Tesla Throws Everything Behind Autopilot Bandwagon - Why Would You Buy Anything Else?

Because I would rather drive for myself.

GEtting a car that drives itself is like buying a bottle of Self Drinking Crown Royal. It may be safer but where's the thrill?

I like driving too, but where is the thrill in driving in traffic at 1-5 mph? Unfortunately that is the situation a lot of people face each day in congested cities.

Read the transcript from Elon's 2016 press conference saying exactly the same thing. Nothing has changed in the last 2.5 years and Teslas have had fatal accidents in self driving.
This us all a smoke screen as it was in 2016 to try to distract from disappointing results.
Same thing with announcement of the board shake-up on Goid Friday, a holiday.

Good Friday isn't a holiday for most companies.

Elon Musk, October 19 2016 - "Basic news is that all cars exiting the factory have hardware necessary for Level 5 Autonomy so that’s in terms of cameras, compute power, it’s in every car we make on the order 2,000 cars a week are shipping now with Level 5 literally meaning hardware capable of full self-driving for driver-less capability.”

Technically you can do Autopilot on the freeway and city driving with Hardware 2 from 2016, but there is zero redundancy. Hackers have been able to turn on the developer features in the Hardware 2 chip that let the car handle stop lights and stop signs.

Hardware 3 is 21x more powerful, fully redundant down to the power supply, and is actually 20% cheaper for Tesla. What you see in the investor demo videos is available is right now for Tesla employees in a beta program and hopefully will go live for everyone by the end of the year.

I prepaid for full self driving and can't wait to upgrade the chip and see the new updates. The old hardware is amazing on the freeway and pretty damn good on major city streets already with a lead car.

Lier lier cars on fire!

lier?

Musk said that Tesla's profitability is now entirely dependent on the 1 million car robo-taxi fleet which may happen by the end of 2020 (lol) or never. What could go wrong?

Can't wait to hear tomorrow's disastrous earnings call.

It could be a shitshow, hopefully not. The autonomy info was very interesting yesterday, but way too nerdy for most investors.

My guess is a $500 million loss for the Q :/

They also released some other news today, a Model S/X with a refreshed powertrain. Up to 370 miles of range and better performance with an AI-powered suspension.

Not sure I would be gung-ho to have just anyone driving my luxury car. Turo lets you rent your cars out to people. I would assume they vet them better than any ride sharing operation would. It still remains to be seen how the insurance industry will address Robo-cars driving autonomously.

I would rather use this vs. uber, but would not want to share my car either. There are so many Teslas in Silicon Valley that it should be pretty damn convenient to get an on-demand car. While stuck in traffic for an hour on the freeway, I counted Teslas on the road. Over 25 miles... 81 Model 3s, 51 Model S, 18 Model X. Basically two cars for every minute of traffic time.

Tesa: Autopilot and auto fires. No thanks!

Sure, drive a car powered by explosions instead that is far more likely to catch on fire in an accident...

...or otherwise (https://abcnews.go.com/US/bmw-recalls-million-vehicles-fire-risk/story?id=50922136)

This question is silly. Tesla's Autopilot is not fool proof and several people have been killed driving Teslas when Autopilot is on. Many people would choose to buy another vehicle because they do not trust Autopilot and don't want to take the risk of being the next fatality because the system messed up.

Several people is the key phrase, versus the insane number of people that die from car accidents each year (1.25 million or so). If you can reduce the probability of dying in car accident by 50%, why wouldn't you? Here is a difference scenario, if you could control elevators manually with a giant lever, but it would increase your chances of dying in an elevator by 200%, would you do it? Maybe for fun once and a while, but probably not.