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Re:If Tesla Is the Apple of Electric Vehicles, Volkswagen Be... by ketamine__ on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:32AM (#26490960)
Seats and wiring huh? Wouldn't a BMW with xDrive be better?
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Re:If Tesla Is the Apple of Electric Vehicles, Volkswagen Be... by jack_riminton on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:36AM (#26491008)
With respect to the previous poster those weren't the best examples

I'd chose battery tech, self-driving stack, operating system, design and manufacturing expertise i.e. full body vehicle stamping

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Re:If Tesla Is the Apple of Electric Vehicles, Volkswagen Be... by sremani on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:43AM (#26491112)
I know my examples are not shiny. I am not a Tesla fanboy, but I have watched Sandy Monroe interview Musk, and my examples show how deep and wide the innovation goes that seem trivial from outside.
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Re:If Tesla Is the Apple of Electric Vehicles, Volkswagen Be... by ketamine__ on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:44PM (#26494531)
Self-driving stack is crap compared to Waymo. No lidar. That's a dangerous piece of crap.
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Re:If Tesla Is the Apple of Electric Vehicles, Volkswagen Be... by jack_riminton on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:37PM (#26495875)
The evidence would suggest you don't need Lidar, one example is this video comparing them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sibfRCgMiFE&ab_channel=Whole...

Bearing in mind that the Tesla is a Beta too, I'd say its far from certain which stack is crap

But I'll happily review more evidence in a year or two :)

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