> Ford is a car company, while Tesla is a software company. How? Uber has passed as a software company by making its drivers pay for capital and depreciation.

> Ford is a car company, while Tesla is a software company. How? Uber has passed as a software company by making its drivers pay for capital and depreciation. Tesla currently sells physical cars to individual people. They may be aiming for "self-driving," but if they ever get there, there's still the question of who pays to build and maintain the cars. Compared to that, the value of the controlling software seems fairly small.