Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by mschuster91 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:53PM (#35059474)

> Is Telsa much better for its reinventing the car from first-principles? Not really, it was for a bit, but the vertical integration has so far borne out fairly low quality cars relative to their price.

And yet, Tesla makes like 10x the profit of German car makers per vehicle sold [1].

The established car makers still, over a decade after the first Tesla rolled on the streets, haven't come close to realizing just how screwed they are... the biggest threat to Tesla isn't the established car makers, it's Chinese BYD.

Don't get me wrong: Musk is despicable as a person. But those working under him have truly created awesome things.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/elon-musks-guerilla-taktik...

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Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by danpalmer on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:21PM (#35060630)

Yeah you're right, I was simplifying a little. I think the main thing is that almost every "first-principles" company ends up hitting up against "I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that", and it's just down to naivety.

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Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by dzamo_norton on Saturday March 18, 2023 @05:16AM (#35207510)

Musk's ideas are both good and original. But the ones that are good are not original, and the ones that are original are not good.

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