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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:58AM (#16858316)
> When assessing Musk's success, note that Tesla has singlehandedly pushed the entire auto industry towards electric vehicles.

No, it hasn't. First, because the long-term arc was in that direction anyway, and second because the whole industry hasn't adopted that as the short-term arc.

Tesla has single-handedly raised the near-term prominence of battery-powered all-electric vehicles, sure.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by sabertoothed on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:13PM (#16860861)
No, it pretty much has. And this is independent of any long-term arc.

The main competitor German car manufacturers see (internally) is Tesla. This is what they fear right now.

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