Tesla patented self-cleaning tech for its robotaxis that don’t exist yet

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Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.

ArticleBody:Full Self-Driving technology still doesn’t live up to its name for Tesla owners, but Elon Musk’s company is committed to plowing forward with its next plans. Musk has already promised to reveal its long-rumored Tesla robotaxi on August 8 . But if Tesla’s autonomous taxis do ever make it onto public streets, they are going to require regular cleaning between trips spent ferrying around passengers—something Tesla also wants to outsource to robots.

But in keeping with Tesla’s ethos, the company’s potential solution involves stuffing robotaxis with even more tech—specifically a combination of image, thermal, acoustic, pressure, radio frequency, gas, and/or capacitive sensors.

 

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