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Agreed. Not only did Tesla have a clear path, but they had a product that could sell at much higher margins, better quality control, not-so dubious legal ways of selling them, paid their employees decent wages (Uber... does not), and they won't have technology that can be copied and repeated by a second year student at uni.

Uber and Tesla are not anywhere close to directly comparable.

Additionally, Tesla is pushing hard on battery tech etc, ...

As far as I understand, Uber does some autonomous vehicles R&D, but the required tech advances will probably not be developed by them ?

I think very clearly, I’m not a Tesla fan but the solar roof and car are both unique and the core fan base is very strong.