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Tesla puts spotlight on its self-driving tech

Elon Musk is scheduled to show off Tesla’s latest advances in autonomous vehicles today. (Watch it here at 2 p.m. Eastern.) But it’s unclear whether the event will persuade skeptics that the company is on the right track.

Expect to hear a lot about robo-taxis. Mr. Musk has contended that Tesla’s cars would be able to drive without human intervention by next year. Today’s event is expected to promote hardware advances that let the company’s vehicles act as a self-driving fleet. (A Twitter user posted pictures of what was apparently a photo shoot for the event.)

Tesla’s exuberance isn’t shared by others in the industry. Ford’s C.E.O., Jim Hackett, said two weeks ago that his company had “overestimated” how quickly the technology had advanced. And Waymo, considered the leader in autonomous vehicles, has rolled out a test robo-taxi program in Phoenix very slowly.

The announcement comes before the release of Tesla’s latest quarterly results. The company has already said that it plans to report a loss and disclosed that vehicle sales fell 31 percent from three months ago.