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I don't really see how putting a bunch of Californian developers on the task to write software to solve a problem that $114/car (according to an estimate) alrea
by moogly 4y ago
I don't really see how putting a bunch of Californian developers on the task to write software to solve a problem that $114/car (according to an estimate) already solved could be considered cutting costs.
They've already spent 6 months on 1 out of 5 features they lost by getting rid of their sensors.
- rootusrootus 4y agoThis is the same company that continues to waste countless hours of development time trying to get a camera-based solution to an IR rain sensor that costs about 5 bucks. I think there is a strong ideological component, not just cost cutting.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThe biggest Wall Street "bull case" for Tesla these days is around the gross margin on their cars. Tesla has always been a little bit of an accounting project (around subsidies, etc.), and this sounds like the kind of thing that a company with a keen awareness of their stock price and a lot of comfort with accounting sleight-of-hand would do. The accountants capitalize a huge R&D loss, which fits with the company being "innovative," and in return the gross margin of the car is higher.
- tpmx 4y agoEspecially when the software-based solution very likely will fail in weather that is very unusual in California but relatively common elsewhere.