RE: No Drivers Required....ANYWHERE
Cheaper than any 5-10 year old average Merc?
Let me see the 5-10 year old car is paid for, the EV has to be purchased...
How exactly is it cheaper?
As for Elon, he is doing great things but your numbers are way off. There ar roughly 85M new cars sold in the world. Elon's Tesla, which I own stock in as a disclaimer, will be lucky to be doing 1M-1.5M new cars a year in 3 years time and he is the largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the world.
To get to roughly 76 million new cars in the next 3-4 years, the EV market would require over 2000% growth annually....there were 750K sold around the world in 2016...even 100% annual growth only puts that at 6M in three years.....nowhere near the 90% you propose.
I appreciate your optimism and it is the future, but not in three years. It will take a decade to filter through.
Elon is not the only one doing this. Not to mw tion the second you switch the other auto dealers it will quick. Maybe longer than 3. But when the self driving cars out your going to have vehicles that last longer and don't get in accidents near is often that's won't need replacing or fixing anywhere near as often.
Not to mention other forms of transportation that will become popular in the coming yeara as