Elon Musk never wanted to build the low-cost car, according to Walter Isaacson. He wanted the design team to focus on the robotaxi, but they eventually convinced him to do both. Now he’s overruled them again.
If the board really cares about Tesla, they’d use this to oust Musk.
Even if Tesla could make them (they can't), robot taxis as a replacement for private care ownership is a pipedream if you don't first do something with the transportation patterns.
As long as the main driver for private transportation by car is commuting to work, a taxi fleet is going to need about the same number of cars as we've do today with private ownership.
It wold just add traffic: a robot taxi can't just wait in your driveway till the next day.
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