So was Uber in the US a year or two ago; now Uber drivers hate Uber almost as much as taxi drivers and service quality has continually declined. I’d imagine it’ll be the same when Uber Kenya has to cut rates from its initial unsustainable rates.
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Many of the X’s issues can’t be fixed by a service tech visit, it needs to get to a service center.
No, very much the same thing seeing as how they’re all using MobileEye equipment.
Lane keeping, adaptive cruise control, auto parking are common features found on many luxury vehicles and even Honda Civics.
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No they don’t, their “healthy” gross profit is consumed by having to pay directly for sales and service centers. All their investments on R&D and growth comes completely from new equity.
30 minute charges at maximum allowed Supercharger power will only add ~60%.
It’s a complaint from an active Tesla Model S owner here:
The problem is that hitting the park button twice when you want to shift from drive is a pretty easy thing to do by accident, plus on the Model S, one way to extend the door handles from inside is to be parked and hit the park button again. So somebody in a rush could easily mix the two functions up.
The thing is the Model S never scored 5.4, NHTSA only goes up to 5 stars. They even state that here;
So I guess the Facebook guys will recommend spying on their customers to sell more advertising and the Uber guys will recommend spend, spend, spend to grow volume and force competitors into bankruptcy?
A lot of these predictions are done by people who see that because a car spends most of its time parked, that a self-driving car could replace the cars of 20 people and therefore cut costs by 20X.
They may be spending lots of money but many people still choose to live in the suburbs. While the Great Recession did cause urban core growth, that trend appears to be reversing with more recent data:
They’re moving to metro areas of spread-out warm weather cities. The fastest cities growing cities are Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Phoenix, cities noted for car transportation.
But Uber (and Lyft) have cut rates so low that the Uber drivers can’t maintain their nicer rides so their fleets have been steadily declining in quality. Give it another year at current rates and the Uber fleets will be nothing but 15 year Priuses driven by the most desperate drivers.
The broken AAA products that can’t leave the dealership after launch describes the Model X launch almost perfectly.
Yes the vehicles are profitable, it’s just that all those profits are eaten up to to pay for their retail and service operations. They finance their R&D and capital expenditures with new stock issues and loans. Capital expenditures don’t count in earnings anyways (other than modest amounts of increased…
The radically new thing for the 3 is to be able to efficiently produce high numbers of cars with high quality and long-term reliability at an extremely reduced cost budget.
That seems doubtful to me, when Model X production quality and quantity is still below expectation and when Tesla now thinks it can reach 500K unit production in 2018.