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You're wrong. The Tesla Roadster was a modified Lotus Elise with off the shelf components combined with an off the shelf electric engine and a container of com
by confluence 14y ago
You're wrong.
The Tesla Roadster was a modified Lotus Elise with off the shelf components combined with an off the shelf electric engine and a container of common laptop batteries all coordinated with on board software. They used this base to design the Model S. Giant leaps or explosive growth are only called as such by naive people who weren't watching the thing being painstakingly set up over many years. Everything is a slow burn - there are no explosions - only ignorance and inattention.
Furthermore the design occurred mostly in simulations in a gradual, agglomerative, iterative fashion just like most software. It's why they can bring out cars so quickly nowadays.
Your argument is the same as the creationists. Everything is iterative evolution. There are no leaps of faith, miracles or gods - just directed random evolution.
- fijal 14y ago"The Tesla Roadster was a modified Lotus Elise with off the shelf components combined with an off the shelf electric engine and a container of common laptop batteries all coordinated with on board software" You call it evolutionary I call it a leap, IMO it still took quite a bit of effort. The point is nothing in between was working good enough to show as the famous MVP. Giant leaps are also sometimes called by people who did the leap itself, even if it did not look a leap from the outside.