Featured Nice car: Lucid

Tesla can never be Level 4 because it lacks lidar and radar. There are Level 4 cars already (Waymo), even though they are restricted to lower speeds.

You are also forgetting that Nvidia (and Google in the case of Waymo) are far more skilled than Tesla in AI.

 

And you trust Tesla’s EPA fuel-efficiency numbers, which have been reported to be false all over the news by many news sources. LOL Their numbers wildly change with model year, too.

 

In the early days the early adopters were teaching the newbies. What happened to the brand enthusiasm?

First time I ever had a form of self driving (TSS 2.5) (my very first drive in the vehicle) I used it without a single lesson for hours on end. Just find a interstate and screw around until you understand how the controls really work. If you can't do that, maybe you shouldn't be using such things.

 

Who do you think Tesla poaches from

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You are drinking the Tesla Kool-Aid. There are a lot more and bigger players now. I hope you are not claiming that Tesla is belter in AI than Nvidia. Lidar 3D mapping combined with cameras work much better than cameras alone, which cannot see well in the dark, rain, etc.

BEV fuel economy depends on the speed. I can easily get over 200 mpge in my Gen 4 Prius Prime PHEV.

 

There is efficiency in an engineering sense. To be admired. But there is efficiency in the use of the purchasers investment in the car. My car cost half as much. Leaving me with half invested in a market that has yielded enough to buy the Lucid. OK, I have a 5 year old car with 43k miles on it but it has been maintained so I'll keep it for a few more years. Selling now it would have depreciated less than $10k. It meets my needs. Wants, no not so much. But I've been lucky enough to have owned 5 cars that met my wants. Don't need to do that again.