Tesla moved a step closer to her intention to operate an autonomous robot fleet on Tuesday when California regulators gave Elon Musk Makese electric cars to start traveling to the state.
The permit is a prerequisite to apply to operate an autonomous travel service to California, but a CPU spokesman said that the current permit “does not authorize them to provide travel” in autonomous vehicles, and does not allow Tesla to operate a public travel service.
Instead, the limited license issued by the California Public Services Commission gives Tesla permission to transport its employees using Tesla -owned vehicles on a predetermined basis.
Tesla’s stock – which has been blocked with weeks of penalty losses that have reduced its value by nearly half – increased by nearly 4% from 1:30 in the afternoon and on Wednesday.
While this authorization is an initial action towards Tesla’s long -term goal for setting up a fleet of car themselves, it is just one of the many approvals the company will need before technology is available to the public in California.
Waymo, a branch of Google Alphabet’s parent company, remains the only company that offers autonomous trips to the public to California.
Its early competitor, Cruise, previously offered self-driving tax services mainly in the San Francisco Bay area, but a series of accidents involving vehicles pushed state regulators to suspend its permit at the end of 2023.
More than a year later, Cruise General Motors decided to terminate its investments in the Robotaxi program after spending over $ 10 billion since its purchase in 2016.
Tesla has long been seen as a possible major competition in the autonomous vehicle industry.
Musk has expressed confidence in the financial impact of robots taxi, stating that they can add trillion dollars to the Tesla market estimate.
Despite the optimism on the autonomous ambitions of the company’s management, Tesla’s shares have faced the latest wars.
Tesla was the beneficiary of a “Trump Bump” after the election, when the price of its shares increased to a high height of nearly $ 480 per share in mid -December.
But Musk’s active role in lowering the federal bureaucracy and its proximity to President Trump, as well as its touch of far -right parties in Europe, have placed a tooth in the company’s sales.
Since mid -December, Tesla’s shares have lost nearly 60% of its value. Since Wednesday afternoon, she has been trading about $ 235 per action.
Musk’s hug for politics Maga has also sparked a redness of vandalism and arson attacks against Tesla vehicles and car dealers across the country in recent weeks.
In October, the company discovered a prototype of its predicted autonomous vehicle to which Musk refers to as a “cybercab”.
Just a month later, Tesla submitted a request for the newly provided travel service permit.
However, the company has not yet applied for the additional regulatory approval necessary to operate a robot tax service in the state.
Musk has assumed that Texas can be the first location where Tesla places her robot taxis – with a possible start in June.
Unlike California, Texas has relatively relaxed rules surrounding autonomous vehicles, making it a more favorable environment for initial testing.
In December 2021, Tesla officially transferred her corporate headquarters from Palo Alto, Calif., To Austin, Texas, after Musk bitterly criticized the California regulators for closing factories during the pandemia.
Waymo has already introduced its own taxes to the public in Austin this month, signaling increasing competition in the sector.
For Tesla to legally operate autonomous taxis on public roads in California, the company must receive additional approval from both the CPUC and the State Vehicle Department.
CPUC Oversses Ride-For-For-your-Services as Uber and Lyft while DMV is responsible for assessing vehicle safety-an important regulatory obstacle for any company seeking to introduce self-driving technology.
Tesla has been the subject of regulatory control over its security record, especially as it belongs to its full self-direction technology (FSD).
Last fall, the National Traffic Safety Administration on the highway launched an investigation after an incident in which a Tesla driver used the advanced FSD System of Driver Aid
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