Elon Musk plays a familiar song: Robot cars are coming

In essence, Thursday nights much-hyped product reveal became something of a Rorschach test: Supporters, who point to everything Musk has accomplished with electric cars and other industries, heard a glorious future with driverless cars and humanoid robots..

Musk has been predicting driverless cars being just around the corner for several years, including in 2016 when he said Tesla would demonstrate a car driving itself from Los Angeles to New York City in 2017..

After building Tesla into the worlds leading electric-car company, Musk in recent years has tried to position its future on robotics, saying it is focused on solving self-driving technology..

The real target were the hundreds of attendees at the event who spent the evening riding around in the cars and posting fawning videos of their experiences on social media, in turn, helping the event go even more viral and generating even more attention for the idea that Tesla is paving the way for a robot future..

Not only did party attendees enjoy rides, but they were entertained by the latest versions of Teslas humanoid robots Optimus, which Musk has said could one day add $25 trillion to the companys market value..

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