Andrew Miller

Everyone will have more efficient trips.

And then the average American says, go pound sand.

I like being alone.

I like my privacy.

I don't want to share my space with strangers.

I'm going to be in a robotaxi alone, and if you won't let me do that, then I will buy my own car, and it can drive me around.

So the question is how we thread that needle between what a planning future of efficient use and the overwhelming revealed preference.

The trick there is liability.

You can imagine a world where Tesla's going all in on complete self-driving, but the conventional automakers, your VWs and your Fords, particularly your GMs, they would love for you to have every year that driving assist gets more and more sophisticated.

The steering wheel never goes away, but it can handle more and more of your daily driving until...

Yeah.

In 10, 12 years, you could imagine if we solve the liability issue, it can be doing your driving almost all the time.

There's no reason a privately owned vehicle, if you're willing to pay for it, can't have all of these sensor systems to make it work.

And if Waymo leads the charge and makes LIDAR rigs incredibly cheap, everyone's going to pile on that.

So I drive a Tesla personally.

You hear a lot about these levels, level three, level four, level five.

I think that that sort of language is misleading.

All you need to understand about self-driving is does it require a human to be actively monitoring the situation or does it not?

But if I turn on autopilot in my privately owned Tesla, I need to be keeping my foot on the brake and my hands on the wheel and my eyes on the road at all times.

The car can handle most situations, but some it can't.