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Kalanick warns municipalities may restrict autonomous vehicles like they did scooters
“Guys, like, we should watch for this in the autonomous car space too. Cities may get acute and start doing things like that. And what they did on scooters, they could do on cars.”
Travis Kalanick Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 38:23 OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Travis Kalanick expects cheaper AI to paradoxically increase total industry revenue
“When AI gets cheap, you know what's going to happen, guys? There's going to be a lot more AI, right? I don't think, I think the price elasticity on this one is actually positive. So as the price goes down, the revenue usage, everything's going to go up.”
Travis Kalanick Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 45:17 DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
Prediction Partly held up
Travis Kalanick warns expanding California's grid by 10% will take years
“Even getting 20% more, 10% more is going to be a gargantuan five to 10 year exercise.”
Travis Kalanick Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:28:44 DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Travis Kalanick predicts people will only cook as a hobby
“Look people will cook in the future as a hobby.”
Travis Kalanick Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 4:05 DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Kalanick: Tesla Hardware 5 will probably launch next year
“Hardware five is coming out on Tesla probably next year, which is going to make a big difference in what FSD can do.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 25:35 Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kalanick: CloudKitchens robots will deploy widely over coming quarters and years
“Have real, you know, robots that are gonna, that already Are out there, but are going to be out there in a really big way over the coming, you know, quarters and years.”
Travis Kalanick Sep 12, 2024 ▶ 5:16 Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024
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