Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New...
by detaro on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:40PM
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woosh, as the kids say. Fairly sure parent is sarcastic.
Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New...
by methodical on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:42PM
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Yikes, yeah- on second thought it does seem sarcastic.
It's just so difficult to tell with Tesla because it certainly does have a certain portion of the population that would have posted the original comment entirely unironically.
Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New...
by tylersmith on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:48PM
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I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic.
A. "Plenty of other companies and CEOs can make as grandiose announcements"; see Apple's bi-annual events, among others
B. "Their future product pipeline is worth trillions"; Source? They have maybe 1.5 million preorders for the Cybertruck (which cost $100 to place, so probably a good amount will not follow through with purchase), which even at $90k per truck would be only $135b. While the Tesla Semi numbers are harder to estimate, I would say they're probably not nearly as large as the Cybertruck numbers and would be relatively negligible.
C. "... there's something else they will deliver very soon that will revolutionize the world. If you've read about it in a scifi book, Tesla will announce they are working on it first." What a load of horseshit. Tesla's main advancements have been almost solely within EV technology, and within a limited scope of EV technology (battery cells, etc.). To say that anything in a scifi book is being worked on by Tesla is a vast overexaggeration. The only other futuristic technology I can think of that Tesla has worked on is Robotics and Tesla's robot looks incredibly far behind other companies working on the space such as Boston Dynamics.