---
title: "Elon Musk Says Your Tesla Will Earn You Money While You Sleep"
description: "## Good for Shareholders"
date: "2018-10-25"
modified: "2018-10-25"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/ride-hailing-tesla-elon-musk"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Health & Medicine"
  - "Sleep"
  - "Tesla"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "ride-hailing"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Elon Musk Says Your Tesla Will Earn You Money While You Sleep

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## Good for Shareholders

Tesla shareholders weren't the only ones seeing dollar signs on Wednesday.

Around 6:30 pm ET that evening, CEO Elon Musk jumped on a conference call to discuss Telsa's finances for the third quarter of 2018. For the [first time since 2016](<https://thehill.com/policy/technology/413039-tesla-logs-first-profitable-quarter-since-2016>), he had [positive financial news](<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/24/tesla-turns-profit-what-musk-calls-historic-quarter/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a1f987e1c7d6>) to share: The company made $312 million in profit, far more than many [experts had predicted](<https://electrek.co/2018/10/24/tesla-tsla-q3-2018-earnings-results-preview/>).

## Good for You

But during the call Musk also [shared his prediction](<https://electrek.co/2018/10/25/tesla-network-elon-musk-competing-uber-self-driving-cars/>) for the future of ride-hailing, and if his vision becomes reality, you won't need to own stock in Tesla to earn some greenbacks — you'll just need to own one of the company's green vehicles:

We absolutely see the future as kind of a shared electric autonomy, so that you’d be able to do ride-hailing or share the car anyway, you know, sort of a long-term model that’s probably some combination of like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb. There will be Tesla dedicated cars for ride-hailing and any customer will be able to share their car at will, just like you share your house on Airbnb.

So, it's a combination of those two models, I think is pretty obvious where things are headed long-term. The advantage that Tesla will have is that we’ll have millions of cars in the field with full autonomy capability, and no one else will have that. So I think that will end up putting us in the strongest competitive position long-term.

If Musk's right, your Tesla could one day earn money ferrying people across town while you sleep. Now if he could just program the vehicles to pick up breakfast on their way home.

**READ MORE:** [Tesla Network: Elon Musk Talks About Competing Against Uber and Lyft With ‘Millions of Self-Driving Cars’](<https://electrek.co/2018/10/25/tesla-network-elon-musk-competing-uber-self-driving-cars/>) \[*Electrek*\]

***More on Tesla: [7 Ways Tesla Is Changing Everything](<https://futurism.com/ready-for-edit-7-ways-tesla-is-changing-everything>)***

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)