Renault did this with Dacia. They have a Dahttps://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/026226/many-people-dont-actually-like-their-cars-infotainment-systems?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed&fbclid=IwAR0uYUGCT3W_R4zqmDuH6kSAiTcYdBJFhqfDkUevj0A3sdb2e__wvZhz6qc#cia app and communicates with the car via a special cable. Only their app can talk to the car and anything else you do what you want..

Wait, have you paid 3.27% of your income or 3.27% of your total net worth? Are you comparing income tax with something else? You know most of his net worth comes from stocks which are very volatile anyway, heâ(TM)s not sitting on billions in cash.

Ah yea, the old mantra bob lutz also keeps promoting:

Making EV's is easy, and once mainstream manufacturers with massive budgets, massive geniuses and massive ego's get in the game, Tesla's dead.

Seems to me like making EV's is not as easy as throwing money at it and hoping something sticks...

120 billions? :)) For a company with no profits, and with absolutely nothing proprietary that can't be replicated easily as long as you throw money at it to operate at a loss (like Uber does)?

Anybody that has a few hundred millions can come out with lower commissions, pump advertising like there's no tomorrow and people will jump immediately.

This is basically just people who lost a ton of money on Uber so far, and are now waiting to get out ASAP with other sucker's money. Hopefully at a profit, but if they can recoup anything they'll probably be very happy.

That show is sponsored exclusively by automotive OEM suppliers, and I am following their youtube channel since the beginning, they were anti-tesla since the beginning. I don't think Tesla is the second coming or other crap like that, but you gotta admit those guys may be very biased in their teardown. Also I didn't see a teardown on the same channel of other cars., but they go through the tesla with a steamroller, absolutely nothing is good enough.

Come on, if you can't afford an LCD touch screen with a stupid html css interface in 2017, just close down the business, it's enough. Why don't you use pen and paper while you're at it?

I saw what mcdonalds has around europe, and I can replicate that within one day with basic stupid html / css. It needs some kind of backend to display orders on another cheap dumb large TV monitor and you're all set. You don't event need advanced features. That's all.

You've basically explained 21st century from an economical point of view.

I remember when I was selling a European made security appliance that one of the sale points was that unlike Cisco, it doesn't have a backdoor. It wasn't a conspiracy either it was just something everybody knew. And this was way before the NSA revealings. Also, american security appliances are strictly forbidden in the central EU institutions, with no exceptions. Personally I think they are the clunkiest hardest to use appliances of all, you need 6 certifications just to install it.

Are you dumb in any other areas? This is strictly due to the fact that no sane government or multinational corporation would ever touch another american security appliance due to NSA having a backdoor on all of them. I don't like the guy either but let's keep it real

Just a random example, how much of the avengers 2 age of ultron was shot on US soil? I mean real shots, not green screen shots... Ironic.

There is a simple way to manage errors. Just issue an update correcting the error. That is one thing and it's perfectly normal. You get by error 1 million dollars to your account, the next second a correction is emitted and the transaction is reverted. As long as there is a history it's fine. But making a transaction disssapear as if it never existed that is a different story...

I agree with you, they should be short destination only. My big point was "existing" infrastructure. Building railroads is no easy task and without electrification, diesel pollution is going to be an issue again even though they are very efficient but you know...

You are so right, I think it doesn't even have to be electrified. With self driving tech soon emerging, probably it's a matter of time until lanes on the highway designated for self piloted cars will appear. There they can drive at higher speed and closer to the car in front, meaning higher capacity on the same highway. And you still have personal freedom, just get off the highway and go where you need to, when you need to.

The same with trucks. Designated lane for self driving trucks can be safer. Can you imagine a truck being able to go 16 hours straight, with the truck driving itself while the driver sleeps? Double road capacity right there with completely existing infrastructure and completely existing costs.

All this without having to build expensive new infrastructure for something that nobody really wants.

By the time self-driving tech becomes good enough, this project will be completely pointless and used for filming a Speed reboot.

Advertising is becoming more and more agressive, multiple banners, multiple videos, multiple cookies, multiple scripts, images, all tracking the activity continuously...

If you don't get it by now, it's probably too late anyway.