Our countries weren't conquered by foreign powers who set up occupation governments with blasphemy laws against the ruling classes. Please leave your German brainwashing on these topics at home.
People literally do this, it's called Airbnb. I don't understand, this is supposed to be a tech news site and you guys are acting like you haven't heard of any of these massively successful peer 2 peer companies.
It seems that you don't like Tesla for other reasons, so you're bringing up easily dismissed business challenges that have already been solved.
Last time I went to an Airbnb that was actually the home of someone else was in 2016 or so. I assume most Airbnbs are apartments made explicitly for using them as Airbnb rentals. Same logic applies to Robo taxis. This won't happen. The "private space" argument is quite strong imho.
Airbnb has long since turned into commercial renting. People short renting their actual home when they're not there is now a minimal part of their activity.
Airbnb isn't trying to revolutionize home ownership. They can have a successful business even if 99% of homeowners have no interest in renting out their place to strangers.
But when Musk talks about robotaxi, he doesn't describe it as a feature that some small percentage of Tesla owner will take advantage of and that Tesla will use to pull in some extra revenue. Instead, it's used as a justification to treat Tesla as a tech company rather than a car company, since robotaxi is going to completely change how society looks at transportation.
Even if Tesla successfully delivers robotaxi (a hard task in itself), there's no reason to assume it's going to cause the seismic shift that Musk seems to assume it will.
I feel stupid even responding to this. I'll take your comment on the assumption of good faith.
If the vehicles can generate revenue people will buy them looking to make money for themselves. Tesla makes money on the sale and the recurring ride hailing revenue. If 1% of consumer vehicles sold are autonomous robo-taxis that alone makes a significant bump in Tesla's bottom line.
Just did a quick search for ride sharing TAM ~100 billion. If Tesla can capture some of that at high margin (bc no driver). It's a lot of money.
1. Yes some cities allow self driving cars and others don't. It's widely believed that as the technology proves itself, the patchwork regulation will be replaced with a national regulation.
2.Not true in the U.S. No special registration needed to drive an Uber.
3.Obviously the owner like with existing ride sharing networks.
4.Yes, existing ride sharing networks handle this with surge pricing.
There aren't a lot of problems. Ride sharing exists and some of them even operate autonomously, all be it with extreme geo fencing.
The point is just because there are times of day where it's more difficult to hail a taxi, doesn't mean taxis are an unviable business practice. It's likely most of these p2p vehicles will be owned by people who use them exclusively for ride hailing.
Many people in the comments claiming to be liberals who wont buy from Tesla due to Elon. What exactly do you dislike about him, and why is punishing Elon by boycotting Tesla worth slowing the transition to sustainable transportation?
The only Western automaker that can produce electric cars without losing massive amounts of money. Only Western automaker that produces EVs at scale. By far the leader in terms of technology and efficiency in the industry. Best range/dollar vehicles you can buy in north America.
A couple Chinese automakers like BYD and Xpeng might survive the next couple years, they did it by relentlessly copying Tesla.
This is a major problem on the scale of carbon induced global warming, deforestation, and other types of environmental pollution? Isn't the solution, presumably some new type of tire, likely to be applicable to all vehicle types? gas electric or otherwise.
Specifically, he's a huge narcissist surrounding himself with yes men to stroke his ego. Not a good environment for push back (resulting in obvious failures like the Cybertruck, Twitter-to-X rebranding, 'FSD is ready!', The Boring Company, etc.)
> why is punishing Elon by boycotting Tesla worth slowing the transition to sustainable transportation?
Even if we take the Elon factor out of the equation and just decide not to buy a Tesla for any other reason, it isn't 'slowing the transition to sustainable transportation' because I can buy a (much of the time) cheaper, better build quality, modern electric car from Rivian, Hyundai, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, BYD, Volvo, Ford, Lucid, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Fiat, GMC, Honda, Jaguar, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Polestar, Porsche, Ram, etc.
Why does it matter? He's not particularly more narcissistic than any other CEO. Steve Jobs? I'm generally not concerned about the specific personality type of the CEO or any other employee at a company when I buy a product.
Tesla is clearly the industry leader in terms of volume, technology, and efficiency. The market wouldn't exist without them. Most of those companies your listing can't/don't produce in volume because they have massive negative margin and range/dollar is inferior to Tesla. Only a few companies are in a place where they can make money on selling electric vehicles such as BYD and they did it through relentlessly copying Tesla.
Influence Is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance. She's an award-winning Yale professor and the chapters are pleasant to read and insightful (and may be read fairly independently from one another.)
Literature that is not simply read from start to end in the normal way.
This is a but vague, so examples may help. Choose your own adventure series, House of Leaves, ELIZA, One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems.
If you want to stretch the idea, you could consider LLM output to be ergodic literature of the training data in that it cuts up the corpus and resynthesizes it.
Strange term, choose your own adventure is non-ergodic, there are many failure states you can land on. Meanwhile, most normal literature is already ergodic under the normal definition.
I looked up the definition, and I'm still a bit confused. I'm familiar with word in the context of traversing system states, specifically graph traversal.
The term "ergodic literature" doesn't seem to relate to the word in a math context which seems strange. Usually the same word used in different domains has analogous definitions.
