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Robotaxi's are especially interesting because once they're working on their own properly, Tesla has the capacity and funding to spread them nationwide in a relatively short while, much faster than waymo could ever do.

All they have to do is get them working without a safety monitor first...



> Tesla has the capacity and funding to spread them nationwide

Musk’s politics mean these won’t be approved in big cities easily.


So Waymo…


Yeah but Waymo's aren't cost competitive, so you can't really spread them across the country until the price comes down. Tesla has already finished and demonstrated they can produce millions of their product a year, and so when they really figure it out they could absolutely explode


Except they are, they’re rolling out new cities all the time.


If they figure it out before losing the market




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