Elon Musk rejected a hypothetical tesla-uber agreement on Tuesday, saying that Tesla “no need” is “no need” to buy the omnipresent application of Rameshare.
Musk told CNBC that he is considering a world where, instead of calling an Uber, you can call an autonomous Tesla to bring you to destination without a dedicated driver.
“We have millions of cars that can work independently,” Musk told David Faber de CNBC. “And I must say that it is a combination of a fleet belonging to Tesla and also allowing the owners of Tesla to add or subtract their car from the fleet, so that the owners of the existing Tesla can earn money by adding their car to the fleet for autonomous use.”
The commercial model offered by Musk would allow Tesla drivers to rent their cars for autonomous carpooling, “just like” one can rent a guest room via Airbnb.
Tesla and Uber representatives did not immediately respond to the requests for comments from Business Insider.
After years of delays, Tesla plans to make her debut on her long -awaited Robotaxi service in Austin next month, Business Insider previously reported. Musk confirmed the plans in the CNBC interview on Tuesday.
“We are going to start with probably 10 for a week, then increase it to 20, 30, 40,” he said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. “It will probably be 1,000 in a few months.”
Tesla has not yet unveiled the commercial version of its complete autonomous software, called FSD not supervised. This software will be used in its Robotaxi fleet and does not require a driver behind the steering wheel like its personal vehicles.
When asked by Faber if Tesla had to make improvements or modifications to its technology or to its fleet in order to prepare to launch a large -scale Robotaxi service, Musk dismantled.
“I don’t think we miss anything,” said Musk. “Tesla has all the ingredients necessary to offer a large autonomous fleet.”
Although Uber and Lyft have long been away from developing internal autonomous cars, the two companies are planning to offer a robotaxis on their platforms thanks to partnerships with other self-circular companies.
Uber, for example, already offers Alphabet Waymo on its application in Phoenix, Austin and Atlanta.
Lyft said that he had associated with companies like May Mobility, Mobileye and Japanese Marubeni to start offering autonomous vehicles in the summer of 2025.
