Tesla just laid out its transportation mission: World domination

Tesla CEO Elon Musk famously thinks bots volition run us around.

On Wednesday, he took that long-running imagination of autonomy a stage further. During the automaker's earnings call, Musk predicted that Tesla itself would dominate how passengers get about — so lengthy as pesky regulators don't get in the way.

"I think Tesla volition end up doing a bulk of all passenger miles on Earth in any nation anywhere it is allowed to run freely," he said. "And you can arrive rear and appearance at this prediction, but I awareness assured concerning this prediction."

He stated Tesla's biggest hurdle to earth domination is abroad governments blocking autonomous tech "to defend a family industry."

That is a bolder declaration than Musk's previous autonomy predictions.

During a January earnings call, he stated the "vast bulk of miles traveled" would eventually be autonomous and guessed that group would manually run small than 5% of miles. That prediction remaining another autonomous competitors — Waymo, Zoox, Ford, GM, Rivian, etc. — in the fray.

Vehicle autonomy is center to Tesla's evaluation story. The business says its forthcoming lineup volition contain lone one conveyance that drivers can run manually: the high-priced Roadster.

In September, the business started rolling out the steering-wheel-less Cybercab for ride-hailing in Texas.

That rollout has had its fits and starts. While Tesla says it's ramping manufacturing and preparing to initiate Cybercab rides in Florida, the NHTSA issued an audit inquiry hours following the car's community publish to investigation the automaker's self-certification.

Musk, who has described his predictions as his "best guesses," has missed multiple latest timelines for Tesla's autonomy rollout — including a prediction that unsupervised autonomy would ramp throughout the US in 2025.

Now, Tesla has a new mark date for the person initiate of its complete self-driving software. On Wednesday, Ashok Elluswamy, the company's VP of AI, stated unsupervised FSD is coming "somewhere about Q2 next year."

Tesla didn't immediately react to a petition for comment from Business Insider.