1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,880 Your ultimate authority for daily Elon Musk news. 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,520 Exploring the world's biggest ideas with your host Will 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,240 Walden. There's something new every day. 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,640 The future of. Tesla is going to be 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,480 interesting. Elon Musk. 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,560 Plans to change Tesla's. Future by. 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,840 Pushing it toward artificial intelligence and robotics. 8 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,520 And that raises a. Question Can Tesla? 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,920 Really transform from a car company, a great car company, 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,960 into a leader in autonomous systems. 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,840 Now Tesla. Started 22 years ago with a 12 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,720 simple plan that didn't depend on breakthroughs and battery 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,960 technology the founders believed they could create. 14 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,840 EVs by. Combining proven components in 15 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,400 new ways, they relied on lithium ion. 16 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,480 Batteries similar to. Those used in laptops and built 17 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:54,240 battery packs from. Thousands of small cells. 18 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,320 Now, this approach allowed Tesla to succeed. 19 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,280 Where traditional automakers had failed with heavy and. 20 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,519 Inefficient lead acid. Batteries now Elon Musk now 21 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:05,760 wants to. Take Tesla. 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,160 In a different path, he no longer focuses primarily on 23 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,040 making EVs driven by people. Instead, he wants Tesla to 24 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,840 become a robotics company that builds driverless cars and 25 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,960 humanoid robots. He believes this move will help 26 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:23,600 Tesla stay. Valued like a technology company 27 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 rather than an automaker. Musk expects. 28 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,920 To launch public robo taxi services very soon on June. 22nd 29 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,720 with a small fleet in Austin, TX they set this. 30 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,600 Possible launch date of the 20. 2nd but Musk. 31 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,240 Recently warmed that they. May delay this. 32 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:45,240 Timeline if safety concerns arise and Tesla's early success 33 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,040 came from using software and engineering to make lithium ion 34 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,000 battery pack safe and reliable gave the company a strong lead 35 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,840 before competitors recognize the potential of these batteries 36 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,560 now. Musk hopes Tesla can use its. 37 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,080 Manufacturing expertise to integrate artificial 38 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,680 intelligence more so. Into the vehicles. 39 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,720 And unlike the company's earlier strategy of using existing parts 40 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,160 creatively, Tesla has spent years building its own AI 41 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,920 systems for self driving tech. Now Tesla's FSD. 42 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,400 System and autopilot features show how far the. 43 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,680 Company has come. However, Tesla admits that 44 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,920 these. Systems are not fully, truly 45 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:26,360 autonomous, and drivers remain legally responsible for their 46 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,640 vehicles. And Elon Musk argues that Tesla 47 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,600 holds an advantage over competitors. 48 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,920 Because its fleet. Provides valuable real world 49 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:36,760 data. The data helps the company 50 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,120 improve its AI systems. Faster than rivals? 51 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,760 And companies like Waymo and GM. Have also worked. 52 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,080 On driverless technology, but their efforts are kind of 53 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,320 limited. GM stopped its robo. 54 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,480 Taxi plans because of high costs. 55 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:55,080 And Waymo operates a modest fleet of around 1500 to 2000 56 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,240 vehicles. Number is similar to GM's failed 57 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:03,040 EV1 program from over 25 years ago, which helped inspire 58 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,960 Tesla's creation in the first place. 59 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,040 And now? Tesla's robust. 60 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,360 Taxis project. Depends heavily on turning its 61 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,200 production values. Into autonomous taxis. 62 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,480 Musk claims that every Tesla rolling off the line today is 63 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,360 capable of unsupervised self driving. 64 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,480 He shared footage of a Tesla Model Y driving without anyone 65 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,160 in the front seat during tests in Austin Now. 66 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,800 Despite these demonstrations. Musk remains. 67 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,640 Cautious, he said. Tesla's initial. 68 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:35,640 Launch will be small. Possibly with about. 10 69 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:40,000 robotaxis operating in the 1st. Week he expects to scale this up 70 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,680 to thousands. Of vehicles within months and 71 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,520 aims to have hundreds of thousands or even a million on 72 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:50,440 the road by the end of 2026 now. Musk's public statements about 73 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,600 Tesla safety priorities. Reflect the difficulties of 74 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,640 delivering. Autonomous vehicles at scale, he 75 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,080 said. The company is super paranoid. 76 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,080 About safety, Which? Means that the robotaxi launch 77 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,440 could face further delays. Tesla's competitors, including 78 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:05,560 Waymo and. Zooks. 79 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,800 Have already demonstrated cars on public roads without drivers 80 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,800 behind the wheel. With. 10s of thousands of rides 81 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:17,920 for Waymo and in some surveys people prefer an autonomous 82 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,960 Waymo to an Uber where some person is driving now. 83 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:27,200 Zooks and Waymo have already demonstrated cars on public 84 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,720 roads without drivers behind the wheel, but their technology 85 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,000 remains complex and far from widespread. 86 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,520 Even Waymo's limited fleet has not come close to the 87 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,720 commercial. Success of Google score business 88 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,360 but. Test The shift toward AI marks a 89 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,120 major change from its founding principles. 90 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,400 The company originally succeeded by rethinking how to combine. 91 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,040 The existing technologies. But now they're creating their 92 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,320 own technologies, they're creating their own AI and 93 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,520 they're relying on large scale deployment of self driving cars. 94 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:08,080 But now we haven't seen Tesla make self driving into a major 95 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,000 part of its business. Elon. 96 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,560 Musk's confidence in Tesla's. AI technology rests on the 97 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,760 company's production scale and data advantage, but challenges 98 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,240 and safety regulation and public acceptance remain. 99 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,440 Now, the future of Tesla. Now depends on whether. 100 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:28,120 Musk's AI vision can deliver real results. 101 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,400 Remember a few years ago when? Zuckerberg was. 102 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,360 Talking about the metaverse and then where is the metaverse? 103 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:41,280 We were never in the metaverse. All the. 3D headsets all the. 104 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:43,440 Virtual. Reality, that was. 105 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:49,560 Top of the line for a few years and now it's bottom of the 106 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,520 barrel. Nobody really uses it in a real 107 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,880 world application other than engineers and you know, it kind 108 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,160 of niche things. It's a fun thing to play around 109 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,840 with, but. Zuckerberg was talking. 110 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,880 About how everybody was going to have a headset and we're all 111 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,560 going to live and work in the metaverse and Apple made a 112 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,480 headset and. Elon Musk doesn't. 113 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,520 Want to be that he. Knows that his. 114 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,360 AI Vision can deliver. Real results, that's what he 115 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,480 believes The company's focus has moved. 116 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,920 From making. EVs accessible to. 117 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,360 Building a network of driverless cars. 118 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,600 All of their manufacturers have some sort of EV in the pipeline 119 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,200 if they don't already have some on the road, and this took them 120 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,480 a decade or two. To figure this out so. 121 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,040 If Elon keeps making these moves with Tesla and moving forward 122 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:39,720 with. Tesla. 123 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,840 They're also going to be 20 years behind by the time. 124 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:47,760 All of this happens so. Somebody like Ford or GM? 125 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,040 Who is? Barely making. 126 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:54,280 EVs at this. Point they don't have an AI 127 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:57,440 division. They don't have anything to 128 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,400 compete with Musk right now. As. 129 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:05,840 XAI, he has x.com or X if you want to call it that, and both 130 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:09,160 of them have an AI component and now all of that is being rolled. 131 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:10,480 Into Tesla. Tesla has the. 132 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,960 Data from all of the driving from other people. 133 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,480 They have some sensors they. Don't have Lidar, which Waymo 134 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,520 has and in. Tests as we've. 135 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:24,040 Seen if you look around on YouTube you'll find. 136 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,800 A Tesla versus. Lidar. 137 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,720 Just look that up and you can see for yourself how Tesla has 138 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,000 failed against. Lidar in numerous circumstances 139 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,360 and their. Videos of Tesla's. 140 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,920 Just running through. Dummies and mannequins on the 141 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,400 side of school buses. Things like that. 142 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,480 And it's, you know. Part of it is that some of the. 143 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,440 Sensors in Tesla don't match up to the way that Waymo's sensors 144 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,000 work, and that's. What Elon Musk is talking about 145 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,800 when he's talking about Tesla being cautious. 146 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,080 He wants them to be. Extremely cautious. 147 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,680 Because if. Anything happens right away. 148 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,600 With these Austin tests, that's why they're starting small. 149 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,600 He's saying something like a dozen. 150 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,800 Cars on the road, robo taxis in the first week. 151 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:12,440 Which is a. Totally. 152 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,160 Fine test set. But he wants to upgrade. 153 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,200 This to thousands of vehicles within. 154 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,120 Months so you. Don't just start off with. 10 155 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,080 operational robo taxis. In a week. 156 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,520 And then within months you get to. 157 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,400 Thousands of vehicles. Usually it would go from like 10 158 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:38,919 robo taxis in Austin to 20, 30-40 within months. 159 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:44,240 Plus there's also regulatory hurdles, so if you're good in. 160 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,840 Austin it doesn't. Mean you're going to be good in 161 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,360 Arkansas, so to speak, or you're not going to get robo taxis in 162 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,000 New York City. Thousands of robo taxis in New 163 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,920 York City, or. San Francisco, OR. 164 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,440 LA OR. Small cities like Buffalo, or. 165 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,160 Someplace like Orlando, you're not going to get. 166 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,240 Robo taxis there because there. Are different regulatory? 167 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,640 Hurdles per state and also per city. 168 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,400 So if he wants to have. Thousands of robo taxis. 169 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:17,040 In Austin that. Seems like it would be less of 170 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:17,960 a. Hurdle than trying. 171 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,960 To go to these different States and different cities so he also. 172 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,040 Wants to have hundreds of thousands or even 1,000,000 by 173 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:29,160 the end of next year. A million vehicles on the road. 174 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,680 Now, if he's talking about. Robotaxi capable vehicles. 175 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,400 Where a. Current vehicle could. 176 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,480 Be set up with software to. Become a robotaxi and the owner 177 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,560 of that vehicle. Which he stated in the past, he 178 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:46,880 stated. This for years that everybody 179 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,560 that. Owns a Tesla when it's. 180 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:55,000 When you're not driving it, you can loan it out and you can make 181 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,400 it into a robotaxi and you can make money while. 182 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,120 It just sits there. He said it's going to free up 183 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:01,880 so. Many Teslas to. 184 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,520 Do other things instead of sitting in a driveway or sitting 185 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,240 in a parking lot and wasting away. 186 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,440 Instead it could be on the road doing work for you, making you 187 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,240 money autonomously. But that. 188 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,120 Also is. Full of regulatory. 189 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,360 Hurdles so hundreds of. Thousands of vehicles or even 190 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,600 1,000,000 by the end of next year. 191 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,280 Sure, they. Might be capable. 192 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:30,640 But will the regulatory statutes allow them to drive on the 193 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,600 roads? That's. 194 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,720 To be seen and. We don't know what's going on. 195 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,880 Behind the scenes with Tesla. And. 196 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,400 In the cities. And States and towns throughout 197 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,400 the country. So it could take. 198 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,680 Maybe not months to do this. It could possibly take them 199 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:50,560 years. Waymo. 200 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,560 Is only in a. Few cities right now. 201 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,840 I think they're in five cities and it took them years to get 202 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,600 there and they have proven technology. 203 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,400 SpaceX or not SpaceX, Tesla has. Proven data from drivers, but 204 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,440 they don't have proven robotaxi rides. 205 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,120 Yet so. The fact that that hasn't 206 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,400 happened yet and the fact that Elon is saying. 207 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,920 Hundreds of. Thousands, possibly a million 208 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,240 vehicles on the road being robotaxis. 209 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,840 I don't think that's going to happen in one year. 210 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:26,200 Look, I'm. Call me skeptic. 211 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,120 I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. 212 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:29,800 But Elon Musk has promised things in the. 213 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,680 Past that haven't happened at the scale. 214 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:37,760 That he wants them to happen Like when he was officially and 215 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,080 originally starting the Starship program he was saying somewhere 216 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:49,560 around the 20/24/2020. 6:00-ish Twenty. 28 launch to Mars and 217 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,240 from start with Starship and he was saying absolutely, we're 218 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,600 going to do this now. It looks like he's. 219 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,520 Still saying this in during his last talk he was saying that 220 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,440 they're going to make it there. Starship really hasn't made it 221 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,280 past Earth, hasn't made it to orbit yet, hasn't done a full 222 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,400 orbit yet. We're in 2025 and he has. 223 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,840 To launch this by 2026, he. Wants to launch it to Mars. 224 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,800 There's a possibility. But he doesn't have to. 225 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:20,480 Worry about the hurdles from the government, the red tape from 226 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,840 every city, every town, every municipality, every highway 227 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,880 department. Every state that. 228 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:31,760 He wants to get these robo taxis in the The scale that he wants 229 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,920 is unfathomable. Can he? 230 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,600 Do it. Yeah, maybe he'd have a couple 231 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,920 100, but. Hundreds of thousands of 232 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,520 vehicles on the road. That seems like a huge stretch. 233 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,720 If you're on a podcast platform that has comments, let me know 234 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,880 in the comments what you think about this. 235 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,760 I think it's. A great idea to have a million. 236 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,680 Vehicles that you can just. Hop into. 237 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,800 I wouldn't need a car anymore. I could just call a Tesla. 238 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,760 And have it pick me up and take me wherever I want to go. 239 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,360 Drive around for a little while. That would be great. 240 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:08,440 Maybe I go to the beach. Maybe I go downtown. 241 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,280 You know, same thing. With the Uber. 242 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,520 Also if you're. Interested in driving for Uber? 243 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,320 You can make a good amount of money. 244 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,000 We're driving for Uber if you're yeah, if you have a vehicle and 245 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:23,880 you also just. Need need some. 246 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,960 Spare cash Like if you want some spare money to go out to dinner 247 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:29,440 to drive Uber on the. Weekends make a. 248 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,400 Couple 100 bucks make. 50 bucks, whatever. 249 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,200 Drive for a couple hours on the. Weekends make a. 250 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,280 Make a little side scratch. There's a link in the 251 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,360 description or the show notes and that'll get you into the 252 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,320 program and you get a little kickback. 253 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,360 I get a little bit of money for that too. 254 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,320 Not a lot, but. It does help out the show. 255 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,080 So if you can sign up, if you're thinking about it, I've done it 256 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,240 in the past and I'll tell you what, man, it's fun. 257 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,680 Get to be some really interesting people and all 258 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:58,560 you're doing is driving. It's like if you're if you just 259 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:00,680 want something. To to do to pass some time. 260 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,240 And you don't don't really want to think driving Uber. 261 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:05,640 Is definitely the way to. Go. 262 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,960 It's really fun. So Elon is right. 263 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,280 On the precipice. Of doing something amazing if 264 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,120 this all works out. And his public statements about 265 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,720 Tesla's safety. Priorities show that. 266 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,240 There's difficulties of. Delivering Autonomous. 267 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,120 Vehicles at scale. He's been saying that. 268 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,840 He's super paranoid about safety. 269 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,960 Which means. That the Robo taxi launch could. 270 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,240 Face further delays. Because when they do these. 10 271 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:35,800 test vehicles. They're. 272 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,800 Going to gather some real world data and it's going to be in a 273 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,640 small part of Austin too. It's not going to be over the 274 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,480 whole city, not going to be on the highways. 275 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:43,120 It's going. To be on. 276 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:47,560 A loop of streets that they know that they have the data for 277 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,720 already so they're. Going to be. 278 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,920 Gathering data from these robo taxis and they're going to have 279 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:54,720 to scale. This. 280 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,480 To a point where. It's unheard of to scale this 281 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,160 fast. Can they scale this fast? 282 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:05,240 There's a possibility, but. There's always he has to work 283 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,280 with the towns and the cities and that's the part that's going 284 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,960 to hold him back. You know, Zooks way, MO. 285 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,440 They've already demonstrated cars on public roads without 286 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,960 drivers behind the wheel, but their technology is very 287 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:22,040 complex. We MO's limited fleet is, you 288 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,600 know they're making money, but they're also they're. 289 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:29,320 Also. Not producing. 290 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,560 The types of rides. That will make. 291 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,000 The sorry the. Scale of rides that will make 292 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,720 them billions of dollars which they need to do it in order to 293 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:39,240 keep this program going. But the thing. 294 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,000 Is. Google owns Waymo. 295 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:46,080 Google does this. So Google has it as a sort of 296 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,800 like a side project. They want to make this work, but 297 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,720 the. Other thing is. 298 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,560 They're going to make sure that they use. 299 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,360 This data. From these rides. 300 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,960 To license this technology. To other car manufacturers in 301 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,240 the. Future SO. 302 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:06,360 Lidar, the radars, things like that, the data that they gather 303 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,880 from this, they're not going to keep to themselves. 304 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,560 They're going. To use it. 305 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:17,240 With manufacturers GM, Ford, etcetera and Audi I've heard 306 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,360 plans of maybe. Porsches influence. 307 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,160 There with Waymo and their technologies and. 308 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:27,880 We'll see what happens though, because Tesla is. 309 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:29,560 Just going to keep it in Tesla. They're going to keep all the 310 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:30,920 money to themselves. They're not going to license 311 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,640 anything as far as we know. Elon said he's open to it, but 312 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,080 he needs to. Have the lead first. 313 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,480 He has to have a crazy lead before. 314 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,320 He actually licenses. Anything to anybody else, but 315 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,080 you know, future of Tesla really does depend. 316 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,360 On. The AI vision that Musk is 317 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,120 portraying with these driverless cars. 318 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,760 Companies focus has. Moved from building electric. 319 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:04,079 Vehicles, which is amazing. And, you know, one of the one of 320 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,680 the biggest breakthroughs in technology in the last 20 years, 321 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,400 but now they're going to be building a network of driverless 322 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,240 cars. The success or the failure of 323 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,119 the strategy? Will shape. 324 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,240 Tesla's future, but also it'll shape. 325 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:24,160 Robotics. It'll shape other companies that 326 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,680 build parts for robotics. It'll shape industries as a 327 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,400 whole, and also shape. Cities of the future. 328 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:36,280 Which will become manufacturing hubs like Austin is for robotics 329 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,920 and AI. Now they're proving the 330 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:44,760 artificial intelligence can move beyond just the lab, beyond 331 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,120 hackers, making AIA more viable product for everybody. 332 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,760 Beyond. The lab tests. 333 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,560 And make it into everyday life. At a scale. 334 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,760 That no one else has ever achieved. 335 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:02,840 Henry Ford built the automobile into a massive business. 336 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,920 Elon Musk has built EVs. Into a massive business. 337 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:09,920 And he's. Planning on building. 338 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:15,240 Driverless cars. Into an even bigger business and 339 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,240 I for one really excited about the future of driverless 340 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,640 vehicles. Hey, thank you. 341 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,320 So much for listening today, I really do appreciate your 342 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:25,840 support. If you could take a second and 343 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,800 hit the subscribe or the follow button on whatever podcast 344 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,080 platform that you're listening on. 345 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:32,520 Right. 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