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Oh nothing. That's why every school kid across 192 countries has heard of them.

Autonomous driving, battery tech, charging connectors, OTA software updates for vehicles, "gigacasting" large vehicle components, wireless charging.




Autonomous driving is being implemented with LIDA in many cars, Musk’s cars can’t see through fog.

Battery tech is now old news - every car company is doing this and making huge leaps in battery tech. Charging connectors are a dime a dozen now - at least BYDs don’t have flaws like the Cyber Truck where the plug literally gets stuck in the Tesla and majes it immobile.

Most car manufacturers have OTA updates in various models of cars now.

Ever tried to repair a “gigacasted” car?

But you were talking about recent innovations, which haven’t been taken up by other car companies. Could you name some?

I can list the opposite of innovation in Tesla cars: unreliable cars, unsafe features throughout the cars, no LIDA sensors and only cameras, large numbers of fatalities involving self driving Teslas, problems with sticking brakes, poorly fitting trim, wheels falling off at speed, tow bars that literally snap off taking out the back of the car, suspension and drive axle failures… want me to go on?


You’ve decided what you want to think about the company’s innovations and future prospects, and you’ll adjust your perspective to match.

I have not- Musk isn’t my ideological enemy nor my ideological tribe member.

When his companies do useful things that nobody else can do I call that innovation and invest in it.

When they don’t, I don’t.


You are the one who wrote "Usually when a company has done that 3 or 4 times in recent years, it's a safe bet they'll do it again".

I then asked you for recent innovations.

You supplied none.

I did supply you with examples of the opposite of innovation.




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