German automakers who once laughed off Elon Musk are now starting to worry

latimes.com

This is typical Europeans. I as a european hear this from my fellow countrymen all the time. Uneducated fat americans, no style, no quality, they know nothing, europe is 100times better.

Yet most of the major/minor innovations comes from the US these days, then it's Asian, Israel and the last is Europe.

You can counter argue that there's a big brain drain but whose fault it is ?

Europeans are just cocky too busy posturing.

I am European as well and also think innovation is not something happening a lot here (fragmented region, risk averse culture, many rules, many languages, focus on government grants as a solution for everything).

However, this article could be just as well be on traditional car makers anywhere else in the world ? Seems to me that Ford, Toyota, etc are in exactly the same spot as these German car makers ?

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