There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?
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We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.
I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.
People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.
What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.
It's not fair that people save and work and pay for phones from whatever funds they have, and other people get them for free.
At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.
I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.
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.