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[uksausage]

appreciating the dialogue here, thank you.

If they do provide a drivable model 2 the whole unattended taxi concept may have a better chance of being accepted in a wider market as the passengers could take over if necessary. I have seen a broken down robo taxi already (at the wright brothers memorial in Kitty Hawk NC) where a driverless electric shuttle was being used - not sure why it was broken down I was using my two feet… but there were 4 people jus standing there looking at the shuttle with no way to do anything with it.

There are so many unknowns about the driverless business - who cleans up the mess previous passengers left behind? What if you "lent" your model y to the service and you now need it for an emergency but it is 50 miles away…? What if you forgot you had lent it and you left it in your garage and it starts driving itself...

Its going to be fascinating watching this potential market try to get started and we know Elon is the sort of person to achieve it if he isn't being distracted by his new role or the SpaceX/Starlink IPO.

I’m sure Cathy wood is valuing Optimus and it will be good for some factory type tasks (where current robots aren't affordable/practical) and possibly office but Im not sure of the mass market residential use..