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Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Friday March 29, 2024 @07:53AM (#39862938)
Honda had this problem many years ago where the bodies just rusted out. They fixed this by changing their entire process to apply a coating everywhere. Lessons learned in the past ignored in the present.

Elon is probably only thinking about the use-case on Mars where a lack of atmospheric oxygen will mean corrosion isn't such a major factor.

Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by gagaJo on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:46AM (#39864711)
Charitable take on Elon’s powers of foresight. Not so sure he thinks much further out than tomorrow.
Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by throwaway11460 on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:45PM (#39866149)
If he can get so far while thinking only about tomorrow, he's the absolute genius. Can't even imagine what he could do if he thought a week in advance.
Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by Terr_ on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:35PM (#39866794)
Ah, but are we talking about how far in advance someone plans for their own benefit, or is it how far in advance they think of the needs of customers and stakeholders? Those two values are frequently different.

I think we're on something like year 7 of Musk promising perfect self-driving cars in one more year.

Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by throwaway11460 on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:48PM (#39866930)
We are also in year 9 of self-landing rocket boosters launching 100 times a year reused 10+ times, on the other hand.

Or that's the work of SpaceX team and not Musk? So when it fails it's Musk and Musk only, but when it succeeds it's not Musk at all?

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Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by throwaway11460 on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:20PM (#39867293)
Where's yours then?
Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by gagaJo on Friday March 29, 2024 @05:33PM (#39869254)
Ah yes, one primate demanding proof from another, projecting authority they don’t have in doing so

Mine is in my bank account; bought Apple @ $7-9/share, before Jobs returned, Dell at $4/share, etc, sold others on buying tickets to hype train the last 27-28 years

Give money to others and let them make you rich. It’s not hard. You take a naive group of youth and project authority at them about how the world works.

We did it with religion, university, nation state economics/currency propagation schemes, technology… circle of life Simba.

Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by throwaway11460 on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:01PM (#39870801)
I bought AMD for $3 and Nvidia for $90. I got lucky, you got lucky.

Building companies is much more work than a lucky trade or two.

Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by throwup238 on Friday March 29, 2024 @11:29AM (#39865268)
> Lessons learned in the past ignored in the present.

It's a lot easier to move fast and break things when you ignore that.

Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by greedo on Friday March 29, 2024 @11:36AM (#39865345)
I wonder if Elon's wonder cars will experience cold welding on Mars?
Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by dogma1138 on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:05PM (#39867768)
Not just Hondas but many other Japanese cars mid 2000’s to mid 2010’s Mazdas are notorious for having their underside rot out from rust.
Re:Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old As... by indolering on Sunday March 31, 2024 @01:40AM (#39881745)
Yeah, the stainless steel panels of the Cybertruck are not stainFREE. Adding a clear coat to the base model would prevent a lot of disappointment.