One of the comments someone left on that article explains what he must have meant:
"āI will walk the line personally to accelerate the pace of progressā
Like with Starship? Or Cybertruck?
How many chips is he going to waste going into the clean room?
Based on what Iām reading about how disgruntled local officials are with Tesla Robotaxis in Austin, Iām not even sure they will even still be there in a year.
Itās interesting to see how increasingly unhinged the forecasts from a certain (AI-related) corner of the tech industry have become, with Elno always pushing things even further. Itās one thing for Meta to say, āSure, weāre only getting $20 billion in revenue with AI-related products right now, but we expect weāll be doing $1.4 trillion worth in a decade. Even though we have no path towards making that happen. Hey, it could come true - who knows what could happen in that time?ā Itās another for Musk to claim something unlikely in a ridiculous timeframe that requires all sorts of infrastructure and government approvals that donāt exist.
Though I wonder if Musk has some (delusional) plan to open up the program so that anyone with a Tesla can rent it out. Never mind that there are only a few million Teslas in the US (and even fewer owners willing to use them that way), and never mind that they donāt have enough drivers for all those vehicles, much less regulatory approval. The existence of Teslas around the country in the context of a delusional plan like that is the only way that statement could make sense.
My sources tell me the secret plan is to fly HLS to the Moon and set up a robotic factory to make next gen AI chips out of regolith. By next Tuesday or so.
Fake News!
Mars.
This probably wonāt happen. Sounds good in theory, but it gets hung up on one very simple, but infinitely important question:
Who cleans the barf out of the car?
Until that question is resolved satisfactorily, there will be no car-share ride-share service.
You did mention delusional.
And Musk is never going to share money with his customers. Theyāre the marks.
Or, you know, just bits of debris on bystanders.
Yeah, when the idea was previously floated by Elno, that seemed like a pretty big issue that Musk was completely oblivious to - the amount of work ride-share workers engage in to keep their vehicles clean, given drunk/terrible passengers (who, in the absence of a driver would be so, so much worse). Made worse by the fact that for maximum efficiency the vehicle wouldnāt necessarily even return home between trips. I suspect that (and the other drawbacks) would occur to car owners long before they actually signed up for such a program. That for car owners, itās not a āno-work version of Uber,ā but instead āUber with only the crappy bits.ā
Hey now, Iām sure car owners will get as much as 5, maybe even 10% of the revenue profits! (Theyāll also be responsible for the insurance, cleaning the car, fixing it up when passengers trash it, etc.)
Holy crap, how would the insurance policy on that kind of arrangement even work?
Tesla will proved a āchauffeur-sytle service operated by human driversā
Thatās the offer??? Holy crap, Iām glad I finished my coffee before I read that.
Bwaaaa haaaa!!! Heās invented the taxi. Itās genius!
[stop stop, itās starting to hurt my ribs, and I need to pee]
Translation: taxis driven by unregulated and unvetted cabbies!
He invented Ć¼ber worse taxi.
Certainly wouldnāt be the first time.