“Grasp Plan, Half Deux” was the primary concrete point out of a Tesla robotaxi. The 2016 weblog publish, which is now not revealed on the automaker’s web site, outlined an idea the place Tesla homeowners might add their automobile to a self-driving rideshare fleet to utterly offset the acquisition or lease value. Musk wrote:
“When true self-driving is authorized by regulators, it’ll imply that it is possible for you to to summon your Tesla from just about wherever. As soon as it picks you up, it is possible for you to to sleep, learn or do anything enroute to your vacation spot.”
“Additionally, you will have the ability to add your automobile to the Tesla shared fleet simply by tapping a button on the Tesla cellphone app and have it generate earnings for you whilst you’re at work or on trip, considerably offsetting and at occasions probably exceeding the month-to-month mortgage or lease value. This dramatically lowers the true value of possession to the purpose the place virtually anybody might personal a Tesla. Since most automobiles are solely in use by their proprietor for five% to 10% of the day, the basic financial utility of a real self-driving automobile is more likely to be a number of occasions that of a automobile which isn’t.”
“In cities the place demand exceeds the availability of customer-owned automobiles, Tesla will function its personal fleet, making certain you may all the time hail a journey from us irrespective of the place you might be.”
