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1 posted on 03/29/2018 7:07:08 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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“””The 38-year-old driver of the Tesla died at a nearby hospital shortly after the crash.

Late Tuesday, Tesla said in a blog post it does “not yet know what happened in the moments leading up to the crash.”””””

I know what happened. Somebody thought a computer could replace human eyes and brains and the car hit a wall.


2 posted on 03/29/2018 7:09:42 AM PDT by shelterguy (Bigdeal)
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I hope they never do a remake of Back to the Future using a Tesla


5 posted on 03/29/2018 7:20:42 AM PDT by butlerweave
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It’s probably related to TSLA’s bottomless pit of capital requirements. Musk was nuts not to raise a bunch of capital in the last month or so, when the stock was at record highs.


6 posted on 03/29/2018 7:24:34 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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History is full of brilliant engineers / visionaries that are horrible businessmen. Tucker ( why he never went with aluminum riveted chassis's / bodies when no one would sell him steel, I'll never know ) and Jim Bede and his famous or infamous BD-5 aircraft.

FWIW one of my gnomes notes he thinks Elon is the unofficial R & D wing of the major car manufacturers. Interesting theory. IMHO we are this close to the break-through batteries ( 1 billion in Venture Capital this past yr for all the players in this space, they get it, it is going to happen and they want a piece of it ) and a paradigm change in transportation drivetrains via a host of batteries ( the missing component ) that will take us 2X to 3X from here ( or greater ) in terms of range with electric cars, and yes the million dollar question is charge times which is being worked on.

Can Elon make it another 2 or 3 yrs and also adopt the next gen ( solid state is my guess ) battery, or.... does he sell it / joint venture with someone who can build his cars. For a the crap the big 3 gets about building cars bla bla bla, they can get-r-done, he didn't do it with his latest model, big, big screw up.

12 posted on 03/29/2018 7:37:28 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song of Angry Men!")
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My grandson said he wanted to work for Tesla after college. Told him the company might not even exist in 5 years.

We'll see.

13 posted on 03/29/2018 7:42:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Tesla's first victim...

Self driving vehicles... A twisted dream that only a moron who is too incompetent to drive would think of.

Elon's latest victim... Not present.


16 posted on 03/29/2018 8:18:09 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Here is an update on the story. Not good optics for Tesla if AP was enabled.

http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-died-in-tesla-crash-had-complained-about-auto-pilot/3275600/


20 posted on 03/29/2018 8:32:38 AM PDT by EVO X
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