Robotaxis pit Tesla against Uber 1/2/25
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tesla shares are down today after its first ever reported drop in annual deliveries. |
| 0:05.1 | But the company's key value heading into 2025 could really be in its robotaxy technology. |
| 0:09.9 | Deer Jir Jorbosa has more on what to expect in today's tech check D. |
| 0:13.7 | And right on cue, all the bullish analysts like Dan Nives are saying, that's why you have the stock. |
| 0:18.6 | And that's what Elon Musk has said before himself. |
| 0:20.9 | It's all about robo-taxies, right? |
| 0:22.8 | And so that sets up Tesla versus Uber, Robotaxies versus RideShare, |
| 0:27.5 | as one of the most interesting or compelling battles of 2025. |
| 0:32.3 | Take a look at how Tesla and Uber shares have performed since Tesla's October 10th Robotaxi event. As Tesla shares surged |
| 0:40.0 | on excitement over its Robotaxy plans, Uber moved in the opposite direction, reflecting |
| 0:44.7 | an inverse relationship as investors weighed the impact of Tesla's innovations on Uber's business |
| 0:49.9 | model. Now, Uber Bulls, they argue that displacement fears are overblown. It's entrenched network, |
| 0:56.2 | makes it an attractive partner for Robotaxies, offering fleet management or a combination of |
| 1:01.2 | human and robot drivers that will boost reliability. But that position, it's really been |
| 1:06.7 | undermined in recent months by Alphabet subsidiary Waymo, the current dominant player in |
| 1:11.8 | Robotaxies. Now, at first, Waymo did offer some hope partnering with Uber for its driverless |
| 1:17.0 | fleets in Atlanta and Austin. But then, as Waymo expanded its network, it left Uber behind, |
| 1:23.2 | partnering with a fleet management startup in Miami, a local taxi company in Tokyo. Meanwhile, |
| 1:28.9 | Tesla's Robotaxi Vision doesn't rely on any partners. An Airbnb on wheels is how Musk has |
| 1:35.2 | described it. And while Musk has, indeed, long overpromised and underdelivered on this front, |
| 1:41.4 | there has been significant progress on FSD technology, which will |
| 1:45.2 | underpin those robotaxies. There was a chart from Altimeter Capital showing a 1,000-fold |
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