Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory

Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by mrtksn on Thursday April 11, 2019 @11:26AM (#19635531)

Tesla also happens to have a fanbase who would defend them with passion, making claims and arguing for hours that you can indeed download car performance from the internet, that driving assist is an autonomous driving even though Tesla says that it isn't and you should always stay alert and if you get slammed into a wall(like that poor Apple engineer) you should have known better.

It's really not about tech but about the brand. Since Stave Job is no longer with us, Musk happens to own the tech visionary title.

It can be annoying but I'm glad that Tesla exists an it's brand is pushing the big players into electric cars.

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Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by leesec on Thursday April 11, 2019 @11:31AM (#19635585)

->making claims and arguing for hours that you can indeed download car performance from the internet,

I don't understand. People went to sleep, their car updated via internet, and they woke up with more performant cars. This really happened. Obviously the car didn't changed the hardware, it changed the software, and the car drove better.

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Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by torpfactory on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:15PM (#19637499)

Obviously you don't "upload performance" from the internet. But Tesla (and many other companies) often figure out how to squeeze more from existing hardware with tweaks to how the device operates. It's the same reason software patches can make a program or device feel faster. The device didn't get any faster, but the developers figured out how to do more with the same hardware.

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Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by mrtksn on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:00PM (#19638014)

Exactly.

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