The week was a rollercoaster for the auto industry, with President Donald Trump hinting at potential tariffs on automobiles.

"Life is long, but we would love to partner with them," Dara Khosrowshahi said on Friday about Tesla's Cybercabs.

Tesla's Cybercab, or robotaxi, was announced last October and is due to hit the roads in Texas this June as part of a trial roll-out.

Uber Technologies CEO Dara Khosrowshahi expressed optimism for a possible partnership between the ride-hailing company and Tesla Inc where the latter would deploy its autonomous vehicles on Uber's platform.

They want to build it alone, so to some extent in Austin, [Uber] and Waymo will be competition with Tesla when they launch,” said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at the Miami FII