Does Waymo's success affect Elon's promise of me making $30,000 a year with my car?

I mean it would be financially ridiculous to buy anything but a Tesla. . . It would be like buying a horse in the 1980's right? Plus, Lidar is a fool's errand. . . . FSD is game set and match!

Not really. They are in different markets. Waymo is in the businness of making self driving taxis. Tesla is a meme stock.

You'll easily make $30,000 a year. Only. it will cost you $50,000 to keep it clean since you'll have to be detailing it every 3 days from the vomit and piss.

tesla won't even make cars with steering wheels come 2021 (the year after which elon promised they would already have had 1 million robo taxis in their robo taxi network)

It’s called a soup kitchen - dirty Mike and the boys

You can make $30k a year with your Tesla easy*if you become an independent contractor getaway driver for armed robbers. *safety not guaranteed

No it doesn’t change a thing. You weren’t going to make it before and you won’t make it now

No it doesn't. Not at all. There was literally zero chance of you ever making $30,000 a year with your Tesla. Not 0.0001%; zero percent. Waymo's success hasn't affected that probability at all.

That promise was just "corporate puffery." Also so known as intentional misleading, or outright lying.

Not really. The probability which used to be 0%, still remains at 0% so you are good.

This is straight-up fraud. "Let me sell you a money printer". PYRAMID SCAM!

No, but if Americans all find out about Xiaomi cars and what you get for $40k, Tesla’s going to look wildly inadequate.

Are you joking?

I mean Tesla competing with its owner customer base is the reality. And with Tesla they’ll obviously make the solo company owned cars a higher priority for pick up with the app soooo. Let’s say even you can provide rides with your own car. You’re now taking money out of teslas pocket and they won’t let that happen.

If I thought I could make thirty thousand a year from my Tesla I’d sell my house and buy ten. And so would thousands of other people.

The insurance liabilities would be crazy. Insurers wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole.

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Nope, your car is not making any money either way

Not just piss and vommit with Elons grok waifu upgrade!

OMG LOL

Lol, this was a funny Musk claim, if it was really possible why would Tesla sell those cars to people instead of keeping such a high return asset for themselves?

Mercedes Benz is taking responsibility in case of an accident while their self driving system is running, they also made sure to not make it usable anytime and anywhere

WE WILL HAVE SEX IN YOUR CAR!

Dirty Mike and the boys never stop

That's what Elmo was banking on.

If tariffs spur hyperinflation, you just might.

I am just quoting the smartest man alive !\~! ELMO !\~! But yeah, this entire post is a joke. . . When people say "Elon may be late, but he always delivers"

I know . . . Just a question to ask Elon's acolytes. See the mental gymnastics that they pull to believe Elon's promise is still going to come true!

I kind of figured but who can even tell anymore.

The most dangerous part of this suggestion isn't breaking the law with criminals, it's the part where you ride in a Tesla.

Not really. It was always a bullshit promise regardless of competition.

by 2016 teslas were already capable of driving themselves from LA to NY. Europe to Australia even. What are we even talking about tesla is light years ahead of the competition. Do waymos have a wade through water mode like the cybertruck does that allows it to drive through an ocean??

This article is 4 years old. Nothing changed, except waymo made like a million more miles.

It's a joke. . . I am pointing out that Elon's promise not only is late. . . but it's impossible now.

If the concept of someone making $30k/year pimping out their ride had any merit whatsoever, they would just do it themselves. In reality it's not going to happen either way because of Fictional Self Driving.

It's because they won't allow Wayno to use their Hyperloop.

Not to mention pecker trails on the seats and who knows how much grafitti and other vandalism. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFme5QgpJxo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFme5QgpJxo)

Let's just say for sake of argument it was theoretically possible. Then everyone and his brother would be trying it. The market would be saturated with Robotaxis. Too much competition will cause prices to plummet to where it's no longer profitable.

Fraud is a better term.

Exactly what does "taking responsibility" mean. In the US at least, the driver is still responsible legally and while MB might pay financial damages, they can't take your manslaughter charge for you.

Tesla is in the business of being a meme stock - fixed that for you. And market makers love it. They will gladly extract every dollar they can from gambling retail investors by selling them options at ridiculous IV’s and barely ever paying out

Sure, and it says all anyone should have ever needed to know that Elon didn’t pursue this sure fire business model himself by buying up his inventory and deploying them as taxis, but rather pushed it on his fanboys so they may collect the “windfall.”

>dirty Mike and the boys Lol

No, by the nature of the fact that his promise was never going to happen either way.

This is the correct answer.

Leave it to Elon to sell “cab owner” as an aspiration for idiots. There’s a reason cabs smell the way they do… and most owners won’t have fun cleaning spilled drinks, food, vomit or other stuff out of their own cars. If you still want to do the math: $30K a year would require 1,000 rides per year, at $30 net profit a pop, average. That’s about 3-4 rides a day. Assuming you live near a major city or airport, that’s fairly doable. DFW airport alone has 200,000 people flying in and out per day. Of course that’s assuming (a) Not enough competition - even with just Tesla, all of the other 20-30,000 Tesla owners in the DFW area might start to do the same, and you might have trouble keeping steady business. (b) All of the other human-based services (Uber, Lyft) go out of business or can’t match Tesla’s rates. (c) Most other car owners give up their cars, and ride Teslas everywhere. (d) **FSD and Robotaxi works.** (e) Your insurance rates don’t rise, your Tesla doesn’t break down often, service and maintenance are cheap and timely, and no one ever dirties your car, ever. I’m sure there’s many, many, many other issues I haven’t even thought of off the top of my head. In short: it’s a pipe dream that could only work if all of a very large number of pre-conditions come true. Which they won’t.

Bro…are you typing this from Mars? When I saw starship take off in 2024 I thought I saw you wave at me and I’ve been wondering how you’ve been. Hope all is good with your new Martian fam

Wife wants to know why I’m laughing so hard. Now she’s laughing.

I would be surprised if even Waymo is making a profit yet. It’s all experimental.

Big companies would own fleets of them.