Quote from: Morris Minor on May 01, 2024, 02:07:12 PMGrand Highlander is good and I suppose has a bit more ground clearance for mounting the curb outside the daycare center but, in all other practical terms, is worse than a minivan. If you have little kids, row 2 & 3 seat pitch is the most important measure, closely followed by load height for getting strollers into the trunk well. Minivans win on these counts. Sliding doors are the cherry on the cake.

My brother's kids are like 4 and 6 at this point. Strollers are no longer a thing. But they're still both in car seats? Wtf.

FSD is for city dwellers and that's it.

It stands a better chance with regulators in the US than in the EU. The Europeans are regulating themselves out of existence.

Most people just chase the money. LOTS of money? sure, that too...

I think Musk realizes he cannot and will never be able to compete with Chinese EV auto manufacturers in China (which is the largest market in the world for EV) and elsewhere in the world the outlook for continued expansion of EV market share is not great. He has slashed pricing and profit per Tesla vehicle has significantly decreased but despite this, sales are decreasing.

So he has switched his focus to full self driving where Tesla has a significant lead over everyone else.  If his robotaxi comes to successful fruition it may be a brilliant move but I don't think it will, especially in a highly regulatory U.S. and Western Europe environment. It just takes one fatality or severe injury to shut the whole thing down.

At this point, GM or Ford should just buy Tesla's car division and Elon can focus on his FSD robotaxi bullshit because he clearly doesn't care about making physical cars anymore

The use of "giga" in front of everything Tesla just makes me think og family guy.

Quote from: CaminoRacer on April 30, 2024, 10:01:40 AMhttps://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team/

Just after laying off "more than 10%" of its global workforce, Tesla is laying off even more employees – including senior executives and long-time veterans of the company, most notably the entire Supercharging team and the executive responsible for negotiating NACS adoption across the industry.

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Great! Just as the industry starts to shift to NACS, Tesla might stop bothering to expand?

We really need the other networks to step up.

It keeps getting worse:
https://www.theonion.com/tesla-lays-off-entire-team-behind-brakes-1851449223

Grand Highlander is good and I suppose has a bit more ground clearance for mounting the curb outside the daycare center but, in all other practical terms, is worse than a minivan. If you have little kids, row 2 & 3 seat pitch is the most important measure, closely followed by load height for getting strollers into the trunk well. Minivans win on these counts. Sliding doors are the cherry on the cake.