Hot! Tesla Master Plan Pt.2 (The Next 10 Years)

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Tesla changes meaning of ‘Full Self-Driving’, gives up on promise of autonomy

Since 2016, Tesla has claimed that all its vehicles in production would be capable of achieving unsupervised self-driving capability.

CEO Elon Musk has claimed that it would happen by the end of every year since 2018.

Tesla has even sold a software package, known as “Full Self-Driving Capability” (FSD), for up to $15,000 to customers, promising that the advanced driver-assist system would become fully autonomous through over-the-air software updates.

Almost a decade later, the promise has yet to be fulfilled, and Tesla has already confirmed that all vehicles produced between 2016 and 2023 don’t have the proper hardware to deliver unsupervised self-driving as promised.

While there’s no doubt that Tesla has promised unsupervised self-driving capabilities to FSD buyers between 2016 and 2023, the automaker has since updated its language and now only sells “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” to customers:

 

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[martinbo]

1. Tesla's lost its USP - lots of car manufacturers now make well-resolved electric vehicles
2. China's electric cars are more affordable and nearly as good (I've spent some in various BYDs - phew, stiff competition)
3. Tesla's führer is unwittingly deterring the very buyers he and his company once appealed to (allied to the fact that he's an utter ballbag)

 

[klier]

They're testing the Cybercab in downtown Austin:

Tesla Cybercab Prototype Spotted Driving in Downtown Austin

 

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[Centurion]

^^
Never buy a product for what it "could" do in the future.

 

[Matski]

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Wait, so something Elon said turned out to bull****?

Remember when Musk said that a buying a Model III was a good deal because back in 2019 it had an NPV or $200,000, and would earn the owner $300,000 over the vehicle's life? In a sane world Tesla would get sued to **** over this, but of course they won't because the Tesla cult are Musk meat riders.

 

[Centurion]

In a sane world Tesla would get sued to **** over this, but of course they won't because the Tesla cult are Musk meat riders.

Correct. Some tesla fan boys own shares and hope that tesla and space x will merge.

 

[Matski]

Correct. Some tesla fan boys own shares and hope that tesla and space x will merge.

That in itself is fair enough, but the out right lies that go into the valuations of the two companies are, IMHO pretty much criminal - maybe a few years ago wait-and-see was sensible when it came to what Musk's companies were capable of, but at this point it's fairly clear that every venture is based on lies, and even the ones that make some sense are not as capable as market leaders or underperform, in some cases dramatically. I'm sure a lot of the people riding the share price chart don't care one way or the other, which again is fair - the value is in the perception, not the reality - but the people that think it is reality... man... just crazy.