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it's probably unenforceable if one person is using their autonomous car for ridesharing, but i doubt that's what tesla cares about. If Uber decided to buy a fleet of autonomous Teslas and use them to operate an autonomous taxi service, instead of building their own autonomous car, Tesla could get that shut down pretty easily with these terms. And i'm guessing that's what they're targeting.

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Why? If Uber buys a car, why should the manufacturer get to dictate what they do with it? I don't see how it's any different than the consumer use case.

The manufacturer provides a guarantee. That guarantee is based on expected uses. If the buyer uses the product well outside the expected use should they be covered by the same guarantee?

You can't disclaim warranties for no reason, or for normal use.

Unless they show that Uber is routing the cars over speedbumps at high speed or something, there's no reason to think that there'll be excessive wear beyond the simple distance covered.

They can walk-back their unlimited mileage warranty, if they want. But not selectively for arbitrary usages.

So do you really suggest that tesla's going to refuse an order of 100000 cars by Uber?

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