Weren't we supposed to have Tesla robotaxis making everyone $10k a year back in 2021? I will be shocked if there is an actual product that is actually usable within 6 month of August 8.
Never trust a charlatan.
Never trust a charlatan.
In May 2019, Kai-Fu Lee said, "If there are a million Tesla robo-taxis functioning on the road in 2020, I will eat them.": https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...
Experts at the time knew what Musk was saying was nonsense, so I think "charlatan" is exactly the right word here.
I believe that million-mile electric cars are quite possible, but 2021 Tesla's certainly weren't that.
And, barring a corporate reorg, it never will except by buying from Google, since Google is its corporate sibling, not parent.
That charlatan? If that's how you define charlatan, I wish we could all accomplish that much.
(what other accomplishments did I miss; tbh I don't even like electric cars from a practical or even environmental perspective, and yet even I can admit that what he did was simply incredible.)
The traditional car brands are losing money on EV's and/or can't scale the production up enough. BYD is probably the only other manufacturer that can compete with Tesla on scale and cost.