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I think Elon deserves some cynicism but it seems they really are designing this thing for cost and given the timeline and resources it is reasonably impressive

I think Elon deserves some cynicism but it seems they really are designing this thing for cost and given the timeline and resources it is reasonably impressive to be this far, and it really doesn't need to do too much to be useful. With aging demographics I think there is absolutely will be demand provided they can land in that pricing ballpark so I'm glad someone is working on it. I think year 2 or 3 will really tell us if this is real. With FSB they're in a tight spot, it can be pretty good is some scenarios but it's not clear it'll get to where it needs to be for L5 anytime soon. I think if they cut the price by maybe 1/3 to half and managed to smooth out the ride it'd be an excellent option for an already pretty good car and maybe in ten years we'd be closer to real car-without-steering-wheel FSD. But yeah it's hard to walk back all the hype on that.

NalNezumi 4y ago
I'm glad they're working on robotics but as someone that worked on a starup that set a price tag really early with mass production and RaaS (Robot as a Service concept), in mind, I'm really, really worried. Because the price tag we worked on was also around 20k$, and that price tag essentially killed the project from the design level. (durability and sensor quality / automation capacity tradeoff just was fiction) I hope Musk are more understanding when the engineers finally come and tell them those projections are over optimistic, and can bite the bitter pill, for the project. Ours wasn't, and the entire mechanical team quit, and so did the automation team.