(Reuters) – Tesla jerks by 10% to Wall Street, thanks to the awaited launch of the company’s robotaxi service, an event that CEO Elon Musk has supported for years as one of the key factors of the group’s high evaluation.
Yesterday the car manufacturer sided a small fleet of autonomous driving taxi in Austin, Texas. It is the first races of the Tesla cars with paying passengers without drivers, offered at a fixed rate of $ 4.20 in a limited area.
The success of the test is crucial for Tesla, since Musk has oriented the company towards autonomous driving cars and robots, setting aside the plans for the domain of the mass market in the electric vehicles sector, following the increasingly fierce Chinese competition and the slowdown in demand for the old group models of the group.
(Translated by Enrico Sciacovelli, editing Andrea Mandalà)
