Entretien avec Bloomberg

it's really taking the technology to the next level um people were able to guess of course that uh we're unveiling the dual motor Model S but um what what they'll learn uh tonight is just how much of improvement it is this whole tweet that you sent out less than what 10 days ago you sent this tweet out uh were you surprised by how the internet pretty much got it right with what you were going to unveil um you know I think the internet is very good at figuring out Secrets at this point so like there's no privacy anymore um but I think we were able to keep a few of the the the important details a little bit of a surprise yes uh and your stock went up Elon by something like8 n% just based on that tweet alone you earned about $3 billion in market cap on that

is that is that a surprise to you um yes I mean that that seems like an unlikely thing to happen just based on a tweet but um I I don't know maybe I I don't know yeah maybe it's surprising um I I don't really follow the stock that much I'm you know um because I think sometimes the stock moves for random reasons and um you know if that ends up being a mood barometer then it's you know it's not a happy life well because a few weeks ago you had said yourself look you thought the stock was a little bit high and it then fell about 10% after that so do you still think the stock is a little high well it depends on how people uh if somebody's a long-term holder of the stock I think uh there's a lot of appreciation uh that will occur in the long term um you know

in the short term it's difficult to predict these fluctuations um but it does seem as though you know for a company that had a few billion dollars in Revenue last year to have a 30 plus billion doll market cap is on the high side um and I think that's uh I think certainly lot lots of people on the internet who who say that and you know so you still feel that way then about your stock um no I mean I I just I feel like it's um it's it's it's always difficult to predict the short-term fluctuations um so if someone a long-term holder of the stock I I don't think they should sell the stock I think it will appreciate and ultimately be much higher than it is today um but in terms of short-term fluctuations uh it's that that's impossible to say now we'll go through

the features of uh of the model D essentially in a moment but I'm interested about the legal implications of having autopilot in the Model S's right um what happens Elon if the car does in fact crash who is going to be responsible when that car is on autopilot yeah so I think it's important for us to differentiate autonomous driving um versus autopilot autopilot is what they have an airplanes uh for example we we use the same term that they use in airplanes where there's still an expectation that there'll be a pilot so the so if if the the onus is on the pilot to make sure that the autopilot is doing the right thing um it's it's not we're not yet at the stage where uh you can go to sleep and wake up at your destination um uh if we would have called it

autonomous instead of autopilot if if that was the case right right um but what what we are doing is making it a lot uh easier and more comfortable to drive the car um and incorporating uh a lot of active safety features so the car will um stay in its Lane will automatically break will maintain a distance to other cars uh will uh avoid like Highway barriers and other obstacles um but that doesn't still address the question though Elon which is let's say it's on autopilot so it's not autonomous uh but if it's on a autopilot and a driver says hey you know this was supposed to change lanes for me and instead it hit this barrier I want you know I want Tesla to be responsible for this yeah um I think we're going to be quite clear with customers that the responsibility

remains with the driver okay um we're not asserting that the car is capable of driving um in the absence of driver oversight um that that will be the case in at some point in the future like maybe five or six years from now I think we'll be able to achieve true autonomous driving where you could literally get in the car go to sleep and wake up at your destination um but in order to do that you have to have fully redundant systems everything's got to be redundant so that any one system braking does not result in an accident um and you also have to prove that out over you know millions of miles of driving and then and then of course the then we have to prove that to The Regulators to convince them that it's safe and and so I think from the point of which

true autonomous uh driving is as possible which which I I now think is probably in the five or six year time frame um you said that before though five to six years yeah um if a couple years ago I thought it was more like 10 years but based on the rate of improvement uh that I'm seeing and the progress we're making I think we'll probably able to do it in five or six years um and then but but it's probably still going to take two or 3 years after that before The regul Regulators approve it because I want to make sure that it's truly um a lot safer than driving with a person this the standard for fully autonomous driving is going to be much greater than for a person right um cuz if it's just equivalent that wouldn't be enough there's no change at all in

the battery right there's no change at all in what you're doing with and how you're how you're okay but is there going to be a change at all in the driving range given some of these improvements yeah so uh the way we're doing dual motor uh it actually enables a range increase because we're able to balance the efficiency of the motors a lot more um so if you just have one motor it's always uh on on a particular power versus efficiency curve but if you got two Motors you can optimize between them um and actually have uh have the motors operate in their their more efficient regime more of the time and the net result is that we're able to get 10 miles more Highway range just just by going to dual motors whereas in every other all-wheel drive system uh you

you lose range this when you gain it