Around the time Tesla CEO Elon Musk was asking investors to reapprove his $56 billion pay package, the company also announced that it would launch its long-awaited autonomous vehicle rideshare service Robotaxi on August 8. That launch never happened.
Instead, Tesla ended up postponing its planned Robotaxi unveiling until October to build more prototypes. The vision for Robotaxis is current Tesla owners will essentially rent out autonomous self-driving vehicles to ride-share customers, and Musk has claimed Tesla owners can earn up to $30,000 per year by doing so. In a LinkedIn video posted by Rosalie Nathans, whose profile says she's a senior manager for used cars and online sales at Tesla, she hailed a Robotaxi on her phone and could adjust the car’s temperature, music, as well as pick-up and drop-off locations all without someone in the driver seat.
