MKSGR:
Leawood911:

Elon has big plans for ownership. With self driving cars it will be easy to let the car keep working after you take it to work rather than pay for expensive parking. The owner get priority service and makes money owning the car. It’s a new world. 

But you don't have to build cars to realize this business model (if it would make sense). Tesla is building cars. Like many others.... No new business model...

I would argue that building a car that drives itself and can make its own payment for the owner is a pretty major change in business model. You just watched the car go from an expense to an asset. If you don’t think that changes the calculation on what car you buy think again. Will you buy a ‘dumb’ car that only costs you money or will you buy a worker car that pays for itself?  How many more buyers can you have if banks lend you money as if it’s an investment?  Even TESLA could underwrite the financing and default would be silly low compared to cars of today. I’ll stop there but you can hopefully see that nothing is the same.