Tesla is not doing well as a car company. Tesla needs a good, low-cost car. Something that can compete with the BYD Seal, which reviews indicate is a good low-priced electric car. BYD is taking over the world of electric cars outside the US.[1] Only tariffs keep them from taking over the US market. They have many new models at good prices. BYD even has a pickup truck now.
Tesla also is not doing too well in batteries. Despite "Battery Day" and other hype, Tesla failed at making cells themselves.[2] They buy cells from Panasonic and CATL, mostly. Panasonic has some plants co-located with Tesla, but they're Panasonic technology.
Plus Tesla still has trouble with parts and service. The company is twenty years old now. They should have that figured out.
Tesla did fix its production volume problems. But "according to its own figures, the electric automaker produced 46,561 more vehicles than it delivered to customers during the first quarter of 2024. Where are all these cars going? Parking lots at its factories, malls and airports."[3]
Tesla launched the electric car industry. But they've blown their lead. This is what happens when the CEO's attention is elsewhere. Will someone please get Musk into drug rehab? He used to be good at this stuff.
[1] https://www.byd.com/us/news-list
[2] https://electrek.co/2024/07/17/elon-musk-might-give-up-tesla...
[3] https://jalopnik.com/tesla-is-running-out-of-room-to-store-u...
I think there's more nuance to this. It seems much more that, to Elon, every part sitting on a shelf for parts availability, repair and service is a part that's not on the production line going on a vehicle to increase the almighty quarterly numbers.
Tesla -could- solve this tomorrow, but the Boss Man doesn't care. He has your money, and he wants to sell you another one, not repair yours.
It's surprising that Waymo is doing OK in a service business. All those cars have to be stored, recharged, and cleaned. Somewhere there's probably someone that didn't come from Google in charge of that.
If you're on the fence, consider giving the other US/EU/Japanese automakers a couple years to catch up. They know the future is 100% EVs. They're steering enormous ships with large investments and many stakeholders.
The first time they showed Optimus, they literally had a human in the suit, so this is a huge step forward.
That said, a teleoperated humanoid body is an impressive tech feat by itself, seriously.
Hard disagree. The point of the event was to show off autonomous robots and this is pure deception.
> The first time they showed Optimus, they literally had a human in the suit, so this is a huge step forward.
That is quite the curve to grade on.
It's just a game of smoke and mirrors. There's a reason Tesla had the demo at a Hollywood movie studio.
You’d think a WFH bastion would be more open minded.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/1fy10k1/comment/...
AI is on the back burner and the investment/hiring has been mostly puff.
Imagine being able to control these things remotely and then walking a few of them into a bank to rob it. Then the robots attach the stolen money/goods to a drone which then flies off to another point to drop off the loot to its threat actors and masters who then get away.
I suppose the price points of them will need to come down drastically before this becomes commonplace and normal. Leaving $150k of burner robots behind to steal $50k doesn't seem that financially feasible.
We are gunna have a lot of new interesting laws in the pipeline.
Imagine having to solve a captcha to get into a building or buildings who have to install anti-robot traps and technology to prevent them from entering. We already have man traps, now we'll need robot traps.
"People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses"
I mean are we to believe that Tesla designed their robots to have a California dude accent, a Chicano accent, AND an Indian accent just for the hell of it?
I'd love to see footage of the backroom where they no doubt had a bunch of operators with Valve Indexes and VR headsets.
Why? Because most people do not have any other option. Play along in the hopes of some scrap.
This, LinkedIn posts, Leetcode, Slack conversations, are all this gigantic game of everybody knows is BS but still play along.
It has yet to be shown that these robots can do anything useful in any meaningful timeframe. We’re still well within the sphere of vapour ware that Musk has created for many years now. It would be naive not to ask questions at this point, or not to expect clear answers for that matter.
It was literally their "Autonomy Event". Right there in the title.
I dunno, if it's not actually an autonomous robot, I'd say it's more a non-demo of a fantasy product.
A big announcement of "a promise in the future"? Like hyperloop or "rockets flying from New York to Tokyo and to Mars in 2024"? Or the 2017 Roadster?