Tesla is in the process of having their lunch eaten by Chinese companies. It won't be many more years before it happens in the rest of the world, too. Their philosophy of cost-reducing, feature removal, and inability to understand customer service is going to bite them, hard. People get pissed when they spend 70k on a vehicle and it's built poorly, and your only hope at customer service is through an app. You can only get by building econo-boxes for so long before you need to add features in that people are used to having, you know, big extras like grab handles. Tire munching acceleration only gets you so far. Their "exponential growth" isn't long for this world.
And FSD isn't as red hearing at all, it's what Musk is staking the company on, and why so many controls are getting removed, or making them annoying to access. He actually believes it is going to happen soon. It is not. A touch screen to shift gears? Ya, that should be fun for 3 point turns, or rocking out of a snow rut. Dumb.
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