Recently Uber CEO Dara Khosrowashahi has comment on the Tesla ambitious Robotaxi and self driving. He explained how Tesla is underestimating the complexity of running a customer fleet-based Robotaxi ride-hailing service.
It is evident that Tesla is working on Robotaxi and self-driving technology. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already talked about the automaker solving self-driving and enabling its fleet of million of customer vehicles to be onboarded on Tesla-run Robotaxi ride-hailing service.
Also early this year Tesla has teases us with it’s autonomous ride-hailing app.
He described Tesla owners driving to work and then sending their cars off to give autonomous rides to people while they are at work.
On the Logan Barlett Show podcast (via Fortune), CEO of ride-hailing leader Uber Dara Khosrowashahi commented, on Tesla’s potential entry in his market and he also highlighted some problems with the automakers approach:
“Probably the times at which you’re going to want your Tesla are probably going to be the same times that ridership is going to be at a peak. There are these peaks and valleys in terms of supply and demand.”
He also put question that weather the average Tesla owner is going to want to let their vehicle being used by strangers on the network- “It’s also not clear to me that the average Tesla owner or owner of the other car, is going to want to have that car be ridden by a complete stranger.”
On the podcast he also added that it’s not so easy to build the entire customer service infrastructure for both the drivers and riders, or vehicle owners and riders in Tesla’s case, “ We’ve has to learn to build out a system that’s able to make everything work for both the rider and the driver. It’s taken us 15 years of hardship. It’s taken us tens of billions of dollars of capital.”
However at the end of his comment Khosrowashahi admits that self-driving is the future of automakers industry and he could see Uber partnering with Tesla one day.
