Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi believes his company will be the dominant autonomous ride-hailing platform before the decade expires.
In a new episode of the Moonshots podcast with Peter H. Diamandis, the Uber chief executive says he expects the firm to scale autonomous rides faster than competitors.
“And by 2029, we think that we will facilitate more autonomous and robo-taxi rides than anyone else in the world.”
To support Uber’s goal, Khosrowshahi says he’s open to working with Tesla, while putting the ball in Elon Musk’s court.
“I think Elon’s approach typically has been a vertical approach. They even own their own refinery. Again, when the day comes, when those Teslas are safe with a camera-only approach, we’d love to have those Teslas on our platform as well. We’ve got tens of thousands of Teslas on our platform now. And some of our drivers use FSD (full self-driving). So we’ve got a lot of data. It’s a great car. It’s a safe car. We’d love to work with them. As to whether we will or will not is TBD.”
Khosrowshahi adds that Uber can team up with other firms in an effort to dominate autonomous rides.
“But there are plenty of other partners in the space. And we think there are going to be many, many winners.”
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