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Well Musk has not a good track record with announcements like that. That said, not quite sure what else he could really do. Car production cycle are long and
by gutnor 11y ago
Well Musk has not a good track record with announcements like that.
That said, not quite sure what else he could really do. Car production cycle are long and capital heavy. The buying cost is also very large, so to maintain a media presence you can't really iterate every year like with other tech widgets.
Other manufacturers make prototypes between model refreshes and go to various car shows, so far Musk is able to that by just talking to the press. Good for him, saves Tesla a bunch of money until the competition in electric car market really picks up !
- vectorjohn 11y agoTesla doesn't make prototypes and go to car shows because they did away with the yearly update model. Instead they are constantly adding new features and improvements to the car instead of waiting for some big update. So you might get a car today that has something a car made yesterday doesn't have.
- flycaliguy 11y ago"Well Musk has not a good track record with announcements like that." Yup, very much like a politician. You get the sense that he is playing their game. They'll give him a hand but he has to speak their language. Promises made to the public are more like optimistic goals in which potential complications aren't accounted for and instead reserved as explanations for revised promises. I'm a Musk fan, don't get me wrong, but there is a level of dream fuelling manipulation behind his approach that feels political. That whole [i]warning the public about dangerous AI thing[/i] actually felt like a big political money push to me. Designed to overwork the imaginations of the public and get government more interested in throwing money at the tech.