primrosepath

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by primrosepath 9y ago
The auto companies everywhere except Tesla are so far behind. Lived in Detroit most of my life. When discussed, the big 3's problems get brushed away irrationally. But it's worse than the future catching up with the auto companies
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by primrosepath 11y ago
Even more scary for Detroit, once the American public figures out Tesla is actually more American made than the big 3 they will feel no guilt in buying Teslas instead. This is especially the case if we start losing a bunch of coastal areas
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by primrosepath 11y ago
> Right, but the USA bailout of the auto companies seems to have been a good bet. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were saved, and the companies bounced back and paid off their debts, and the USA was able to sell its stake in GM at a profit
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by primrosepath 11y ago
> The U.S. auto bailouts were undertaken in the middle of a deep recession, and are highly unlikely to be repeated. Except Chrysler was bailed out before and has now been merged/bought by a foreign auto company for the second time i
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by primrosepath 11y ago
> It took well over 20 years... In the 80's people were still designing cars on paper on top of desks the size of a kitchen table. Imagine pulling out an eraser or creating a fresh copy manually if your drawing was too messy. It was
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by primrosepath 11y ago
> Apple could, if they wanted, start from scratch and it will take 10 years absolute minimum > but building an automotive company takes decades > Tesla is a 13 year old company. Like you said, Apple has $200 billion. That can buy s
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by primrosepath 11y ago
Because the auto companies are far, far behind on software and, now in comparison to Tesla, hardware. I was told by a GM employee in their tech center in Warren, they have COBOL running in VMs on modern servers whose terminal screens get sc