You’re mostly right with your examples.
Difference being, those brands made BETTER versions of existing products, then setup sustainable production & parts supply and head-offices to service the new markets they are selling into. Then they innovate and compete on quality and performance.

The brashness of the Chinese copycats is amazing.

Why should we assume this? Everything about the concept is wildly dangerous.

It’s funny how Tesla is saying that all the info it collect is kept private but proved in a matter of hours that it’s not and that Tesla can use it at anytime, at will, in any way, shape or form they desire.

Is your gas station loyalty card also storing your phone calls and video recordings of you on Elons laptop computer?

OTOH anyone can track where you went by following the oil drip from the transfer case.

Thiel is an intelligent fascist, and he is doing what intelligent fascists do; use patsys as meatshields. Thiel isn’t mad at Musk doing this, he is happy that Musk is the one drawing all the media attention and public ire while he, Thiel, gets on with the background work of making the world a far worse and crueller…

Or it will clear 1 pothole, just to dive in head first to the second pot hole right in front of the first.

Come on, be honest. You aren’t only using it on “leg day”.

Im here for more incredibly expensive tech that is a 50/5o on taking out the owners please.

True. These “tests” seem hellbent on destroy the vehicles.

Most SV tech at this point is solving problems that aren’t problems.

I’m not trying to pick on you, but there is a certain irony in the fact that you are going to the gym but then won’t walk the 40 paces to your car in the parking lot when you are leaving.

If only both Musk and Thiel would fuck-off and get buried in their respective illegal mines in South Africa that they were both born out of. God damn, they are both LOTR goblins. 

They both broke, but the Ford was able to start and drive away faster than 5mph.

Regaining contact at with the ground a speed that might not match wheel speed, to say nothing of what subtle shifts in car heading and wheel orientation with respect to direction of travel occur in the air...

Every White House press conference should be clogged with questions about whether Musk’s latest tweet is government policy or not until Trump gets tired of sharing the spotlight.

Unfortunately, and surely a clear sign that we’ve gone full fascism, Trump will sic his DoJ on anyone and everyone who irks him. This approach with Musk would elicit claps, until it never stops and every Democratic-associated group is likewise implicated in bogus but expensive “sedition” or “terrorism” charges.

A lovers quarrel between President Musk and VP Trump?  Oh, how sad.  Maybe Third Lady Vance can get them to make up before the makeup artist leaves for the day.

VP Musk is less of a problem than Gay German Vampire, Potus Peter Thiel and we should all start acknowledging that. Hulk Hogan can’t sue all of us!