Relentless Power, you nailed it, dude.
He is the only one, whose outlook I would trust. But, sadly, he is probably wrapped, like a mummy, by non-disclosures.
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Apple Confirms 190 Layoffs From Self-Driving Car Project
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He is the only one, whose outlook I would trust. But, sadly, he is probably wrapped, like a mummy, by non-disclosures.
What are they doing with services? Which rattles out brain?
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Haha, You seem not really visionary. They whole industry will get transformed with autonomous, the whole society. Everything will be constantly moving!
Getting to the airport will be the least in this vision!
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They took him back to evaluate their effort, and killing it, if Tesla is far superior. Which they seem to be.
Cook should jump over his ego and take in one visionary (like me) who can establish the reality distortion field and push the boundaries. He might have tried anyways but failed, who knows.
Maybe he’s just an angry old man, abusing apple for his ego # most here agree that apple has deserved better!
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You are right.
German car will jump in 2022 until then they will still abuse IcE and market power. Tesla will have its 3 gigafactory up by then and an output of about 2 million cars a year.
And Tesla will have the most advanced autonomous driving, which means full self driving.
Apple will eventually have 5g and a foldable
We've been hearing each quarter how bad Tesla is doing, how much money they are burning, how they are in the red. But yet, they are making a profit these days. Quite how anyone thought you could go from building <1000 cars a year to 10,000 cars a week without spending huge amounts of money, I'll never know.
I bet if you asked GM or Ford to start from fresh and build 10,000 electric cars a week, their finance sheets would look a lot worse than Tesla's! You mention BMW being a stronger brand, they have been selling millions of cars for the last 70 years or something. If they weren't a strong brand, there would be questions asked. But even the might of BMW can't come up with a car that has the range and performance of a 7 year old Tesla Model S!
Whether you like Musk or not doesn't matter. Tesla have advanced electric cars more than all the big players have combined. They still give the best range and best performance. When the Roadster 2 comes out it will re-write the rule book on what we thought was possible with cars.
Titan got a small amount, haha ... it was way the biggest ever budget and they sank it!
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Why always mention the OLD factory ... they have brand new German technology in there, which they flew in with airplanes, are You doing this on purpose?
Awesome. One manager per 2.5 people who were doing the actual work. That's corporate BS at its best right there. No wonder this thing failed.
Was waiting for that comment. How do You want to ramp up something new if You only have workers and not a huge amount of people structuring, envision and coordinating the effort?
He probably has his own agenda badmouthing Tesla. The simple reality is that once you drove in a Tesla (preferably a model S) - and you don't even have to sit behind the steering wheel to make that experience - you don't want any other car anymore. If you can afford a Tesla, it's the only car worth buying -- yes, the Tesla experience is THAT good.
FYI to turn the X off you have to press vol up, then vol down, then hold the power button for a few seconds before you get the power off slider.
Also apparently it isn't actually called the power button any more, it's the "side button".
https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-xs/specs/
You would have thought that Apple would be moving them all over rather than laying them off.
Yes, I agree.
Though I suspect some skills and know how is quite specific to car manufacturing…
Anyway, I hope they get employed soon. I guess having Apple on the resume would help. Though they might be prevented from being employed in a similar industry (as sometimes get stipulated in contracts.)
As this winter is proving, self driving cars have a very long way to go to be a reliable year around technology. The car can't follow a road line if it's buried in snow, or know who is drifting into whose lane if the center lines aren't readily visible. And if you put out a self driving car that doesn't work for 2-5 months of the year you probably won't get a lot of takers.
The problems go a lot deeper. This is both an infrastructure problem, where road marking devices could be placed on roads so that being covered doesn't make the marker useless like painted lane lines are now, and privacy. No one wants to pay to do whatever technology needs to be added so that cars know where they are within a few inches on the road. And if the car knows where you are, and WHO you are, this means that someone can track where you go every time you drive. Someone may be a company, an individual, or a government. It probably will be a mixture of all of those.
The problems go a lot deeper. This is both an infrastructure problem, where road marking devices could be placed on roads so that being covered doesn't make the marker useless like painted lane lines are now, and privacy. No one wants to pay to do whatever technology needs to be added so that cars know where they are within a few inches on the road. And if the car knows where you are, and WHO you are, this means that someone can track where you go every time you drive. Someone may be a company, an individual, or a government. It probably will be a mixture of all of those.
They have to cover Timmy's inflated salary and bonuses some how and why not on the backs of their employees.
They lost $1B in 2018 and made half as much profit Q/Q. They are hardly "making profit these days."
I like Elon Musk, but his company is financially crap.
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Net, Tesla lost $1B in 2018. I'm not saying they are a dead company. I'm saying eventually they are going to have to get their costs under control and make real EPS. The road to do that is not easy and the stock is way ahead of reality.
All of those things have been out, in some cases for years. Heck, the very first iPhone in 2007 had adaptive auto-correct.
Mike
Sinclair C5? Great concept.... too low to the ground, difficult to see these on the road amongst its other flaws