Elon Musk’s Cybercab Hype Is Smoke, Mirrors And Wishful Thinking

Elon Musk made a lot of promises about new Tesla products last night during the automaker’s livestreamed ‘We, Robot’ event. Those new Teslas included a robotic taxi, dubbed the ‘Cybercab’ following Tesla’s typical verbiage, not to mention a bigger, 20-seat autonomous version called ‘Robovan.’ The operative word during all of these announcements is ‘promises,’ of course, and the thing about those is that — particularly when you’re Elon Musk (and by extension Tesla) — you don’t have to deliver on

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