Now, please be precise with wording. 2019 hasn't ended, and the 10000 figure was given with the second gigafactory in mind.(which will start production in this year, actually)
The reason why I don't believe they need a 70 billion dollar deal, is that Elon doesn't plan on buying himself out! And if they take the same structure as SpaceX, I would expect at least half of current shareholders to stay in the company, as well as most employees. That would then require 20-30 billion, on the high end. Far more feasible and a great strategy, really. Everyone's that's long stays, everyone that's medium to short term gets a nice bonus with the 420 payday, Every short dies, if everything goes as planned.
One thing I don't see people mentioning too much, but tesla numbers are great for electric cars, but they're tiny, tiny compared to something like ford. I don't get why people assume tesla can negotiate similar prices for these things as other manufacturers can. I don't think they can. Who says it's cheaper for tesla to order like the big manufacturers do?
I would like to point out that you go to any article written about tesla from "the industry" viewpoint from at least 2008 to 2010. It's actually quite vitriolitic, actually.
I would much rather drop something i had no interest in and pick up other interests and maybe later pick it up when interest flows there again, than be forced to wade trhough the hopelessness that is to sit a good portion of your day, learning something you hate. Schooling HAS wasted a lot of my lifetime, on things I HATED. Years on, I still resent this. I also dropped out of guitar after 1 week when I was young, but now, having rediscovered it in university, I do it with a renewed appreciation and vigour.I want it now. Now, not then. And that's just fine.
In April 2017 elon was planning to have 20 or 10k of model 3's per week by now. That was not the case as we all know. Maybe we should be receptive to the change of priorities that occur when a massive problem such as that one happen. The fate of Tesla as a company is very much ingrained on model 3 production, and just saying that this demonstration has had a massive delay in a vacuum, without the context of the situation is disingenuous. Also I would like to just put forth the question of who here drives everyday. The human body does not, as far as i'm aware, have a volumetric sensor such as lidar. I'm not saying that the use or not of the information isn't important, but we certainly can do it just fine. It's shortsighted that we're dictating the tools we should use to solve a problem before the fact. I shudder to think of the day where I reject an implementation of a system based on the tools used, and not actual performance. To say an approach is wrong because it doesn't use geometric analysis is short sighted, that Classifiers aren't that good is shortsighted.
I must say the bloomberg tracker can be highly inaccurate and vary its values depending on your location. Likely not the best place to judge current tesla production capabilities.
Consider the quality of life that would be gained by having the same energy all these "gamer" nerds use, with their consoles and graphics power on these useless. silly games. Or consuming netflix. Or watching movies. Or doing anything that is not directly used on the survival of the human race. This is a pedantic argument.
And yet, I don't recall ever in any documentary or so, having seen the pilots get up and leave once the autopilot is on? They have humongous checklists to parse, do they not?
I want you to go on wikipedia(is that not mainstream enough) and search for the term Autopilot. Reads its ACTUAL definition and come back.please.
I would really prefer not being called a fanatic just because i believe that the term "autopilot" isn't a proxy for "autonomous". I've always seen that autonomous is a goal of tesla but they have always said their system is limited, and that it requires vigilance.
Forgive me but I've never seen any plane where, once in autopilot, the pilot/s are not checking and observing the conditions of the plane and making sure everything is alright.
I find this argument so often. Autopilot has never been a term for autonomous, just as its used in aviation. Just because people don't know the proper term or have an erroneous idea of the term, doesn't mean tesla has to have the burden of people misinterpreting what it says.
They have planned this for years. The "new roadster" and even plaid has been announced for years. More than that, Production starts 3 YEARS from now. If they still have model 3 problems by then, I'll be surprised.
You know , you're right! I had my timelines mixed. I do still think that elon musk's companies get singled out quite strongly when they take advantage of the subsidies that a lot of these companies take part in, to much higher degree. I guess his companies bear so much vitriolitic commentary, it's hard to distinguish actual valid criticism from the other things.
Let me just state that Elon musk has , in fact mentioned going zero on subsidies before the 200k , namely, qhen bob lutz was critizizing the subsidies and loans tesla got, he offered a competition where everybod would go to zero subsidies.
I'm still just a student, but I keep finding myself humbled and amazed at how much deeper any field I come across truly is... Even though most of this goes over my head for now, I'm sure, with more practice and study, I'll come to a greater understanding of it.