Typical Tesla

Today Tesla announced a supposed future upgrade/enabling of its "self driving" feature, which doesn't exist even though many paid a huge premium for it.

Financial Times: Tesla's full self driving: compare and contrast

"Did everyone who paid $3k for the Full Self Driving package (on top of Enhanced Autopilot, at $5k) back in 2016 expect they'd have to drop the car off at the shop for an upgrade? Some might also wonder what the cost of the swap does to the gross margin on those original sales."

Alternate headline: "Customers Who Were Told They Already Had A Product Will Someday Have To Take A Day Off Work To Get The Product Installed.... If They're Lucky"

On Tesla website today:

Yet also today CEO Musk says the chips necessary for it to supposedly work haven't even been built yet.

In fact Musk had promised that by now Telsa cars could operate autonomously at night, fully self-driving as taxis to earn money for owners while they sleep.

Yes, really.  And once you've stopped laughing please ask yourself ...

Isn't that fraud?

How is this any different than the Theranos machines that didn't work as claimed when sold?

CBS News: The Theranos Deception


Will Tesla even exist in six months?  

It's a very reasonable question.

The executive exodus continues, most recently with the Senior Manager of Manufacturing, the Vehicle Engineering Manager, and the Vice President of Manufacturing, among many others.

This pic of a typical Tesla executive surveying the company bears reposting:

We are short Tesla.



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