Having redundant sensors will insure autonomy will be just fine. An fyi, humans don’t have redundant sensors.

Except here is the thing, if the car remains unsold, car manufacturers pay the dealer money to hold the car on the lot. So in reality it should be accounted more similar to lease accounting where you only account for part of the revenue and get the other part when sale matures.

That is cool, but it lets them play a financial game to cover up their finances. Effectively, other makes are going around a loop hole in accounting.

But it is true.

Kosch, of course everyone spend on R&D. But Tesla again spends 5X more on R&D as percent of revenue compared to their competition. As they grow, their spending as % of revenue will decrease like all other automakers. COGS will also go down as % of revenue as well.

Based on? How about providing some numbers and sources?

Tesla is not calling deposits revenue. If they did they would have had FAR higher revenue. And in the breakdown of financing it is pretty clear they aren’t. So not sure why you are making a baseless accusation.

I am not Elon. Would be nice if I were a billionaire though. Are you volunteering to make me Elon?

Nope, they have plenty of money to last them till Model 3.

Tesla is investing in more than just factory, they are investing in stores, upgrades, equipment (for their original factory), superchargers and etc.

Since they finished their final design, they most likely began prototyping already. The gigafactory initially is starting out test production for maximizing efficiency and so far is ahead of schedule.

They are not risking anything with autopilot. You would have a hard time getting any serious money in such a lawsuit. Tesla has the upper-hand in any lawsuit due to access to data that they can use. Even in worst case, these things tend to end up either in a settlement or endless appeals.

Well that is not exactly true, you can have a public company that is not the goal of making money. a Class B corporation as an example. Though Tesla is not that, and they do plan on making money in the long run.

What do you mean no supply chain for the Model 3? They already have quite a few suppliers for the Model S and X which they will most liikely leverage for the Model 3. They also build plenty of things in-house which they are expanding on.

No, they are not revenue. Cash flow sure, revenue no.

A computer can most definitely kill you, and there are computers like super computers costing well over 70k.

Considering that Tesla so far is on track with their overall goals, and that gigafactory is ahead of schedule. It seems just fine. Wall street being wrong on estimates shows more of an issue with wall street’s ability to make guesses rather than anything underlying.

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The quote in question is pretty stupid in nature. Don’t like the direction your company goes in? Sell your stock, simple as that. It is not like he was forced into having it.

A pretty terrible scheme. When 1 company buys another company, the stock of the buying company goes down. So you would lose more money on the deal then you would make.