If I’m understanding correctly the pivot is to sell just the autonomous driving systems. This way it can be trained on more data. It’s a hard sell to do this while competing against the car makers whose business they are trying to court.
Selling actual cars was like Uber when they started with a black car service. Get into the luxury market then leverage that so get into the mass market.
Perhaps this is why Elon has been so adamant about not using LiDAR
In light of this I think it makes sense though. Tesla lost the government subsidies so it can't compete. Possibly the only way it can would be to have an autonomous workforce then to leverage that into selling picks and shovels (Optimus humanoid robots) to other automotive manufacturers.
I guess I'm just continuously baffled by the complete fuck-up that is/has-been Tesla motors.
These cars are very long in the tooth so I suspect that the Fremont line has been a shitshow the entire time.
Robots doing drunken panda moves FSD are insanely good using MacBook grade + and not even grass iPhone hardware
few other companies are doing large scale self driving large scale pilots
Cars are already heavily built using specialized robots today
Id say it’s equally stupid for any other car brand to invest money into something not autonomous or robotics.