Sure, but the Tesla is also a real sports car that goes 0 - 60 in four seconds, and that's reflected in the tag. The vast majority of us don't need anything near that level of performance. Keep in mind the reason the tesla is a sports car is because it helps justify the high price. The tesla only has ~240hp which normally would not make for much of a sports car, however, they have contracted with lotus and the car is based on the lotus elise which is smaller than mazda miata and makes heavy use of aluminum and carbon fiber to keep the weight to less than 2000lbs. The elise which normally comes with a 190hp motor runs 0-60 of around 4.5 seconds or so. The point is the only reason the car is sporty at all is it's extreme light weight frame and small size, make the car something you would want to drive around on a daily basis and you lose the performance aspect.
They could have made an electric sedan (and in fact I believe it is in the works) but at $100,000 and only 240hp with a curb weight slightly higher than your average sedan doesn't make a very compelling buy does it?
There is a good Mark Twain quote: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
The "Cell" processors are more like secondary helper processors, the main CPU in the PS3 is indeed a PowerPC.
As for the 'Vector Units too brain dead for AI'?...
From my very limited knowledge of the Cell processor I can tell you it is not a general purpose CPU and therefore not very useful for doing things like AI, etc. It is good at crunching numbers in a very specific domain (such as matrix calculations).
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There is a good Mark Twain quote: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." The "Cell" processors are more like secondary helper processors, the main CPU in the PS3 is indeed a PowerPC. As for the 'Vector Units too brain dead for AI'?... From my very limited knowledge of the Cell processor I can tell you it is not a general purpose CPU and therefore not very useful for doing things like AI, etc. It is good at crunching numbers in a very specific domain (such as matrix calculations).
Lamborghini employees have families too...