Tesla just laid out its transportation mission: World domination
Source: Business Insider ·
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he thinks the world will travel predominantly by autonomous car. Now, he says most of those cars will be Teslas.
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Elon Musk has said he thinks the world will switch over to autonomous driving tech. He ramped up that prediction on Wednesday.Andrew Harnik/Getty Images - Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty ImagesElon Musk has repeatedly said cars will drive themselves around the world.Now, he's making a bolder claim: Tesla will dominate that autonomy, he predicts.The only thing that could get in the way, Musk says: these pesky governments!Tesla CEO Elon Musk famously thinks bots will drive us around.On Wednesday, he took that long-running vision of autonomy a step further. During the automaker's earnings call, Musk predicted that Tesla itself would dominate how passengers get around — so long as pesky regulators don't get in the way."I think Tesla will end up doing a majority of all passenger miles on Earth in any country where it is allowed to operate freely," he said. "And you can come back and look at this prediction, but I feel confident about this prediction."He said Tesla's…