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Re:Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from... by api on Sunday April 22, 2018 @12:04PM (#16896753)
The SV crowd picked up a lot of hubris from SpaceX, Uber / Lyft, AirBnB, and other efforts to disrupt moribund industries.

The key to success in those cases was that those industries were quite moribund. In the case of space it was nearly comatose.

Attempts to radically leapfrog and disrupt less stale industries are going to be quite a bit harder.

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Re:Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from... by neaden on Sunday April 22, 2018 @12:56PM (#16897050)
I mean, in the case of Uber, Lyft, and AirBnB a lot of their advantages came from breaking laws as well, something that can be tolerated a lot more in those industries.
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Re:Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from... by ptero on Sunday April 22, 2018 @01:02PM (#16897086)
It is still worthwhile to try though. Yes, many attempts fail, but they might still give some useful nuggets. And they are often cheap: a failure of established process may 10000 times more expensive than a disruption attempt (e.g. 1.5T F-35 vs 100M for cheaper drones).
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Re:Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from... by CaptainZapp on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:35AM (#16910654)
Where exactly is the lodging industry moribund?
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