The truth about ride-sharing with your Tesla

[CricTic]

Hi all - I thought the press (and others) were being a little unfair about the "restrictions" around ride-sharing for profit with your self-driving Tesla, so I wrote an article about it.

Please let me know what you think, or if I got anything wrong.

https://medium.com/@anirbahn/the-truth-about-ride-sharing-with-your-tesla-de33900b9db0#.78btjje5r

 

[ecarfan]

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[CricTic]

Hi all - I thought the press (and others) were being a little unfair about the "restrictions" around ride-sharing for profit with your self-driving Tesla, so I wrote an article about it.

Please let me know what you think, or if I got anything wrong.

Odd that the link isn't working - how can I edit my post?

Try this link ...

The truth about ride-sharing with your Tesla - Medium

 

[Discoducky]

Link works for me! and Tesla is building an ecosystem, but I wonder how much of a walled garden that ecosystem will ultimately be. We may say a better example of this with Superchargers first.

In theory, Tesla could expand to 3rd party ride sharing as they would only need to expose a set of capabilities through a secure API. But this is not trivial work and does expose Tesla to extra liability as they give up some control.

To know Elon however, is to know that Tesla does want to own the whole stack and I highly anticipate that Tesla will attempt to wall off ride sharing.

 

[electracity]

Musk is talking ride sharing because he wants Uber's valuation. Ride sharing ain't happening in 2018.

 

[jdw]

I think you nailed it, thank you!