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Silicon Valley startup Tensor 
just unveiled a $200,000 luxury 

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electric SUV designed from the 
ground up to drive itself 

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without anyone behind the wheel.
This isn't a Tesla. 

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This is better, actually. 
The company plans to deliver the

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first consumer owned Level 4 
autonomous vehicle by late 2026,

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meaning the car handles all the 
driving in approved zones 

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without human supervision. 
And Tensor packed this thing 

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with over 100 sensors, 8 NVIDIA 
processors, and a folding 

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steering wheel that disappears 
into the dashboard when you're 

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not using it. 
This thing is like a 

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transformer. 
But will people be willing to 

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actually trust a machine enough 
to hand over the keys to a 

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$200,000 investment now? 
Lyft just reserved hundreds of 

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these robocars for its own 
fleet, and that deal includes 

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something I haven't seen before.
And we're going to cover the 

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hardware that separates this 
vehicle from anything that Tesla

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or Waymo offers. 
Now there's a regulatory maze 

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that Tensor still needs to 
navigate and why Lyft's purchase

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could change how we think about 
owning a car. 

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And we'll get right into that 
right after this very short 

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break. 
Now, Tensor's robocar enters a 

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market where no company has sold
a Level 4 autonomous vehicle to 

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individual buyers. 
The startup spent nearly a 

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decade in stealth mode, building
proprietary technology after 

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walking away from robotaxi 
operations in China. 

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Now this thing is a sleek 
crossover SUV, and it is covered

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in lidar sensors and cameras. 
No drivers needed. 

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That's the product that Tensor 
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Production will be handled by 
Vietnamese automaker Vinfast at 

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its factory in Haipong, which 
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the United Arab Emirates before 
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Now let's start with the 
hardware, though. 

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Tensor fitted the Ribbocar with 
37 cameras, 5 custom lidar 

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units, 11 radars, 22 
microphones, 10 ultrasonic 

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sensors, and 16 collision 
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That sensor count puts pressure 
on every competitor, and lighter

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is the spinning laser system 
that creates a 3D map of 

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everything around the car. 
The rooftop unit scans 360° and 

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detects objects nearly 1000 feet
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Cameras mounted underneath the 
chassis address a blind spot 

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that has caused problems for 
other autonomous systems, and 

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that is something that I haven't
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The primary lighter unit, called
Tensor Halo, emits 25.6 million 

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beams per second. 
That creates what the company 

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describes as a 360 degree safety
shield around the vehicle. 

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Four additional blind spot 
lidars cover areas the main unit

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cannot reach. 6 Hyper radars 
detect both stationary and 

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moving objects across all 
distances using 4D tech imaging 

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for external microphone 
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Locate emergency vehicle sirens 
before they become visible so 

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the car can pull over safely 
without visual confirmation. 

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Most autonomous vehicle 
developers retrofit existing car

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platforms with sensors bolted on
afterwards, and Tensor designed 

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every surface to optimize sensor
placement from the first sketch.

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Now 8 NVIDIA Dr. EGX 4 chips sit
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onboard supercomputer. 
The system processes over 53 

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gigabits of sensor data per 
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For context, that's roughly 1000
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Internet speeds. 
The AI runs on transformer based

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models trained on data from 
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A separate visual language model
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unexpected scenarios. 
And edge cases are the weird 

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situations that normal driving 
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If there's construction on the 
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the middle of the road and they 
have to go around it, that's one

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of those weird situations and 
maybe the cone is tipped over or

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maybe there's like some bigger 
rocks in the road or something, 

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some random stuff in the road. 
Tensor engineer this 

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supercomputer for 10 years or 
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That's really good. 
Advanced liquid cooling 

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maintains peak performance 
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There is a dual power 
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full redundancies with multiple 
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continuous operation, and every 
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the vehicle. 
There's no cloud, and Tensor 

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designed the system to work 
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storing all travel data 
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Now you can upgrade over the 
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upgrading, that's a thing, and 
that's going to be happening 

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with the Tensor vehicles. 
But all the data for your own 

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vehicle never gets shared in the
cloud, and owners can disable 

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remote access entirely and 
control data through an 

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encrypted smartphone app. 
Physical cameras can be covered 

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and microphones can be switched 
off, and that can all be done 

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with the app too. 
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If you listened to this before, 

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I've been doing this as an 
independent journalist covering 

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So thank you. 
Tents are built a $200,000 SUV 

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with over 100 sensors, massive 
onboard computing, and a privacy

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first architecture that keeps 
your data away from big tech. 

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Now let's talk about what this 
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Inside there's a folding 
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The dash opens up and the 
steering wheel retracts into the

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dash. 
If you don't want to drive, this

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thing can drive you anywhere you
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You can ask it to drive you to 
the store. 

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So if you want to spend a bunch 
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shopping and you live 10 minutes
from the store, but you don't 

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want to walk because you have a 
bunch of bags and you know 

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you're going to be there for a 
few hours. 

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You don't need your car to sit 
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So you send it home, you can say
drop me off at the store, I'm 

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going to be there for two hours,
pick me up two hours later, go 

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home for now and the car will do
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It's just crazy, right? 
There's no pedals because they 

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disappear into the foot bed. 
The center display slides over 

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to face the former driver's 
seat, which becomes a reclining 

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lounge chair with massage, 
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If you just want this thing to 
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to be luxury all the time, a 
massage chair in your car and 

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you're just sitting there 
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Tensor claims 29 storage 
compartments fold flat seats for

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items up to 10 feet long in a 
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your vehicles transport animals 
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that's pretty wild. 
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crossover segment, though with 
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SUV. 
A112 kWh battery provides an 

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estimated 250 miles of range. 
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enables charging from 20 to 80% 
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power, around 400 kilowatts. 
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travel in ways current E VS 
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Tensor developed compatibility 
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from Roxys and Bros, allowing 
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without human intervention. 
Run flat tires. 

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Let the vehicle continue driving
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puncture. 
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time to reach a safe location 
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display panels on the exterior 
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Coach style doors feature radar 
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You have soft closed motors and 
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Now we have to talk about Lyft 
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that in the beginning of this 
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partner for this crew here. 
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economic base for Tensor. 
Tensor will ship from Vietnamese

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manufacturer Vinfast with Lyft's
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That changes everything 
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You can deploy your personal 
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networks in markets where Level 
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The car earns money while parked
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You can let it go wild. 
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store, you know you're going to 
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Tell it, hey, shift into lift 
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money. 
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those two hours of drives, it 
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things that you buy. 
So it's a way for you to make 

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residual income. 
Maybe you'd let your car do the 

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work for you. 
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this a while ago, years and 
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ago, he would say you could just
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lot all day, right? 
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it do a robo taxi for you and 
Uber people around for you and 

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You're working for 8 hours. 
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It's just sitting there in the 
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earning you money. 
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Tesla, right? 
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Lyft just leapfrog Tesla and 
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this. 
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this and it actually works, 
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competition. 
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Now the car earns money whenever
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You're at work 8 hours? 
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up when you're done at work, 
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Lyft's fleet management subsidy,
Flexdrive, will handle cleaning,

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So not only do you get this 
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Maybe you'll make $200,000 in 
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because this thing can run 24/7.
Who knows how much money you can

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make. 
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clean it, charge it, and 
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have to do any of that stuff. 
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depreciates the moment it leaves
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life. 
It doesn't. 

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You don't really do anything 
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Like right now, my car's in my 
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It's not doing anything. 
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income could theoretically 
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productive use. 
The company reserved hundreds of

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rebel cars for its fleet. 
Lyft did through its affiliates,

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pending regulatory approval. 
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The marks a big shift for Lyft. 
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facilitating rides through its 
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management services. 
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Uber has signed more than a 
dozen agreements globally with 

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autonomous developers and 
pledged to deploy at least 

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20,000 Lucid and Neuro Robotaxi 
starting next year. 

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The Tensor deal gives a lift a 
vehicle specifically engineered 

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for rideshare duty with sensors 
designed for a decade of 

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commercial use. 
So even when you're done with 

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this car, say, if you upgrade to
something else and you're just 

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like, you know what, I want to 
keep this car going so it can do

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lift for me and I keep earning 
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Maybe you do that. 
There's so many options for you 

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now that you can actually do 
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Tesla hasn't done this yet. 
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if you aren't able to do this by
the end of 2026, Tensor is ahead

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of Tesla if that's the case. 
So what do we know about this 

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regulatory path I was talking 
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Tensor holds a California DV 
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but has not secured CPUC 
authorization to deploy vehicles

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to the public without safety 
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CPUC is the California Public 
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that grants commercial permits 
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Only Waymo has obtained that 
permit that limits where Tensor 

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can launch. 
Initial deliveries will go to 

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the United Arab Emirates in late
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differ from the US American 
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2027, pending approvals, and the
company operates in geofence 

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zones for a fully automated 
vehicles, allowing manual 

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driving outside of approved 
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So what's next for Tensor? 
It's a crazy ride already, 

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right? 
Tensor evolved from Auto XA 

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former MITPHTM Princeton 
assistant professor, known 

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professionally as Professor X 
Auto X operated over 1000 

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robotaxis across 5 Chinese 
cities during the pandemic. 

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That was one of the largest 
fully driverless fleets globally

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at that time. 
The company established 

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manufacturing facilities near 
Shanghai and maintained 

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operation centers across 65 
square miles of Shengzhen. 

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Now, Auto X began testing on 
public roads in California back 

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in 2017 and secured California's
second ever driverless testing 

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permit in 2020. 
That gives Tensor years of real 

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world data that most competitors
lack. 

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Now Auto X fully divested all 
China operations and 

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discontinued the brand to focus 
on American, European and Middle

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Eastern markets. 
Tensor maintains headquarters in

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San Jose with satellite offices 
in Spain, the UAE and Singapore.

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The company claims ownership and
controlled by US employees, with

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majority investment for the UK, 
Japan, Korea and the United 

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States. 
Recent reports indicate Tensor 

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may raise 300 to $400 million in
pre IPO funding while working 

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with Royal Bank of Canada, 
potentially listing on US 

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exchanges by late 2026 or early 
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Now that funding timeline aligns
with vehicle deliveries, giving 

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investors a chance to bet on 
consumer adoption. 

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Personal autonomous vehicles 
before Tensor prove that the 

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market actually exists.