内容摘要：The dispute has since grown to include issues over the long-term pay of bin lorry drivers.

The dispute has since grown to include issues over the long-term pay of bin lorry drivers.

"It was a great car company. They could compete in the autonomous taxi space but they're way behind."Tesla has long attempted to play catch-up against rival Waymo, owned by Google-parent Alphabet, whose driverless taxis have traversed the streets of San Francisco for years - and now operate in several more cities.

This month, Musk is supposed to be overseeing Tesla's launch of a batch of autonomous robo-taxis in Austin, Texas.He posted to X last week that the electric vehicle maker had been testing the Model Y with no drivers on board."I believe 90% of the future value of Tesla is going to be autonomous and robotics," Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives told the BBC this week, adding that the Austin launch would be "a watershed moment".

"The first task at hand is ensuring the autonomous vision gets off to a phenomenal start," Ives added.But with Musk's attention divided, the project's odds of success would appear to have lengthened.

And there's something else to factor in too: Musk's own motivation.

The talk in Silicon Valley lately centres less on whether Musk can turn things around and more on whether he even cares."This ballet went into workshop with Sadler's Wells and it has landed really well. I was deeply touched by it.

"We're bringing rock music ethics into the ballet world."The ballet is backed by instrumental music recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

"It was amazing to see people working with my music who were so young," Townshend added."This is a different take on the perennial story of a young man struggling in life to find meaning.