Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
by beenBoutIT on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:30PM
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Tesla has maybe sold 200,000 cars world-wide over the course of 15 years, by its own estimate. GM sold close to 4 times that many vehicles in the US alone in Q2 of 2018.
Teslas are rare.
Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
by beat on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:34AM
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Tesla Model S outsells the BMWs, Mercedes, and Audis in its class. Those aren't considered rare and exotic.
Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
by Diederich on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:44AM
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300,000 as of February: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.
Current production rate is 107,000/year, more than 1% of GMs 10million/year.
However, your point stands: Teslas are, at this point, relatively rare.
First, Teslas aren't exactly rare. Upthread, someone said 200,000 have been sold (have not fact-checked, but it seems plausible). Second, autopilot related fatalities are covered breathlessly in the media, ignoring all of the other, far more common sources of fatalities, such as drunk driving. And finally, there is no media coverage of the number of accidents prevented by autopilot, which I suspect is pretty high.