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Autonomous driving: VW wants to overtake Tesla.

Volskwagen will launch the autonomous ID. Buzz AD in 2026, hoping to overtake Tesla in the robotaxi race.

Other competitors are also getting involved in this billion-dollar market.

mediafaro.org/article/20250620

A black VW ID.Buzz AD electric minivan. |Image: Lukas Barth/Reuters
DW · Autonomous driving: VW wants to overtake Tesla.By Insa Wrede
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#Tesla's story about keeping used cars for #robotaxis fits a long pattern of unfulfilled promises to deploy #SelfDriving vehicles–most recently announced for June in Austin, Texas.

Every year since 2016, #Musk has promised self-driving Teslas would arrive no later than the following year. In 2019, when Tesla first offered leasing for the Model 3, Musk told podcast host Lex Fridman that the ability to add #AutonomousDriving software would make every used Tesla an "appreciating asset."

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Although counter to what #Musk said publicly–& descriptions #Tesla gave…regarding #lease terms–the tactic appears to have been legal. Still, the practice denied lessees the industry-standard option of buying their vehicles & misled them for years about why.

It also perpetuated the myth among investors that Tesla was near fully #AutonomousDriving #technology. That belief helped buoy Tesla #stock, whose value far outpaced current earnings & made it the world's most valuable automaker.

🚗 Autonome Fahrzeuge wie #Robotaxis versprechen ein verbessertes Mobilitätsangebot, mehr Verkehrssicherheit und mehr Nachhaltigkeit.

📍 Am 3. April, 17:30 Uhr, diskutiert Prof. Ina Schaefer @KIT_Karlsruhe im Haus der Wissenschaft in #Braunschweig die Herausforderungen bei der Einführung autonomer Fahrzeuge und stellt ein Konzept vor, das helfen könnte, die Einführung voranzutreiben.

👉 lnk.tu-bs.de/agv7ry