ELON MUSK: babu88 (babu88bd.pro) By the middle of next year, we’ll have over a million Tesla cars on the road with Full Self-Driving hardware, feature complete at a reliably level that we would consider that no one needs to pay attention, meaning you could go to sleep in your - from our standpoint, if you fast for a year - maybe a year, maybe a year and three months, but next year for sure - we will have over a million robotaxis on the road. ELON MUSK: The basic thought is, is there a better way to travel quickly from, say, downtown LA to downtown San Francisco - LA to San Francisco - that’s better than the high-speed rail that’s being proposed? I don’t know if Elon ever rewarded the guy or helped him out in any way. He knew he had to get out of it so he could really start juicing the hype around Tesla and its share price. Eberhard told her the impetus for starting Tesla was that he wanted a new sports car after getting divorced, saw the Iraq war going on over oil and the growing threat of climate change, and wondered why he couldn’t get an electric one.