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This 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
by rootusrootus 4y ago
This 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.