Change to billionaire's PoV. You got a badrillion green self-esteem slips, more than you'll ever need or use, but you have based your life's effort on the acquisition of these dollareedoos. Do you want competency in the leadership of a country, or other?
Competence could be bad, politicians with competence recognize historical parallels with the gilded age. They might do something about it.
I suspect they'll take any distraction aside from competence. They are attempting to hold back the inevitable collapse to equilibrium (as all natural systems do so) of the class divide. So vote for the guy who will cause endless distractions allowing the billionaires to pillage further!
In the meantime, let's convince a guy who inherited 5 mil from his papa and makes $200k a year that he's on our team and "they" are coming after his American dream! (They aren't. This example person is poor compared to the actual offenders).
As a scholar who attended multiple minutes of a freshman physics course, I can confidently say the collapse is unavoidable.
I'd be fine if 'smart' devices actually worked. If a car like a Tesla actually could self-drive wherever you wanted safely and without using any fossil fuels, that would be great. But Tesla only does one of those things.
Imagine a car company selling the same model and style of car for over 10 years. That's almost every car in their line up except for the goofy rust box. There is no innovation in Tesla.
Remember when Tesla was an exciting and emergent name in energy and power systems? Tesla solar tiles made solar look incredible. What has Tesla done lately to drive down costs or increase value? Nothing. They recently came out with the 3rd iteration of their on-site battery and it is a lateral move from their earlier models. There is no long term growth or money put into research. There is no innovation at Tesla.
The original Beetle was a very cheap car being sold at a time when no one else was making such vehicles. Sales tanked once competition showed up. The problem is that Tesla is seeing competition now.
Also, Teslas aren't cheap. So the market for them is much smaller.
They made the Beetle from 1938 to 2003. Pretty sure other people were making similar vehicles during that time span. They only stopped making it because it could no longer meet environmental exhaust requirements in most countries (air cooled).
The beetle was made until 2003.
The new beetle, a different car, started production in 1997. It was manufactured side by side with the original beetle.
You seem genuinely upset that a stranger on the Internet has better things to do than argue with you. If you were genuinely curious, I'd send a few links your way, but you're just here to argue, so I won't.
I’m not here to argue anything boyo. I actually agree that Tesla has had good innovations in the battery space. I was a battery control systems engineer for a Formula E team ~5 years ago and I still keep up with the industry.
I never had anything to do with the Tesla topic though, I wasn’t the one who initially replied. How can no one see that? That’s not why I commented, I thought you were unnecessarily rude.
Can’t even play random comment police anymore without people getting their panties all bunched up.
There's innovation. He had his engineers remove the radar sensors which made the cars more accident prone when doing actions considered solved problems by other car manufacturers
Yeah, pretty much every complaint about the current state of Tesla’s FSD boils down to one acronym: “LiDAR”.
For the unaware, Elon has convinced himself that cars should be able to drive better than humans, while receiving less visual information via LiDAR. All of the early “wow factor” stuff from Tesla’s self-driving, (like the car automatically braking because it sensed an accident four cars ahead,) was due to radar. But Elon demanded that they get rid of the radar sensors, and move entirely to LiDAR. Because it has lasers.
But the problem with LiDAR is that it can’t see around obstacles. It works via light, just like our eyes, and that means it can’t detect anything beyond the car in front of it. With radar, it could see two or three cars ahead. It could see through/around them to detect obstacles, pedestrians, etc… But now it can’t do any of that, so they’re much more prone to accidents.
Because Ford is such an innovative company, right? Mustang, F-150, Explorer. If their other models disappeared, no one would notice.
I'm all for hating Musk, but the only difference Tesla and other companies is Tesla is younger. Hell, I was looking at buying an Ioniq 5. I went to the site, built one, and I get "There are zero vehicles nearby. Please look at similar vehicles near your location or contact your nearest dealer." Motherfucker I'm not paying $60k for "close enough to." Dealership shit needs to go. Put a price on the site and let me get what I order.
I can't speak for other countries, but here in Brazil we suddenly got a massive influx of Chinese electric car brands. The feeling I get is that I went to sleep in a country where you couldn't even find an electric charger and woke up in one where I could do a road trip with an electric car with zero issues.
Vehicles are extremely expensive here, but a Tesla would be out of this world expensive even if we just directly converted USD to BRL, which is not anywhere close to the actual final price. The Chinese cars are affordable by comparison, they do not lock you into weird proprietary non-standards, they have easy to purchase spare parts and do not require some weird dance to get a repair technician when you need one... I can say Tesla would have zero success here at this point. Completely different context, but I can see why they're no longer growing in the US given how there are other mature electric cars brands out there - missing the pretentious tech bro appeal, of course.
While the Herz fleet being sold is definitely impacting Tesla resale prices specifically, I think the larger impact is ICE vs EV resale in general. An ICE car from 5 years ago is not all that different than a new one today, mechanically speaking. 5 years in the EV world is a very long time. A new model will come with longer range and faster charging that was not feasible 5 years ago. So a brand that only sells EVs is going to suffer a bit more in studies like these.
Could she not have opened the door or rolled down the window? The article made sure we knew that she went to Harvard and described the event she was attending, but no mention of why she was unable to exit the vehicle. Did she not know how to swim? Was their some obstruction? Did something malfunction? Was she so used to having other people do things for her that it just never occurred to her to do anything for herself?
Wasn’t there controversy about the Tesla shutting down when submerged and how you couldn’t open the windows or unlock the doors because they hadn’t built in emergency safety releases? Or was that a different earlier model that has been fixed by now?
My Metalbird is developing a patina that looks a lot like rust. Apparently that's intentional and temporary but we'll see. I only paid $60 not $100,000 so I'm not as upset as I imagine these people are.
Irrelevant comment, but I wish that psychedelics were not classified by people as drugs. There is little in common in impact to your health and to your "high" between traditional drugs like cocaine and opioids and psychedelics.
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