News about Elon Musk, Tesla

I can't stress enough how much Elon talking about imminent robotaxis in 2024 sounds like Elon talking about imminent robotaxis in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018. Here's a piece I wrote five years ago about Tesla's unrealistic autonomy timeline. arstechnica.com/cars/2019/04/teslas-autonomy-event-impressive-progress-with-an-unrealistic-timeline/

I think the biggest news today is that Tesla is launching a ride-hailing service with human drivers. This is probably because Elon wants more people to experience the Supervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature. The idea seems to be to increase demand for vehicle sales. See pages… pic.twitter.com/ZY4AhrWwjf

Here's an interesting detail from the shareholder letter: Tesla (April 2024): 'We are currently working on ride-hailing functionality that will be available in the future.' Source: digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/TSLA-Q1-2024-Update.pdf A few years ago, Ark Invest suggested that Tesla could create a… pic.twitter.com/Sait29v3Es

If Tesla gains +12% in one day because it is announced that some models will come earlier, what will happen when it becomes known that autonomous vehicles will be introduced in the first 🇺🇸 US states?