Reasonable article, concise and clear, which is the trademark of good writing.
Unmentioned, which surely should be? GM hates Musk. Ford hates Musk. The UAW hates Musk.
Leftists hate Musk. The petroleum industry hates Musk. Putin hates Musk.
Between all the money and influence of the aforementioned entities (and many, many more), do you think some investigations are politically motivated? Honda just had a recall of 100,000 vehicles. Ford, Toyota, GM, and Honda cars were involved in the deaths of 10,000+ people last year. Where are the investigations?
Also, there is a difference between a minor software update to fix a problem that never put the driver at risk vs. a major software problem that does put a driver at risk. For anyone at the NHTSA or NTSB to not differentiate such things is ludicrous.
Lastly, Rosekind is a very liberal politician who's background is not in Automotive work and safety. He is a clinical psychologist who was a political appointee and was installed as head the NHTSA after doing fatigue research at NASA.
From his work there as well as his appointment to the board of the NTSB, Zoosk hired him because of his political connections, to help grease the skids for Zoosk as it navigated through the federal safety bureaucracy.
To use him as a source of criticism without giving his full background is misleading. His criticisms may be valid, but having a deep understanding of his conflicts of interest (Zoosk would likely be put out of business if FSD comes to fruition at TESLA) is important to any analysis.
Again, a well written article. Musk is usually late at delivering, often by many years, that much is well-known and documented. He also is capable of failure. No arguments there.
But betting against him over the long haul is has proved to be a dangerous bet, that too is beyond argument.
The fix is evolving from wrench to software update. Wow! We won't reach the age of the Jetson's before I die, but seeing it happen is truly fun. Who would have thunk it? :-) Good article. Appreciate the EV updates. A friend recently flew to Denver on business. When her taxi arrived at the airport, there was no driver inside! Some of this stuff is already here! Just incredible.
Reasonable article, concise and clear, which is the trademark of good writing.
Unmentioned, which surely should be? GM hates Musk. Ford hates Musk. The UAW hates Musk.
Leftists hate Musk. The petroleum industry hates Musk. Putin hates Musk.
Between all the money and influence of the aforementioned entities (and many, many more), do you think some investigations are politically motivated? Honda just had a recall of 100,000 vehicles. Ford, Toyota, GM, and Honda cars were involved in the deaths of 10,000+ people last year. Where are the investigations?
Also, there is a difference between a minor software update to fix a problem that never put the driver at risk vs. a major software problem that does put a driver at risk. For anyone at the NHTSA or NTSB to not differentiate such things is ludicrous.
Lastly, Rosekind is a very liberal politician who's background is not in Automotive work and safety. He is a clinical psychologist who was a political appointee and was installed as head the NHTSA after doing fatigue research at NASA.
From his work there as well as his appointment to the board of the NTSB, Zoosk hired him because of his political connections, to help grease the skids for Zoosk as it navigated through the federal safety bureaucracy.
To use him as a source of criticism without giving his full background is misleading. His criticisms may be valid, but having a deep understanding of his conflicts of interest (Zoosk would likely be put out of business if FSD comes to fruition at TESLA) is important to any analysis.
Again, a well written article. Musk is usually late at delivering, often by many years, that much is well-known and documented. He also is capable of failure. No arguments there.
But betting against him over the long haul is has proved to be a dangerous bet, that too is beyond argument.
The fix is evolving from wrench to software update. Wow! We won't reach the age of the Jetson's before I die, but seeing it happen is truly fun. Who would have thunk it? :-) Good article. Appreciate the EV updates. A friend recently flew to Denver on business. When her taxi arrived at the airport, there was no driver inside! Some of this stuff is already here! Just incredible.
"when will the CARE drive itself?"
Another good assessment. It will be most interesting to see how the big 3 adjust over the next 5 to 10. Looks like Ford is leading that adjustment.
CAR... fixed. Thanks.
I have written in the past about the coming wave and competition for Tesla. It appears Musk sees it too and is putting the pedal to the metal.