[startupfounder]

This is the Uber/Lyft/Taxi killer.

Imagine paying $2-4 for a ride in a Tesla for what used to cost you $25-$30 in an Uber or cab.

97% of the cost of an Uber ride goes towards paying the driver, fuel and Uber fees, 3% (or less) goes towards the lease costs.

A Tesla lease is only ~$0.73/hour ($~12,000/yr), including recharging.

[forgetsusername]

>This is the Uber/Lyft/Taxi killer.

Uh, what is?

This shows a car automatically backing in and out of a garage. I think it's a stretch to call it "summoning" your car, let alone an automated, self-driving taxi system. Yet you think this is the Uber killer?

I don't understand why people act like everything Tesla does is positively earth-shattering. Ford has had software to parallel park your car for, oh, about 5 years. That seems a lot more practical than standing outside and having your car pull out of the garage for you, but that's just me. I don't even understand the use case for this, unless your garage is so narrow you can't open the car door.

[mapmap]

Eventually, your Tesla will be able to drive anywhere across the country to meet you, charging itself along the way.

While I applaud their ambition, that statement certainly escalated quickly from autonomously leaving a garage.

[achamayou]

Early demos of speech recognition software come to mind.

There's quite a big difference between a nice demo in controlled conditions and a serious replacement for a cumbersome, thought to be obsolete, but ultimately irreplaceable entity like a keyboard or a human driver.

As a driver, I really hope they make good on their claims. But they're not even close at the moment.

[Cshelton]

Oh...you don't accidentally leave your car in NY when you're in LA ...just me then?

This was a joke

It is a large step, let's just get it to drive me to and from work first!

[to3m]

The faithful need periodic reminders of the vision of the future into which they are buying.

[TheBiv]

Aside from the Tesla lease being ~$1.37/hr (as analyst74 points out), you would never be paying that amount per hour because that assumes 100% utilization of the car and absolutely zero cost for the person/business who owns the Tesla (and also provides no margin for the owner).

The cost would be no where near that per hour amount once you factor in everything needed for someone or some business owning a Tesla.

[gozur88]

That's today, though. If Musk can actually get the model 3 down to $35k it should be cheaper.

[nopzor]

But still, as the previous poster pointed out that rate is still zero overhead and zero profit.

Plus, if you did use that rate and could somehow achieve 24hr utilization, you'd presumably be putting on ~1000 miles per day on the car. At 365,000 miles per year, that's going to millions of miles during your "lease".

You'll probably go through quite a few batteries and quite a few cars during your "lease".

[Cshelton]

Uber/Lyft/etc...This has been the end game since the ride sharing economy started. Hail an autonomous car to take you wherever you want to go for a very low price. It will make owning and driving your own car obsolete. In fact, with the insurance companies, very few people will be able to afford their own car/drive it in populated areas. I can see some parts of large cities banning all non-autonomous cars altogether for traffic and safety reasons.

Uber is very much planning for this, it's the end game. Travis has even verbally told Elon that'd he'd buy $500 million worth of Tesla's if they are fully autonomous by 2020.

[analyst74]

Your math is a little off. it should be $1.37/hr, assuming 24 * 365 in a year.

But then the comparison is a little off as well, since you wouldn't ever have a Uber standing by for you 24/7.

[Falling3]

I've been using Car2Go often for the past few weeks. That's $0.41/minute for me to driving myself. Granted, it would be more efficient if I could request a car wherever I happen to be, but I'm not we'd see such a tremendous reduction in cost like you've outlined.

[SonicSoul]

perhaps I missed the memo. Tesla's are now available on hourly lease? for cents per hour? in my reality a shitty zipcar compact will run you $25/hr (likely much more unless you return it exactly at the predicted time).

[vernie]

Apt username.