Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by diegocg on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:52PM
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The problem with your comparison is that the company that is "the spacex of FSD" is Waymo. And even them can not get FSD right.
Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by ElFitz on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:09PM
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Who would be Boeing then?
Because almost no company has much more serious experience with self-driving cars, let alone FSD.
Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by dnautics on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:00PM
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Isn't comma.ai the SpaceX of fsd?
Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by magicalist on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:09PM
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> Isn't comma.ai the SpaceX of fsd?
Astra, maybe?
Difficult analogy because the barrier to entry's a lot lower for car mods vs orbital rocketry kits :)
Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by ctvo on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:24PM
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> Yet, SpaceX has developed three generations of rockets (Falcon 1, 9 and heavy), builds them, launches them, iterates on them, lands them, reuses them, and is now working on a fourth rocket (SuperHeavy).
What does SpaceX have to do with Tesla? They're owned by a billionaire with his attention split, but otherwise are structured differently, are in different industries, and most likely have different cultures.
The cult of worshipping a single person has got to stop.
Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by Infinitesimus on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:50PM
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The parent's point is less about Elon and more about the fact fact all the resources in the world means nothing if you do not have the right team, culture and incentives to pull it off.
> If Google can't do it with its massive resources
The companies behind the SLS had and have an enormous amount of resources. Yet, they have failed to even launch it.
Arianespace has a huge amount of resources and experience too. Yet, when asked, they said landing a rocket couldn’t be done. Then, back-pedalling, that it was pointless and would never make any economic sense.
Yet, SpaceX has developed three generations of rockets (Falcon 1, 9 and heavy), builds them, launches them, iterates on them, lands them, reuses them, and is now working on a fourth rocket (SuperHeavy).
They have also created 4 different rocket engines and are working on two others.
Honestly, where are Boeing and Arianespace?
Another example? Microsoft, their incredible wealth of resources and superior position falling flat on their face with smartphones.
Funnily enough, Google getting the greatest share of the global smartphone OS market, despite having had no real experience with operating systems, consumer hardware, or licensing operating systems before.
Kodak, which had some of the first patent on digital camera sensors, going pretty much extinct despite their massive resources and market position.
Xerox, failing to ever enter the personal computer market despite designing what everyone else would copy for the next 10 or 20 years.
Sure, the amounts of resources and experience seem to help, a lot, but it also certainly doesn’t seem to help reliably predict any outcome.