Of course Ford would say that. There’s literally no other answer he can give to that question. This is neither unexpected nor interesting.

Yeah but they can change it remotely so who cares

Well you’ll be in plentiful company. People love to hate on Musk.

These are the same sort of people who are shorting TSLA. It’s incredibly satisfying to see them losing billions. Musk has already performed two miracles if you ask me. I wouldn’t be too quick to bet against a third.

This is idiotic on multiple levels. Anyone complaining about not getting information can simply ask for a refund. Anyone in the comments talking about anyone who put a deposit down to being idiotic is idiotic because the money is refundable and held in escrow. What the hell is anyone talking about???

Why not? The money is refundable and held in escrow.

Tesla revenue was $7B last year. The fact that they turned around and reinvested that in capex is just good business. So I would say Musk knows exactly how to earn a profit. The real question is can you do basic math?

Musk actually has reasonable answers for pretty much every point raised in this article, the quoted article, and other comments if anyone took the time to listen to his ideas. His solutions aren’t necessarily slam dunks, but they certainly aren’t insane. Just the idea that limiting a tunnel to electric cars means…

Have you driven a Tesla? Try it and then see if you want your loud engine back.

But he also said the semi would be based on the Model 3. Seems relevant...

Try PBS Space Time. It’s fantastic.

And for it to be at all practical there would have to be a computer somewhere factoring in race. No way someone risks that getting leaked.

Lol. Yeah, those rockets are pretty good. I mean, I totally thought of that already but they’re pretty good. God I hate people like you.

Or you can run a UWP app on Windows IoT core, which is gorgeous and has nifty animations. UWP apps running on a pi is one of the best kept secrets and it’s totally free including VS Community edition for development. Seriously, if you haven’t tried it you’re missing out. Getting something simple up and running is…

I agree. I already knew this and I’m not creative enough to come up with it myself.

Yes, how foolish of him. You can tell it’s not going to work because humans use lasers to see the road.

Actually you said the odds weren’t good and managed to get in a zinger about the virtually nonexistent government subsidies. It’s the usual doom and gloom drivel we get about a company which by any definition has done and continues to do remarkable things.

That’s crap. Tesla brings in massive amounts of money. They just turn around and spend it on new development as fast as they make it. Spending huge amounts of capital to expand into a growth market is hardly a sign of a dysfunctional company.

Come to think of it, why did we build the iPhone instead of just upgrading giant 80's mobile phones?