Why does not preparing for EVs mean a company is hopeless and should be acquired?

Agreed on Maserati/FIAT/etc. In all fairness, Jeep is about to release the hounds with EVs. Here’s their plan from Motor Trend:

“This is a brand that needs combustion engines. It needs that raw emotion,” Gardner said.

If the Corvette can go mid-engined, then the Supra could ditch the I6, use the 3.5TT out of the LS500, and stay all Toyota.

Im saying I’m sorry you’re like this.

Alfa’s keys to “success”:

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems most if not all of the Giulia Quad’s issues seem to be rooted in software glitches, not component/manufacturing defects. “

well...I mean they replaced a differential...

And people wonder why Alfa reliability jokes are still funny.  They’ll stop being funny...when they stop being true.

I have been working with LIDAR generated pointclouds for 7 years now and I can tell you LIDAR has some fundamental problems that have always concerned me with driverless cars and robotic vision.

That’s surprising. I’ve logged about 5000 miles on autopilot, and have never seen anything like the car “completely missing a corner.” Autopilot has been significantly better than I would have guessed, even with lane markings missing, and over blind crests. (and it has gotten noticably better in the past few months -…

Then you haven’t watched the event at all. Every criticisms brought so far are dismissing everything brought up. Even the guy who commented about a bicycle on the back of the van, which has been covered already. 

I used to work on lidar mapping code in an autonomous robotics lab. It’s a dead end. It’s confused and degraded by sun, rain, fog, mirrors, glass you name it. Can’t see more than a few dozen yards in ideal conditions.

I have no idea if Musk is right or wrong about this. I don’t know enough of the science behind it.

You said it yourself in the article:

Im going to take the unpopular opinion.

Jason, this is very arm-chair quarter-backing on the requirements of self-driving.