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Just a hypothesis but Telsa is a self-driving car platform that just happens to sell vehicles right now.

The trajectory Tesla is taking is where a user buys subscription to a Tesla vehicle, all cars have the same feature set but what is available to you is based on the subscription you've bought. So if you have the autopilot option bought it will be available to you in whichever car that arrives.

In this case it makes sense to push out homogeneity amongst all of its vehicles out there.




That's more than a hypothesis; it's the plan.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux

"In cities where demand exceeds the supply of customer-owned cars, Tesla will operate its own fleet, ensuring you can always hail a ride from us no matter where you are."


How are these shared cars not going to be treated like crap like most other shared vehicles, such as scooters? At my old college, drunks flipped a shared smart car onto its roof for sport.


The Tesla ride sharing network that's in the works (but slow-gowing in the actual full self-driving department) is supposed to be more like Uber than Hertz. If you mistreat the car and the next person reports it as dirty, you'd probably get charged extra or barred from using them if you were a repeat offender.


These cars will be able to drive themselves to centers where they can be cleaned and detailed if and as needed. Scooters today can't.




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