I’m convinced that the reason Elon forced this announcement is because he thought it would lead to some huge infusion of value in the company’s stock price to offset some major news coming down the pipe shortly. Like a bad Q3 financials or the announcement that they will never make the Truck (either one). Or some big…

The most obvious answer - They have always said it will be used to make model 3/y. They will just scrap the Truck part of the line and use the space for the car that actually will sell. 

I kinda expected his cult to believe that. They believe anything he says. What gets me is how many of the tech media bought into it. The same media who know better than to believe anything he says. Heck many of them mention it somewhere in their robot article. Yet the lead, headline and conclusion all make it seem…

True. I cannot imagine all of those thick steel panels will do well in crash tests. 

This is so far beyond vaporware horseshit end of the spectrum it is laughable.

A Manual option.

The big island is also an incredible driving experience. Lots of amazing vistas and fun curves. I adored it.

Yup. That’s why I never took part in that aspect. Anything that needed crowdfunding to get made has the extremely high likelihood of never making enough sales to make it worth the gamble.

Nope. they launched as a Kickstarter equivalent. But later on, around Psychonauts 2 campaign if I remember right, they started to allow folks to earn dividends on sales:

To be clearer: This seems to have only been sent to the investment side of the backers - those who would get a small dividend from the sales. Normal backers (I am one of them) were not sent this and the latest update on fig is April 15th. My account is still active.

Ditto. I’m in the market for a new car and I am seriously considering a EV. But in no way am I getting a Tesla after all of the crap they have pulled over the years. 

TBH, I kinda expect driver monitoring (camera and sensors) to become the standard across all vehicles. This is something I imagine insurance companies would happily demand because it gives them the excuse to not pay out.

One guy was putting entire boxes of cards in his cart. Definitely not buying for personal use.

I am definitely not touching any Ebay or 3rd party sellers for graphics cards when the Crypto market bursts. I imagine a large number of them will repackage the used cypto cards as new and try to offload them.

Yup. Really the only way to stop them. Anyone buying cards in bulk is likely more than technologically savvy enough to break whatever protections (unless it is hardware limited).

Nah. I would never want a car company to be able to do that.  But I do think they should be able to reduce abused functions.  Like remove his access to FSD.  

Thanks! Ahh so sounds like they will be eventually moving in that direction.

I have to assume that his insurance company sees this and immediately drops him from their policy.

So either Tesla put out a product that marketed features/items it was not capable of providing (the roof installation for quoted costs). Knowing it was falsely advertising.

I mean Tesla was the first company ever to produce an electric car. There has never been an electric car before Telsa. Not even a car with a battery in it.  So of course nobody knew how paint would work when dealing with such a completely untested and brand new technology.