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There's so much FUD it's hard to know where to start. You start with a rebuttal on "clearly falsified their technologies" and then transition to examples of how Tesla talked about products that people can't buy yet. Completely Apples and Oranges. Where's "The Machine" from HP? What happened to Seagate's IP-driven Key-Value Drive? Both really cool products they worked on but didn't manage to get out there as everyday products. Full-Self Driving is one example. Tesla is working on it, but they are also describing different levels of Autopilot to the media and you are just focusing on one. The products of Tesla people talk about are the ones that provide the vast majority of their revenue and profit. The ones they are currently driving and reviewing.

I didn't say Tesla could only fail due to politics. I said that's a sizable component of their early stage effort not crossing the finish line. You dismiss the many reports of very happy product owners, which doesn't fit the narrative you have developed. Apple was frequently described as a place that had employee abuse, particularly the way Jobs treated some of his engineers, but they made great products. A company could very well be poor in some aspects but can still do well.

And your Earth shattering news is my point. If the US did what Norway did, Tesla would be doing great and a number of our nascent electric car industries would definitely survive the early-stage. This also goes to political will on forcing more automated driving areas like what China is doing by building out.

Sure, there are plenty of other ways Tesla could crash and burn as a company, including being out-competed, but all of this is just side-stepping what was a completely ridiculous analogy between a fraudulent company that intentionally misrepresented their one main product, and a public company shipping product that is routinely reviewed and scrutinized. If you can't see this, you are so wrapped up in your narrative that you are blind.




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