No, he can't track you but yes, he can track his devices.

If you install corporate teams on your personal device, you are part of the problem.

You must request a device for that and never mix personal and professional stuff.

Outside of the personal opinions of Musk, what is the most annoying for me is the constant false promises.

They sell cars based on promises that a missing function will work in a few months/years and that your car will be compatible.

With the years of feedback we have now, we know that those were not promises but lies.

Other brands sell as-is cars, without empty promises. (outside the stupid "perfect outback trip" in every SUV/pickup ad)

I now see Musk as a con man, a very smart con man with a lot of money, not a visionary.

Yes there is dieselgate and yes, every car manufacturer tries to circumvent the system to improve profit. (Every includes also Tesla)

Thanks for the thoughtful response. You know what, I do feel a bit conned by this vision only implementation. It wasn't obvious when we test drove it, and they didn't mention it. When we picked the car up, on the shop floor, before it had even moved we saw the "Park Assist Degraded" warning and questioned it. They assured us it just needed time to calibrate. It has never gone away. It will never go away.

As a consumer, I'm pissed off. I do feel conned.

But I'm fine explaining Musk's promises away as hubris. He made promises he should not have, and couldn't keep. He shouldn't have done it, but I do think he believed it. I don't think it was an intent to mislead. Incompetence before malice and so on.

He deserves credit where credit is due. He did push us into the EV era.

> He deserves credit where credit is due. He did push us into the EV era.

Nissan should get some credit, too. Tesla started production on the Roadster in 2008, which beat Nissan's Leaf which started in 2010, but the Leaf sold much better.

Tesla only made about 2500 before it was discontinued and the Model S was release.

Nissan sold 20 000 Leafs in its first year. It was the first mass produced EV.

It took until early 2020 for Tesla cumulative sales to pass Leaf cumulative sales.

>He did push us into the EV era.

Yes, definitely and a lot of people (me included) where eyeing Tesla cars until the cybertruck/politics debacle.

>Incompetence before malice and so on.

At first, maybe, the Tesla 3 was announced for 30k$ and had a starting price of 35K$, acceptable. But the cybertruck announced at 40K$ sold at 60K$, less so.

>As a consumer, I'm pissed off. I do feel conned.

I can easily imagine that, I'm not a costumer and I feel conned.

How would investing in locally produced stuff increase inefficiency ?

If you pay someone 3x for work/service/product, x is the price and 2x is what you pay to encourage them to make/do the things instead of the people who could/would do it for x.

However, you're not paying 3x. I assume you're not really paying anything notably higher than x, right? So the encouragement is nearly zero.

Lack of scale or expertise (competitive advantage).

In wonder whether in a few years, we'll have a post complaining about windows 12 and that 11 was much better.

I bought a product that requires ID verification in Massachusetts and the cashier couldn't complete the transaction without scanning my driver's license.

How would this work with a VPN outside of UK that doesn't do it ? Will it be blocked?

It's becoming worse on a daily basis.

People are starting to get angry and if enough people are angry, this will lead to either government change or repression.

If it's repression, you're not ready for what's coming.

Okay

The second isn't publicly promoted.

I'm wondering whether it's a generational vision and that the concept of ownership of software with hardware is slowly becoming obsolete.

Every young adult I know uses a subscription for everything I used to buy. Even though they own the device on which they consume it.

Spotify for cd's, Netflix-Disney-Amazon for vhs and dvd's, Udemy-Masterclass for books.

CDs were around $16 in 2000, which is equivalent to around $30 today, which is around 2.3 times what a Spotify premium subscription costs for one person.

Equivalently, a Spotify premium subscription in 2000 would be a little under $7.

I guarantee that if you asked young adults in 2000 if they would be interested in a subscription that lets them listen to nearly everything available on CD, at any time, as often as they wished, for $7/month they would have been ecstatic.

Same for DVDs, which were typically in the $20-25 range for new releases in 2000. They would not have been quite as happy as they would have been with Spotify because of the way video is split among several streaming services, but it would still be seen as a tremendous improvement.

Not sure about the 35% here.

If I spend 100$ on an uber ride, 65$ goes to Uber while only 35$ is local ?

I thought it's was the other way around with a margin of 30% for Uber.

I usually ask most of my drivers how much they're getting paid for each ride. Across MCOL and HCOL areas like SF, NYC, HTX, ATX, DMV - I've generally been seeing around 40% going to the driver.

For example, this route shows for me at $57 (-$10 discount = $47) but the driver sees $20: https://www.reddit.com/r/uberdrivers/comments/1q5z1dg/f_you_...