Profitability is never a constraint for Elon companies. He has always been able to be able to extract money from the middle east, government, banks, retail investors (or these same parties through his other companies) whenever they need more.
His net worth is orders of magnitude bigger than the cumulative profits his companies have ever produced (even if you only count the profitable quarters)
It's really easy to do this actually. You just create cars that drive themselves and rockets that land themselves and people start throwing money at you.
I paid for a car that drives itself in 2018 and I haven’t received it. Any updates?
2018 cars get FSD 14 lite this month. Not a great situation but not bad for an 8 year old car.
> Not a great situation but not bad for an 8 year old car.
Not bad to get a product that underdeliver 8 years late ?
When can I get a Tesla that drives itself? About six months?
From your local Tesla dealer. Technically, you do still have to "supervise" it, which basically means making sure the little camera that watches your eyes doesn't catch you with your eyes off the road too much.
My sister-in-law's mother drove one from Florida to the northeast without touching the steering wheel or pedal/brake, right down to the parking at each end.
I've been a humongous fsd sceptic for a while, but had to lay that aside after I went for a test drive (test ride?) in one of these things.
What that technicality means is that you are liable when the car kills someone, not Tesla. Level 3 self-driving is a completely broken idea. People cannot closely supervise a process that never requires their input - when you suddenly are needed you will not be prepared to respond quickly enough. Either you are driving the car, or you aren't. If you are liable, you are driving it.
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