Manufacturing self-driving taxis is one thing. Financing, parking, charging, cleaning and maintaining enough of them to blanket the country is another.

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Tesla is asking fleet buyers to purchase and run Cybercab robotaxis for profit, the same pitch that bankrupted MisterGreen. It does not add up.