Elon Musk was on a quick visit to Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday.
While relations between the US and China are supposed to be at a freezing point, Musk was on the move to promote Tesla’s (possible) driverless car.
The Tesla price has fallen 30 percent this year, but still Musk has a fortune of NOK 1,940 billion, and he is said to have demanded a salary package of NOK 500 billion to lead Tesla on (hard to believe).
It is impressive, and overshadows the fact that production has been cut at several factories worldwide, that Tesla prices are under pressure and that the “war” against trade unions in Scandinavia is not over.
While the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left China with an unsolved case the other day, Elon Musk is said to have reached a cooperation agreement with the Chinese internet and AI giant Baidu.
Truly impressive.
What is at stake is Musk and Tesla’s plans for self-driving cars. The Tesla cars already have elements (software) for automatic driving, but now it is about a platform that makes the cars completely self-driving. However, with the restriction that the driver must have his hands on the steering wheel!
So it is a piece in time before traffic is dominated by driverless cars, and it will probably be regulatory conditions that determine further progress. Yes, perhaps driverless cars and buses on limited stretches and areas, but a free release in cities and towns will probably take much more time.
In any case, it will be earlier in Beijing than in Oslo, where it will soon not be possible to drive at all.
But Musk’s new platform may have the solution.
Lately it has There has also been a lot of publicity about cars that will become a hybrid between a car and an airplane. When the traffic gets too dense in the streets, you can take off like a drone and use the airspace.
We have little faith in that. That the authorities in Norway let the cars or planes free in the airspace above Oslo, where they will constantly be a threat to all the drones and public traffic to and from Gardermoen, is utopian.
It looks fun, and could be a nice trip to the cabin, but not even Elon Musk wants to get something like this done in Norway.
Even though Norway was Tesla’s test market number 1.
