 billion, Musk remains the world's richest man. The company's stock tumbled in the aftermath — and with it, CEO Elon Musk's net worth. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, updated after the close of trading in New York, Musk's net worth fell by $15 billion. The company's stock value had continued its downward trend through early August then rebounded in September — bringing Musk's net worth to more than that of McDonald's and Pepsi.

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☆ Insider Today: Robotaxi reality check
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On the agenda today:But first: Elon Musk's robotaxi got lost on the way to Wall Street. This week's dispatchTesla's upcoming Robotaxi TeslaRobotaxi dreams meet Wall Street realityElon Musk unveiled Tesla's robotaxi, along with a robovan and updates to its humanoid robot, at a flashy event in Los Angeles this week. Wall Street wasn't buying it. AdvertisementIt's tough to bet against Elon Musk, as many on Wall Street have discovered. Wall Street is taking note, and Amazon could soon face pressure to return some of its cash with buybacks or dividends.

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☆ A Tesla fan experiences the Cybercab for the first time — it's a smooth ride but he wouldn't necessarily buy one
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Tesla fan and attendee Matthew Donegan-Ryan rode in the new Cybercab. Tesla fan and investor Matthew Donegan-Ryan attended the glitzy launch on a film lot at the Warner Bros. @_SFTahoe pic.twitter.com/0Xoubi9hY4 — Matthew Donegan-Ryan (@MatthewDR) October 11, 2024The Cybercab, Tesla's first robotaxi, was revealed alongside a 20-person Robovan. pic.twitter.com/iUD0aKThZa — Matthew Donegan-Ryan (@MatthewDR) October 11, 2024Donegan-Ryan was also surprised by how few cameras the Cybercab had. The Cybercab bears a stylistic resemblance to another Tesla vehicle, the Cybertruck, and Donegan-Ryan said that similarity was particularly apparent in person.

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☆ Musk unveils $30,000 Tesla self-driving Cybercab and larger Robovan at robotaxi event
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

After a decade of unfulfilled promises about driverless vehicles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hyped the company’s Cybercab concept on Thursday night, showing off a low, silver two-seater with no steering wheels or pedals. Musk offered no details about exactly where Tesla plans to produce the cars, but said consumers would be able to buy a Tesla Cybercab for below $30,000. He said the Cybercab and Robovan would employ inductive charging, meaning these autonomous vehicles could roll up to a station to recharge, with no plugging in required. Musk has spent years touting Tesla’s work in autonomous cars and promising that they would hit the market. In 2015, Musk told shareholders that Tesla cars would achieve “full autonomy” within three years.

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☆ WSJ's Tim Higgins on Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi reveal: These kinds of events for the faithful
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWSJ's Tim Higgins on Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi reveal: These kinds of events for the faithfulTim Higgins, Wall Street Journal business columnist, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Tesla's Cybercab event, Elon Musk's timeline for full self-driving vehicles, and more.

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☆ Hogner: This was very disappointing for investors.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHogner: This was very disappointing for investors. Eirik Hogner, Partner and Deputy Portfolio Manager at Clean Energy Transition, expresses disappointment in the investor reaction to Elon Musk's Cybercab reveal, highlighting unmet expectations for autonomous technology and the vehicle's pricing.

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☆ How to trade falling Tesla shares from here with lower risk using options
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Jeff Kilburg | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The movement in the patience-to-impatience investor pendulum for Elon Musk (and Tesla) has fully swung to impatience. I believe this initial negative reaction (down nearly 10%) is presenting a discount in Tesla (TSLA) shares and I want to use options to create short-term income while I wait for a short-term bounce. Tesla plans to introduce full self-driving (FSD) capabilities in California and Texas as early as Q1 2025, pending regulatory approvals. The trade Tesla is a stock that has become more intensely emotional as Musk is in the news daily. I want to capture the emotion in today's tape by utilizing a Risk Reversal options strategy which takes the premium I am collecting from the put option I am selling to finance and buy the call option.

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☆ Tesla shares drop 5.5% in premarket after Cybercab robotaxi reveal fails to impress
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Shares of electric vehicle maker Tesla sank after the company's long-awaited robotaxi event — where CEO Elon Musk unveiled the firm's Cybercab self-driving concept car — failed to impress investors. Musk revealed Tesla's Cybercab concept vehicle — a low, silver two-seater, has no steering wheels or pedals — on Thursday night. The Tesla boss said the company hopes to be producing the Cybercab before 2027, but offered no details on where the cars will be manufactured. He said consumers would be able to buy a Tesla Cybercab for a price tag under $30,000. FSD, which stands for Full Self-Driving, is Tesla's premium driver assistance system, available today in a "supervised" version for Tesla electric vehicles.

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☆ Elon Musk's robotaxi launch fails to wow Wall Street — and leaves Tesla analysts with more questions than answers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla's "We, Robot" event left analysts with more questions than answers. Wall Street was broadly disappointed by the lack of detail, and skeptical of Elon Musk's timeframes. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk's "We, Robot" event on Thursday night failed to impress several Wall Street analysts. Here's how Tesla analysts and commentators reacted to the event.

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☆ Jim Cramer says hold still on Tesla stock after Cybercab debut flops
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

After Wall Street balked at Tesla 's highly-anticipated robotaxi unveiling, CNBC's Jim Cramer told investors not to make any moves on the stock. While he said he wouldn't recommend buying Tesla after Thursday night's event flopped, Cramer discouraged shorting the stock, saying it's "dangerous to bet against" CEO Elon Musk. While impressed by the look and concept of the robotaxi, Cramer said the event's demonstration lacked substance and failed to prove its technological prowess. By Friday's close, Tesla stock was down 8.78%, and Cramer said the market's reaction speaks for itself. "Look, Tesla has a big problem: the electric vehicle market turned out to be substantially smaller than was thought," Cramer said.

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☆ Tesla stock drops 10% after Wall Street sees robotaxi event 'stunningly absent on detail'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla stock fell as much as 10% after its robotaxi reveal underwhelmed Wall Street analysts. Tesla's vision drew skepticism from Wall Street over execution and potential profit challenges. AdvertisementTesla stock dropped as much as 10% on Friday after the automaker's robotaxi reveal event underwhelmed Wall Street. "We found Tesla's Robotaxi event to be underwhelming and stunningly absent on detail," Sacconaghi said. There was at least one Wall Street analyst who struck a positive tone after Tesla's robotaxi event: Wedbush analyst Dan Ives.

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☆ Elon Musk might have to convince Trump not to 'stop' autonomous vehicles if he's reelected
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk revealed Tesla's new robotaxis hours after Trump said he would "stop" AVs from operating. Trump expressed concerns about autonomous vehicles at the Detroit Economic Club. During his remarks at the Detroit Economic Club, Trump said he found autonomous vehicles "concerning" and promised to "stop" them from operating. "I will stop Chinese — and other countries — produced automobile and autonomous vehicles," he said. Amazon-backed Zoox received authorization from the California and Nevada DMV to operate fully autonomous robotaxis on public roads.

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☆ Tesla's stock lower on Cybercab timing and no affordable model update, says Deepwater's Gene Munster
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailTesla's stock lower on Cybercab timing and no affordable model update, says Deepwater's Gene MunsterGene Munster, Deepwater Asset Management, joins 'Fast Money' to talk Tesla's robotaxi event and the stock reaction.

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☆ Elon Musk's Robotaxi is still miles away from overtaking Uber and Waymo in the ride-hailing race
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementIf Elon Musk can fully deliver on his plans to make Tesla's Robotaxi the new go-to mode of transport, he could bring an end to the ride-hailing economy as we know it. "Tesla's vehicles, sensors, and software will all need to be approved in any market they hope to enter. "Until Tesla robotaxis are transporting 100,000 paying customers a week around major American cities like Waymo does, Tesla Robotaxi is nothing more than the latest work of fiction to come out of the Warner Bros. "We also believe TSLA could struggle to scale fleet operations without offering access to demand via Uber/Lyft." Uber is already preparing for a future of electric cars and autonomous vehicles without Tesla's involvement.

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☆ Elon Musk reveals Tesla's Robotaxi and Robovan
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Ana Altchek | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Elon Musk just unveiled Tesla's Robotaxi at the company's "We, Robot" event in Los Angeles. Elon Musk showed off Tesla's upcoming driverless taxi at its "We, Robot" on Thursday evening. Musk walked into the event and entered a sleek-looking silver Robotaxi, a two-door vehicle that opened upward with butterfly-style doors. The unveiling of Tesla's latest vehicle is a major milestone for the company and has been highly anticipated for years. In 2016, Musk said during a press call that a Tesla vehicle would autonomously drive from Los Angeles to New York City by 2017.

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☆ Video: Elon unveils ‘Robovan’ and ‘Cybercab’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Sarah Jorgensen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Optimus robots danced on a lit-up stage and served drinks at Tesla's robotaxi event
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus took a starring role at the company's Hollywood robotaxi event. The robots served drinks for attendees, posed for selfies, and even danced on a stage. AdvertisementElon Musk may have unveiled the robotaxi on a Hollywood set on Thursday night — but it was Tesla's Optimus robots that had the starring role. Tesla has previously released videos of the Optimus robot performing yoga stretches, picking up an egg, and squatting. AdvertisementAt the event, Musk said he expects the Optimus robot to cost $20,000 to $30,000 in the long term.

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☆ Waymo pulls ahead in robotaxi race
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWaymo pulls ahead in robotaxi raceCNBC's Deidre Bosa joins 'The Exchange' to discuss the state of driverless vehicles from Waymo and how they compare to Tesla's upcoming cybercab.

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