Re:Tesla Semi
by pdeuchler on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:10PM
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This dismissive attitude of a domain expert's opinion while taking Musk's/Tesla's word on revolutionary claims that they don't even have a working prototype of yet is a perfect example of why the court of public opinion is slowly starting to turn on Silicon Valley
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Re:Tesla Semi
by greglindahl on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:45PM
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The "domain expert" is doubting that Tesla consulted with any domain experts, after Tesla showed domain experts and waved at a bunch of launch customers sitting in the audience at the event. No one's looking insightful at the moment.
They do have a working prototype; it's in the video.
Also, your comment is ironically pretty dismissive.
As an expert, do you think that the sporadic time/money cost of changing a tire could offset a significant reduction in fuel cost or trip time? How expensive would a tire change have to be to outweigh, say, a (conservative) 30% reduction in fuel cost?