Why is it we want one car to do everything?
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People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.
We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.
When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.
The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.
Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.
There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.
I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car.
At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.
Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.