What, you're going to start cutting heads off because you're only making 100k and not 200k like in the dot com bubble? Revolutions don't happen because people can only afford three cars on the driveway.
If you don't cherry pick, and look at the market over years, Tesla is way behind the market. And that's despite being propped up by millennial retail investors and accounting fraud.
Of course you could prevent manual control: don't give it any manual controls. If the ship is controlled by a computer which only takes orders from a satellite over encrypted communications, how would any pirate take it over?
Pirates don't attack ships for the cargo, it's for the hostages. It's not like some guys in Somalia have any ways of offloading a container ship's worth of goods.
After Brexit, Britain will lose automatic freedom of movement with 26 countries. They'll have to apply for limited visas, at a cost, to get into countries they used to be able to just walk into. This seriously degrades the status of the British passport.
Their business success came by running huge losses, subsidising their services paid for by investors. How often can they repeat that trick before investors start asking where their money is?
But why do you think everyone should be turning their headlights on and off by hand?
Because people know when they need them to be on, and Tesla doesn't. They've removed manual controls and replaced them with 'AI' that doesn't work. Fun includes high beams turning off if it sees a road sign, and wipers automatically turning on when you open the door, flinging water into your car.
Another busywork example I don't get: having to "start" the car. If the car has already authenticated you, why make the driver go through an added step of pressing a button or whatnot?
Because you might not want to start the car. But I like the way Tesla fanboys/investors/pump and dumpers have to write essays defending the numerous design flaws in their toy.
One crash or near crash every 3,34 million miles with AP on / 1,92 million miles with AP off, vs. 1 crash on average per 492 thousand miles among the general public.
AP only works on highways, you're not comparing like for like. More dishonesty from the pumpers.
If there's more demand than Tesla to fill, why did they have huge parking lots full of cars that they invited anyone to come up and buy with no reservation?
There is no Tesla available for $35k, that's just another one of Musk's promises. The fact that this is repeated unquestioningly all over the Internet is proof that misinformation campaigns go both ways.
If that were true, it would be valued at about $5 billion. It doesn't matter how many cars they're selling if they're losing money selling them. Their margins aren't as good as they like everyone to think, their SG&A rises linearly with revenues, and they have ridiculous repair costs. Tesla books a $3k warranty cost for every car sold, for most cars it's about $300. That's going to chew into their margins when so many cars come in for repairs, whether it's frunks not opening, batteries dying, rear window defroster stripes peeling off, bumpers falling off in the rain, water getting inside the cars, window cracks etc. etc etc.
SR not being available yet
It's not available because they'll lose even more money selling that than they will the more expensive versions. Don't be surprised if the 35k car is quietly dropped, or only released in limited quantities.
no advertising budget,
Tesla spends about $500 per vehicle sold on advertising. That referral system doesn't pay for itself. Giving free roadsters to editors of Tesla-friendly news outlets doesn't pay for itself.
If Musk is a drain to the company, why did they give him such a lucrative ten year contract? They should have paid him to leave instead.
In the places that do have public transportation what parent wants their kid riding public transportation?
Parents who don't want to raise lazy, fat, spoilt kids?
People even in towns and cities live in cul-de sac communities specifically designed not to be driven through. Trying to get buses in there is a nightmare
That's why you put the bus stops on the main roads. It's not rocket science.
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What, you're going to start cutting heads off because you're only making 100k and not 200k like in the dot com bubble? Revolutions don't happen because people can only afford three cars on the driveway.
Software is a global industry. You can keep out foreign programmers, but you can't stop them programming, and their code is competing with yours.
There are plenty of places with a similar climate to San Francisco that aren't as popular. There are huge cultural and economic reasons to move there.
Why are you so eager to put other people out of work?
What's the point in making more tunnels if you slow them down by inefficient pod systems?
If you don't cherry pick, and look at the market over years, Tesla is way behind the market. And that's despite being propped up by millennial retail investors and accounting fraud.
Who else allows pre-orders of products which will never exist? I mean other than dodgy kickstarter projects.
Oh look it's Slashdot's resident Tesla pumper. Maybe you could sell us why Saint Elon is selling people a technology that doesn't exist.
You have a lot of faith in the technical abilities of a bunch of third worlders with guns.
Of course you could prevent manual control: don't give it any manual controls. If the ship is controlled by a computer which only takes orders from a satellite over encrypted communications, how would any pirate take it over?
Pirates don't attack ships for the cargo, it's for the hostages. It's not like some guys in Somalia have any ways of offloading a container ship's worth of goods.
And no hostages for them to ransom, therefore no incentive to board the ship in the first place. Good luck threatening a computer with a gun.
You overthrew their government and replaced it with a dictator. And shot down their civilian planes and gave the guy who did it a medal.
After Brexit, Britain will lose automatic freedom of movement with 26 countries. They'll have to apply for limited visas, at a cost, to get into countries they used to be able to just walk into. This seriously degrades the status of the British passport.
I thought the UK left the EU to take back control of their borders. That means visas.
Their business success came by running huge losses, subsidising their services paid for by investors. How often can they repeat that trick before investors start asking where their money is?
I disagree. False positives will lead to a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario for when people actually fall over.
UI designers have to keep redesigning the UI to justify their own existence, otherwise they're out of a job.
Because people know when they need them to be on, and Tesla doesn't. They've removed manual controls and replaced them with 'AI' that doesn't work. Fun includes high beams turning off if it sees a road sign, and wipers automatically turning on when you open the door, flinging water into your car.
Because you might not want to start the car. But I like the way Tesla fanboys/investors/pump and dumpers have to write essays defending the numerous design flaws in their toy.
AP only works on highways, you're not comparing like for like. More dishonesty from the pumpers.
If there's more demand than Tesla to fill, why did they have huge parking lots full of cars that they invited anyone to come up and buy with no reservation?
There is no Tesla available for $35k, that's just another one of Musk's promises. The fact that this is repeated unquestioningly all over the Internet is proof that misinformation campaigns go both ways.
If that were true, it would be valued at about $5 billion. It doesn't matter how many cars they're selling if they're losing money selling them. Their margins aren't as good as they like everyone to think, their SG&A rises linearly with revenues, and they have ridiculous repair costs. Tesla books a $3k warranty cost for every car sold, for most cars it's about $300. That's going to chew into their margins when so many cars come in for repairs, whether it's frunks not opening, batteries dying, rear window defroster stripes peeling off, bumpers falling off in the rain, water getting inside the cars, window cracks etc. etc etc.
It's not available because they'll lose even more money selling that than they will the more expensive versions. Don't be surprised if the 35k car is quietly dropped, or only released in limited quantities.
Tesla spends about $500 per vehicle sold on advertising. That referral system doesn't pay for itself. Giving free roadsters to editors of Tesla-friendly news outlets doesn't pay for itself.
If Musk is a drain to the company, why did they give him such a lucrative ten year contract? They should have paid him to leave instead.
It takes barely any more delta v to go to Mars than it does to go to Moon orbit.
Wait, five miles is supposed to be a long way? For a child presumably in peak physical condition?
That's not a problem of the system it's a problem of your lazy child.
Parents who don't want to raise lazy, fat, spoilt kids?
That's why you put the bus stops on the main roads. It's not rocket science.