Tesla

“We don't think Tesla's gonna try to do this himself. Elon Musk is not about creating city to city transit. Right now, one of his biggest focuses is automizing manufacturing, and there's a lot of focus on that from Tesla and the rest of his companies, that we d…”

“As of right now, they haven't drawn that line, and we are, in somewhat collaborating with Tesla, they're aware of what's happening, they're aware we're using it for commercial use, and right now they haven't said anything about that, and there are a lot of peo…”

“You did it in the name Tesloop, and I think that if you got really big, either Tesla's gonna buy you, or they're going to shut you down on that name. Cause it's definitely trademark infringement.”

“And for strategic reasons, Uber can't really work with Tesla because then Tesla would have All of the information to their sensory data, and Uber would have none of that, so they'd be kind of losing all of the information about their cars.”

“They will not permit Tesla's self-driving technology to be used on any ride-sharing service except for their own.”

“I don't know the exact details, but that, that announcement wasn't fully true because it doesn't actually eliminate us from using their autonomous ride sharing. There's some weird clauses in there that actually do let us proceed with everything that we're doin…”

“The first is that for the next four years, this can only be done on Teslas. They have the only platform with big batteries and supercharging and nice cars that allows this model to happen.”

“If you scale up and you've got a hundred cars on the road to Palm Springs every day, and the other Tesla drivers who are not commercial drivers cannot get a supercharger, I guarantee you Tesla is gonna say, no commercial use, you are not allowed to use our sta…”

“Well, how I see it, at least in the short run, we're really, we're doing Tesla a favor, because when you look at the numbers of Tesla's test drives, and how they're trying to get customers in their cars, we're actually introducing a lot more people into Tesla'…”

“So I brought the idea up with Elon Musk at the shareholders meeting in 2015, and at that point he assured me that Tesla would pay for all of the fuel costs for long distance travel in the Model S forever.”