This is how I’ll answer next time Jehovah’s Witnesses knock on my door to ask “What do you think will happen in the future?”

Its nice as an idea, in reality by 2025 we will probably see 1,000 hp sedans from half a dozen manufacturers. They will all do 0-100 in 4 seconds and you won’t be able to put the pedal to the floor without instantly breaking the speed limit.  

Yep, $60,000 of pure profit. They have a 100% profit margin on each vehicle sold.

LOL What? You do know they have to pay workers? Pay suppliers?  Right?

I kinda wanna be that player with a terrible, overpaid contract that just screws the team for years. “Oh man. Shane’s contract? Terrible. Just turrible”

And if computer models are okay, did they even receive the updated models?

IIHS I could understand since they purchase the vehicles they choose to test, and with limited availability, maybe they just haven’t gotten theirs yet...

...the automaker accused the investigators of being “more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety.”

Tesla: “Autopilot is not a self-driving technology, it’s your fault if you die”

That’s the problem I have right now. It’s like every time someone starts to question their ability to actually mass produce a car at a “reasonable” price in volume they trot out some new R&D thing to try and distract.

I feel like the video footage is also doctored for contrast to make the pedestrian completely invisible. Look at the spot here and the line I made.

She appears “invisible” thanks to the video’s poor resolution. In real life, the safety operator would have been able to see her a couple of seconds sooner (if he had been watching).

How to improve Tesla build quality.

Two thoughts:

Anyone who believed that ride sharing is actually ride sharing and that it would solve the issues it claimed to be trying to solve is an idiot. They are taxi services with the pretense of “something different”.

In my not so humble opinion, car manufacturing is MUCH, MUCH harder than rocket science. Rockets are expected to fail. They are low production items with insanely fat, usually government guaranteed profit margins. Often cost plus contracts.

What the hell does landing a rocket have to do with mass producing cars? This is the go to any time, anyone criticizes the almighty Musk. No one actually told him it couldn’t be done that is a figment of the Musk fans imagination seeing as it was done over 20 years ago.

...at a loss on every vehicle rolling off the line.

The walk-around by one of the attendees showed that there are no air lines between the Prime-mover and the trailer just a couple of cables (to the battery pack in the trailer).

Yeah, it feels like, “Shit, we’re running out of money and goodwill. Uh, awesome thing up for pre-order, where deposits are more than thetotal sale price of that mass market car we hope you don’t ask any questions about?”