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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

what does it matter if that ends up being the case with the transportation p2p networks too?

You are imagining one way for this to work and then claiming it wont make good business sense, when that is clearly not the only option.

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.

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.

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?

Related, but slightly off topic. Does anyone know any good books on persuasion and charm? Maybe something with some empirical verification.

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.

Interesting use of ergodic. What is ergodic literature?

On what basis do you make this claim? On google scholar I can find 100s of studies pointing to negative impacts which have biological basis. https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/review_article/pdf/131357/...