Everyone holding shares has a pretty vested interest in believing the bullshit, because it impacts all of their bottom lines. The truth loses them money, so they’d much prefer a semi-plausible lie.
Ah yes the truth is known by the people who are entertained by full time doubting Elon and Tesla. Not the investors of a company that produces millions of EVs per anum.
“It seems the idea is that Tesla puts Cybercabs on the streets, and makes an app for booking rides using the software-controlled vehicles, and people can add their private Teslas to the available pool.”
This is now on the level of people harassing programmers with ideas like “it is like facebook but better”
I certainly love the idea of autonomous taxis, like, there is so much space wasted for parking… But I really don’t think that Tesla manages to deliver that in my livetime, lol
I own a Tesla and was offered 30 days of free full self driving. I refused to try it for a number of reasons.
The routing in the navigation system has numerous issues like thinking it can’t turn left at intersections where you actually can. It results in less than optimal routes, and there’s no way to report those sorts of issues.
FSD relies on the same camera system that Autopilot (traffic aware cruise control) uses. I’ve had Autopilot slam on the brakes for no obvious reason, swerve to avoid nothing, etc. If it has issues like that then chances are FSD will be just as bad.
The cameras are also used to control the automatic windshield wipers, and they can turn on without warning in bright sun, etc.
Same with the auto high beams, which are required by Autopilot & FSD. I refuse to use them because they can turn on & off a lot when there are cars approaching me.
I regularly get alerts that cameras are obscured by bright sun, low sun in the sky, etc.
In other words, the systems that FSD rely on are clearly still buggy. So I refuse to use FSD until it’s clearly demonstrated the bugs in those systems are fixed.
That’s the Musk manoeuvre. Promise very big, deliver a fraction.
The Vegas finger thing was also fun for that. We’re going to make tunnels and you get there with a big car sized elevator. Scratch that, regular old escalator. We’ll have high capacity speciale build buses. Scratch that, just a normal model X. But it will drive fully automated to the tunnels. Oh, no self driving, just human drivers. So it’ll be very futuristic. Oops, just use RGB lighting then.
And he’s not going to Mars for now. In NASA’s moon mission the spaceship is basically an orbital fuel truck.
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