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Calling Tesla a paradigm shift is laughable. It's an electric car company and they put a fancy touch screen HUD in the dashboard. Revolutionary!
by meddlepal 8y ago
Calling Tesla a paradigm shift is laughable. It's an electric car company and they put a fancy touch screen HUD in the dashboard. Revolutionary!
- leesec 8y agoYou underplaying the importance of Tesla is laughable. 5 years ago electric/autonomous cars-as-computers were not on the road map (or were an afterthought) for major OEM's, now you go to auto shows and every manufacturers is featuring an upcoming electric vehicle. It absolutely changed the industry.
- andromeduck 8y agoNissan, BMW and GM would like to have a word.
- Jasper_ 8y ago> 5 years ago electric/autonomous cars-as-computers were not on the road map (or were an afterthought) for major OEM's Five years ago was 2013. The Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt were first released in 2010. Tesla Autopilot was announced in 2014 (four years ago!), which used technology by MobilEye, which was already supplying BMW, GM and Volvo with the same technology. I don't know where this revisionist history comes from. Large automotive manufacturers did say that it would take time for the technology to mature, and it took roughly as long as what they said it would, around the same time Tesla launched theirs as well. If that's not a roadmap, I don't know what is.
- codeulike 8y agoYou need to look at how their battery packs work. An EV battery pack is not just a big battery, its a massive system all of its own, with monitoring, cooling, etc. Tesla's battery packs are way ahead of anyone else's, and also produced at a lower price per kwh.