That’s partly why McNeill, along with many others, was surprised by the nothing burger that was Tesla’s much-anticipated robotaxi reveal earlier this month.
“Oftentimes, Elon has got something up his sleeve where he’ll not reveal it until one of those product events. And so I was really wondering, what’s up his sleeve? What does he have? Because Waymo and Cruise are already at Level 4. Tesla’s at Level 2. He’s got to have some major breakthroughs he’s going to talk about to take it from Level 2 to Level 4.”