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Tesla is not a tech company. Other auto manufacturers are not getting hammered this hard.
by gregjor 4y ago
Tesla is not a tech company. Other auto manufacturers are not getting hammered this hard.
- squidbeak 4y agoAny company with huge R&D in AI is a tech company. Tesla's also an auto company. It's possible to be both.
- Bubble_Pop_22 4y agoExxon is using AI to find potential new pockets of oil, is it a tech company too? What a load of bollocks, it's just the age old tale of a guy who believes his own BS enough to stream it into the world . When there are many of them eventually one will succeed in selling his unsubstantiated narrative. In a sense people are right when they say Tesla isn't a car company, it's a cult company. Cults are popping everywhere in the stock market and the so called business world. If it's indeed true that for every ant you see in the kitchen there are 100 that you don't see...well it's looking bad.
- 8note 4y agoI've considered trying to augment some geophysics analysis with AI, but is it actually useful? I think not - geophysicists are cheap for the amount of value finding a good deposit, and if you're going to find something new, it's likely to be outside the training set
- gregjor 4y agoNo. Plenty of companies have huge R&D in technology. Tesla is a car company because its revenue comes from selling cars, not AI. If Tesla had to survive selling AI or software it wouldn’t have lasted this long. Another valid view is that Tesla is a parasite on the public dole that also happens to make cars.
- opendomain 4y agoI thought teslas real revenue comes from carbon offsets? They do not make a profit from the actual cars
- pengaru 4y ago> I thought teslas real revenue comes from carbon offsets? They do not make a profit from the actual cars And what determines the volume of carbon offsets Tesla receives from the government? Number of EVs they sell perhaps?
- ushakov 4y agoTesla is a tech company that happens to make cars
- VGltZUNvbnN1 4y ago
- ham-sandwich 4y agoHow is that different from Ford or Hyundai? Cars are cutting edge technology
- gregjor 4y agoIt’s different because Musk says so.
- gregjor 4y agoMcDonalds is a real estate company that happens to sell burgers. You see how that trite equation works for every company? Tesla’s revenues come from car sales, not from licensing any amazing proprietary technology. Ford sells electric cars. Nissan has decent self-driving. Are they tech companies too?
- MrMan 4y agoI think the term tech company should basically not be used, except in very specific cases where a company develops the technical underpinnings of the rest of the economy like AI or chips or energy storage, avionics, etc.