Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Tech News

Is this weirdly shaped, canary yellow thing Tesla’s robotaxi?

This photo, from X user @MatthewDR via Reddit user u/boopitysmopp (since deleted), could be of Tesla’s long-gestating robotaxi. | Screenshot: u/boopitysmopp, via @MatthewDR

A blurry photo of a heavily camouflaged vehicle tooling around on the Warner Bros. movie studio lot surfaced last night, spurring speculation that it’s the fabled Tesla robotaxi set to be revealed next month.

With its canary yellow wrap and clearly manipulated shape, it’s difficult to glean much about the robotaxi from just this sighting. Everything about this photo should be taken with a grain of salt, including the tires, boxy rear end, weird roof bump (lidar?), and upsetting hood indentions. All is not what it seems.

According to Electrek, the photo was first posted to Reddit by u/boopitysmopp, who is said to be a lot employee at Warner Bros. (The post has since been removed, and the Reddit user has deleted their profile, so the…

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

Tech News

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Stuart Franklin Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. Continue reading…

Tech News

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Kamala Harris’ strategy to reach young voters will see her debut on Twitch tonight, where she’ll...

Tech News

Image: Cruise The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is closing an investigation from 2022 into the GM-owned robotaxi company. The agency was...

Tech News

OpenAI It’s strange to sit down at my desk and talk to an AI about my life — but that’s what I spent my...