Agree. Though if I were in the market I would still buy a Tesla. I really don’t care about bizarre behavior of Musk. The company is solid and the engineering is still top notch - manufacturing quality has improved dramatically. Musk is to busy too screw up Tesla ATM. By 2025, when I’m likely to be in the market for a new car, a wider choice of models and more mature designs from other automakers will change that calculus.technically tesla isnt looking at a deadend, it has some remaining advantages in manufacturing and profit margins. but so long as Elmo remains in charge and keeps OPUD and spewing the alt right tweets, tsla will have a much harder road ahead.
right now tsla is integrating newer manufacturing into their factories way faster than the ICE automakers. the gigapress is just vacuum injected casting, Yamaha was doing this 15 years ago with the primary chassis frame on their sportbikes. the 'giga' just means way larger part size. the primary advantages is the single part comes out dimensionally correct with no further modification by machine/man. current stamped parts done in multiple sections require tons of additional tweaking work to get a large frame section in tolerance. with no tweaks due to casting you can eliminate production steps/stations, the robots to pick and move the stamped parts, manhours; the cost,time, and factory floor area savings are hundreds of millions. the other makers are only starting to get into casting.
ford and gm in their transition to all/mostly BEV will need to build a factory line from scratch which the autoline guy says wont be ready until at least 2025.
so tsla has at least 2 years where they have cheaper costs and bigger margins.
but all that is irrelevant if elmo keeps 'sticking it to the dems' and thus antagonizing his primary customer demographic. ford is going to sell f-150 lightnings for probably 2 years before cybertruck comes out in volume. that is 2 years of ev truck buyers who will be locked in for ~5 years before they consider buying/replacing that truck, so that many customers tsla wont have.
i give props to the engineers at tsla and spacex doing real innovation, but it will be for naught if the idiot man child keeps 'free-speeching' those companies into questionable futures.
Agree. Though if I were in the market I would still buy a Tesla. I really don’t care about bizarre behavior of Musk. The company is solid and the engineering is still top notch - manufacturing quality has improved dramatically. Musk is to busy too screw up Tesla ATM. By 2025, when I’m likely to be in the market for a new car, a wider choice of models and more mature designs from other automakers will change that calculus.
Guarantee you musk really fucked up their FSD especially because he must have been the one insisting it could all be done with cameras and no sensors. Unfortunately the people buffering the company against his worst instincts failed to stop him thereI do love acceleration/G forces and FSD would sway me to get a 3 plaid. Though as of right now it looks like the competition is leaving Tesla's FSD in the dirt.
That's great. I'm happy for them. It still doesn't change the calculations. They're losing their grip on the market. And there's nothing on the horizon that indicates that will slow or stop. Quite the opposite actually. Thanks to Phony Stark's antics ...
It's funny that the cult of Tesla can't grasp what will happen to it as real car manufacturers turn their billions towards making EVs. We already see way better cars coming from almost every established company. Imagine what happens to little Tesla when the big 3 and the luxury brands are all churning out high quality EVs by the trainload.
Tesla has nothing compelling that keeps them relevant in the coming decade. They are going to be lost in a sea of innovation by companies that spend more on R&D than Tesla makes in a year. Don't think their stock price matters anymore. Unless the come up with flying cars, they are in the twilight of their existence.
I am glad that Tesla helped to create the market and Musk kept driving it along. They did their job and now will shuffle to the back of the pack as Benz, Audi, and BMW churn out luxury EVs and Ford and Chevy make it commonplace. Investors should seriously be thinking of what they do over the next few years. They won't be gobbled up by anyone, but they will continue to lose relevance.
I'd get a Bolt for half the price...
..it appears that at least someone at Twitter HQ was making sure the boss man would be happier, setting up the much-maligned “for you” feed (i.e. the Twitter algorithmic feed that Musk hated and told users to turn off before he bought the site — only to change so that you could no longer switch it off and were forced to open to it, even as the quality got worse) so that it’s basically now just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s personal tweets.
This seemed to turn Twitter into… all people complaining about how all they see are Elon tweets.
Oh thats why lol… for a second I was like “Am I on Elons page here”?Working for Musk is like working for Kim Jong-un, whatever "Dear Leader" wants he gets:
After firing the engineer that pointed out people were losing interest in the train wreck, was the reason for dropping engagement with his "Dear Leader" tweets, the remaining staff decided to just force feed everyone his tweets, so they can stroke his fragile ego, to keep their jobs.
Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone
Last week we highlighted an amazing story of how Elon apparently threw a tantrum at Twitter HQ because the amount of “engagement” on his tweets was declining. Also in that article were …www.techdirt.com
Free speech, Musk style.
Another very stable genius. Now I have John Lennon's "Crippled Inside" in my head again.How long until mandatory push notifications for every Elon tweet? Probably not long lol.
This sounds like the Streisand effect. The more he wants people to love him the more they will make fun of him.How long until mandatory push notifications for every Elon tweet? Probably not long lol.
Shit who knew his ego was more fragile than Trumps.How long until mandatory push notifications for every Elon tweet? Probably not long lol.
Getting more Trump like everyday.How long until mandatory push notifications for every Elon tweet? Probably not long lol.
Well, Elon has a point. Since human drivers do pretty well with just two cameras (eyes) - having many cameras + radar should produce superior imaging capabilities. LiDAR has the advantage of direct lighting and more precise distance measurements, IIRC. Personally, I favor LiDAR, but the real weakness of FSD is on the machine learning/inferencing side - current systems just don't match the capabilities of well-functioning human brains.Intermission!
So to recap, Elon opened his mouth and revealed to the public he is in fact not the genius we all thought he was. - He might actually be somewhat slow on some topics... and a prick to boot.
So. Speaking of FSD and in context of the intellectual void and vacuum Elon brings to the table I thought I would inject some actual smart into the thread and quote one of my favorite Science youtubers; Sabine Hossenfelder.
Sabine is a German theoretical physicist, she is brilliant and extremely funny. Here she is on new FSD developments and with a poke at Elon him self towards the end of the bit. Enjoy. (set to start 9:50)
(the extra white traffic light sure sounds intriguing)
Don't know about you, but I have him blocked.I rarely see any of Space Karen's tweets and even then it's only if it's an image or a quote tweet. Not sure what I did right but yay me!
Well, Elon has a point. Since human drivers do pretty well with just two cameras (eyes) - having many cameras + radar should produce superior imaging capabilities. LiDAR has the advantage of direct lighting and more precise distance measurements, IIRC. Personally, I favor LiDAR, but the real weakness of FSD is on the machine learning/inferencing side - current systems just don't match the capabilities of well-functioning human brains.
Human eyes are significantly better than any camera, especially in low light. I think the processing lag is also much slower, at least the part that figures out what is in the image.Well, Elon has a point. Since human drivers do pretty well with just two cameras (eyes) - having many cameras + radar should produce superior imaging capabilities. LiDAR has the advantage of direct lighting and more precise distance measurements, IIRC. Personally, I favor LiDAR, but the real weakness of FSD is on the machine learning/inferencing side - current systems just don't match the capabilities of well-functioning human brains.
PS I do like Dr. Hossenfelder's videos in general. Occasionally, her comments appear to wrong, but they are usually just incomplete given the self imposed time constraints. Turning to 30+min videos by subject matter specialists solves this problem.