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Buy hipster things, have hipster issues...
Alright folks, pack it up. The word "hipster" has officially lost every ounce of its original meaning.
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I think your last question would be answered in the affirmative if you are using a modern phone. They track everything already.
I can be willing to put up with it in my phone but not in my car. They're both qualitatively and quantitatively quite different.
Are you allowed to recognize revenue for features that are coming soon?
In my country it could be argued it's just a deposit and thus not taxable income.
Hopefully this isn't a paid extra feature like Mercedes locking the acceleration of the car and offering a subscription to unlock the full potential acceleration. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-su...
This truck is going to be a complete disaster in every conceivable way for Tesla. You've got a TAM on that thing of like.... maybe a few million people on earth? And even then, it's just going to be a silly short-lived fad for the ones who do. They more or less did the same idiotic thing as Ford with the Lighting. Tease a "$35k" starting MSRP for all the publicity, convince themselves they had a hit, and overcommit o…
Very bearish take. A complete ROI is like half a million sales, and they still have two million preorders.
I do not want my car reporting on me I do not need "over the air" updates Sell me the car. I will drive it away and make my own arrangements for maintenance. I want an asset, not a subscription Old man shouting at clouds?
Reasonable person reacting to insanity?
I believe there's a small but growing market for "dumb" tech. Unfortunately there aren't really many options for cars that I'm aware of. I suspect a quality-but-stupid display company is incubating somewhere, just waiting to nail manufacturing.
I'd venture to say that this locker function being delayed is a good thing. It'll force people to learn how to drive their truck off-road instead of hitting the Locker button, getting themselves stuck even worse, and then blaming Tesla. [HEAVILY edited for editorial clarity]
Every offroad comparison I've seen of the Cybertruck uses the same driver for all vehicles being tested. If a driver (even an inexperienced one) can make it up a small hill with a Subaru, but not a 4x4, locking diff, tri-motor, Cybertruck what does that say? You can't bolt on 4x4 engineering skills.
That being said, Subaru is renowned for being a highly capable off-roading car. Cybertruck is highly renowned for nothing so far :D
This truck is going to be a complete disaster in every conceivable way for Tesla. You've got a TAM on that thing of like.... maybe a few million people on earth? And even then, it's just going to be a silly short-lived fad for the ones who do. They more or less did the same idiotic thing as Ford with the Lighting. Tease a "$35k" starting MSRP for all the publicity, convince themselves they had a hit, and overcommit o…
This isn’t an answer or even a disagreement. But don’t they have the #1 best selling car in the world?
No.
Fifth in the US: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43553191/bestselling-cars...
And barely top ten globally: https://medium.com/@wiack/what-is-the-most-sold-car-in-the-w...
I do not want my car reporting on me I do not need "over the air" updates Sell me the car. I will drive it away and make my own arrangements for maintenance. I want an asset, not a subscription Old man shouting at clouds?
Tesla has done a fantastic job of updating the software, adding useful features. They still do (some basic) updates of the cars of 10 years ago. They managed to keep the UI fairly fast and responsive on old hardware, even as they have update the hardware for the console cpu etc many times. This is in contract to VW and many other legacy auto companies, that have struggled with software. I have worried about an upgrad…