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9secondkox2 said:

bloggerblog said:

When you fire shipbuilders they'll look for shipbuilding jobs.

Except that’s supposedly not what’s happening here. Musk is saying Meta is poaching. Totally different ball game than an ex employee scoring s job with a competitor. 

Let’s at least try to be genuine about things. 

radarthekat said:

foregoneconclusion said:

radarthekat said: You might change your view of you watched some of Sandy Monroe’s vehicle tear form videos.  Tesla is leaps and bounds ahead in important engineering areas. 

Such as? You've apparently watched the videos but don't have a synopsis of their "leaps and bounds" advantage?

  

Battery and cabin temperature management.  The Octavalve designed to maintain temperatures for the battery packs and the passenger cabin is considered to be next level to anything else in the industry.  It's compact, integrates several heating and cooling systems and eliminates both weight and parts, obviating the need for several hoses in addition to pumps and other components.  Hoses are a failure point and every hose adds the weight of the fluid moving through it.

Front and rear castings.  Tesla has made great leaps in reducing parts and weight with its Giga castings.  The rear section of the Model Y, as one example, reduced 70 parts, all welded/bolted/glued together down to a single molded aluminum part, with mounting points molded in.  This translates to factory space and time savings and a much better fit for body panels and other components.  Other automakers are just now starting to order their own equipment so that they can follow in Tesla's footsteps in simplifying their designs and optimizing factory efficiency.  It'll take them years to get close.  

Battery management.  Tesla's battery management software is next to none, ensuring that batteries are both charged and utilized to optimize overall battery life by minimizing degradation.  This is accomplished  through battery conditioning (warming) early in each charge cycle and drawdown.  The octavalve mentioned above plays a significant role here.

Over-the-air updates.  It's recognized by every player in the industry that Tesla is far ahead in OTA software updates, often unlocking new capabilities (more power and longer range) through constant innovations in battery and motor management algorithms.  Tesla also uses software to control far more aspects of their vehicle's functions versus competitors, and this means that Tesla can enhance or correct functionality of everything from the way the windshield wipers function to seatbelt tension, emergency breaking, etc.  

There are additional aspects where Tesla clearly leads by a long way, such as its charging network hardware which is now being adopted by most, and soon all, other car makers.  The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers just announced that Tesla's NACS (North American Charging Standard) will be the official charging standard.  I could go on.  

twolf2919 said:

I think this is going to be one of those times when Apple should have either waited another year or two to release the AR glasses Tim originally dreamed of - or it should have started with less ambitious AR glasses in the first place - eg ones that let the iPhone do all the heavy lifting computationally.  The latter would have made it a lot easier to develop something people wouldn’t mind wearing in public.

gatorguy said: Without a shortish 2-hour life on a cord and battery for one. Designed to be used on the street/in public for another considering augmented reality, ie way-finding and shopping for example, as another. Without it designed like bulbous ski goggles for yet another. Priced well under $3K for one more.