[pwaai]

This makes me think and I'm pretty excited about it...

How far off/difficult would it be for Tesla to create their own ride sharing app?

I mean both Lyft and Ubers "moat" seems to be their app which is not defensible against a market leader in autonomous cars that can simply switch on a new marketplace for its userbase and whole lot of other folks that can't afforda tesla but wants to be picked up and dropped off by one.

Would it be far fetched to see Tesla's market cap will combine Uber and Lyft on top of their existing market cap.

I mean it's a matter of time for Tesla...thanks to Uber's aggressive campaign efforts in spreading ride sharing, city management will be more than familiar and open to new innovators....plus Elon Musk's reputation (he might outsource some SpaceX to your city, you never know) riding him to the stratosphere....

[fragmede]

> How far off/difficult would it be for Tesla to create their own ride sharing app?

Tesla's suburban HQ in the hills may be less appropriate (due to lack of density), or possibly more (easier to drive in suburbia vs the city), but at least one other manufacturer - Cruise, now owned by GM, is running internal trials, with hopes of opening it up soon.

https://readwrite.com/2017/08/10/cruise-self-driving-app/

[pwaai]

so not very difficult and not far off either it seems. It must've been an existential crisis for Uber to go as far as try and steal it from Waymo, allegedly. It seems they underestimated just how difficult and expensive it can be....perhaps that $2 billion dollar burn rate could've been allocated better.