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← Previous segment →at allows you to use your private car as a sort of a self-driving Uber is the number one download on Apple. Now, I don't think there's any place that it's approved for that yet, but they must be really close. So the totally self-driving car is right around the corner. And it turns out that the Trump administration, in related news, is getting ready to ease a bunch of self-driving car rules. Boy, do we need that. Sean Duffy, transportation secretary. Now, is it my imagination or is Sean Duffy also the NASA guy now? Am I crazy? It's just funny how some of the Trump people have like more than one job. That's just showing off, isn't it? Like, oh, Biden needed a secretary of this and a secretary of that. Well, I'll just have one person do all three of those jobs. And somehow everything seems to be working out. So amazing.
Anyway, yeah, Sean Duffy says it's critical to keep us moving ahead. Well, absolutely. So I'm loving how pro-business the Trump administration is and how dedicated they are to getting rid of useless and bothersome impediments to business. They are really, well, the only thing I know for sure is that the publicity around it is really good. So it seems like almost every day you hear of somebody in the administration got rid of some regulation. So that's pretty good.
Well, speaking of Tesla, apparently this is wild. The Tesla board has proposed a new compensation package for Elon Musk. It's got some targets that they want to hit like a million robotaxis for commercial use, shipping out a million energy storage units, and producing and delivering 20 million vehicles over I don't know what perio
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d of time, and aim for a market cap for the company. So this would just be the value of Tesla. They want him to hit a market cap of 8.5 trillion. That'd be pretty good. And they want to commit to up to 10 years in the CEO role. I'm guessing he'd be okay with that. I don't know. And he gets 12% of the company stock. I guess somebody estimated that he could make a trillion dollars. A trillion dollar…
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