Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway

Re:Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Neth... by CTDOCodebases on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @01:02AM (#47057722)

Judging by the news isn’t the pivot to creating autonomous driving systems for other manufacturers cars?

If I’m understanding correctly the pivot is to sell just the autonomous driving systems. This way it can be trained on more data. It’s a hard sell to do this while competing against the car makers whose business they are trying to court.

Selling actual cars was like Uber when they started with a black car service. Get into the luxury market then leverage that so get into the mass market.

Perhaps this is why Elon has been so adamant about not using LiDAR

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Re:Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Neth... by amluto on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:24AM (#47059482)

What does any of this have to do with Optimus? Driving a car by sticking a humanoid robot in the driver seat would be amusing but is a terrible idea.

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Re:Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Neth... by CTDOCodebases on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:07PM (#47105926)

I got confused between Optimus and Dojo and assumed that Tesla had a seperate internal AI division called Optimus.

In light of this I think it makes sense though. Tesla lost the government subsidies so it can't compete. Possibly the only way it can would be to have an autonomous workforce then to leverage that into selling picks and shovels (Optimus humanoid robots) to other automotive manufacturers.

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