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My stock investment history is full of wishes. Wouda, couda, shouda. Mutual funds have been very good to me and are the core of my estate, but they never bought me a "free" car and left me with a 7 figure gain.

A majority likely yes, but nowhere even 90%. I for one am very thankful for his purchase of the unmentionable company.

You're missing the point. Tesla's failure to read these signs means it exits the highway at 65mph into the exit turn, WAY too fast such that an intervention is required. You can criticize HW departments for making those signs yellow but REAL FSD must function in the real world of human...

I could not agree more with this. Think about it from Elon's perspective. Also, "voting shareholders should not be trusted with deciding the future of" SpaceX. Why SpaceX will never do an IPO. I do see SpaceX likely spinning off Skynet (sic) into an IPO, one not run by Elon.

Agreed. Thread on FB about Tesla service center coming to town. Brought out the EV haters. It was easy fun refuting their ignorant claims. 256 replies and NOT ONE mentioned Elon Musk or Twitter/X. People are indifferent. It's the EV vs My gas car issue, not I hate Tesla because of tweets.

Yes Elon has said his objective is to be the "Least Wrong" as is possible. This engineer loves this attitude. This implies that a prior strategy or opinion can get radically changed as new information is obtained. Many interpret any change in direction as "Elon lied!" This explains a lot about...

It is a Disagree button. I use it to Disagree. I agree that piling on with posts after a perceived (eye of beholder) troll has been responded to clutters the forum.

Agree wholeheartedly. Major steps forward. My gripe list: VERY S L O W proceeding after stops at a STOP sign. All these cameras & processing per should be faster, not slower, than a 90 yr old. Exits highway ramps at highway speeds. DANGEROUS. Root problem: doesn't read any Yellow background...

I believe you have not read the last several pages here. These are not my statements.

Elon's mean tweets are irritating potential customers and hurting sales. All my friends say this. Only 2% or less people read or follow twitter and as such it is an utter PR failure for Musk's messages. Same people. Different threads.

Quoting because it is SO on point.

Disagree. Problem being that the FSD still hesitates far longer than a human before proceeding. Drives like a 90 year old at stop signs. C'mon man, you (Tesla) have more cameras than we have eyes plus Tesla can look ahead and left and right simultaneously even before coming to a fulll stop. USE...

"Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." We are living in a Stalinist error era. Sic Transit Gloria Republic USA.

Despite Tesla being around a while, the Tesla CEO still has the startup mentality. I'm retired now but in my 1st engineering jobs I put in 70 HR weeks. It was noticed and co-workers on the rise who later left for other companies and managers who were not my own noticed it and I forever had...

Or seeking advice on how best to do another 10% workforce cut! I hope I'm joking. Speaking not as a stockholder in this post but as a person sympathetic with hard working people. Doubt many slackers are employed at Tesla.

Beloved Buffet & Geico suck more cash from inflation besieged Americans while hated Musk continues to drop prices for Tesla automobiles. Irony.

I for one welcome our new robotic overlords. In my Quisling/Vichy position I offer my home as a trial site for Optimus home robots.

I buy #3. Love it and I now love driving for the 1st time in my life. As to #2, I have FSD latest release. It tried to cause serious accidents every other time I use it. It misses highway speed limit signs, exits the highway at 65mph ignoring 30mph speed limit signs. It's not relaxing to use...

I also hope he stays until ready to "Get yo' *** to Mars!" time. However, I disagree about how you framed your leaving over shareholder vote scenario. Elon said, paraphrased, that he nees the shares because he believes it is vitally important to work on AI and unless he has a significant...

I pretty much agree. Musk has said as much though it's his typical hyperbole. I'm in long for the AI & robotics stuff. Robo taxi is many years off based on my FSD experiences. Tougher than Optimus factory, etc. implementation because of an unconstrained huge environment vs a factory task.

Missed the significant role Elon gave her in charge of the entire Starship program in Texas. Engineering & project management.

12.3.3 experiences Great improvement over 11 releases, however... Exits highway at full speed. Not safe. Generic need to read yellow speed signs here in NH. Not hard to implement. Friggin Do It! Goes unstable when planning to turn left and viola! a left lane suddenly appears. Unsafe. Slows to...

Since now we're into allowing FSD discussions, as a Beta guy with the latest I would have but did not disengage twice this morning. Came upon wet roads and car slowed to 2 MPH twice. Well under a half inch and later maybe almost a 2 inch deep water encounter. Would have bailed FSD had anyone...

Were I to respond I would be BANNED.

A Branson vanity project where he went pump & dump when he belatedly realized that there was no there there with the dead end technology.

This is clearly true. You cats rarely get emotionally attached to your servants' cars, called "Going to the Vet syndrome", while dogs love riding in cars, head out the window and mouth open. Walking on car hoods, windshields and roofs with paw prints does not count as emotional attachment.

Now that once again others have spoken, there are some of us here who feel the opposite about the purchase. Short term stock price is far less important than many other issues. /end

Agreed. Southern NH here. When using the MA service center, the big issue is we cannot take new car delivery without paying MA sales tax. I had to use Paramus NJ. Tesla is s l o w l y building a Londonderry NH service site. Not a fan of the location. Had it been near Rt 95N, the $outhern Maine...

How long a walk will it be to the nearby "Men's" Club? Asking for a fiend friend.

Suggest sending them to Tesla Germany. They have ways...

My uninformed take on South Asia, e.g. India. Tesla likely and should be waiting for smaller Gen 3 vehicle design and most importantly resultant new FACTORY design before building a factory there.

It's a selfish position but my target is buy 1,000 shares if price approaches $100/share. High interest rates killing car loans. Small inexpensive Tesla 3 years away in volume. As a recent (2019) but long term investor I'm looking for major appreciation towards decade's end. Why so long...

Brings long ago pleasant memories of Robbie the Robot driving on Altair 4 to greet Captain JJ Adams and his crew.

Myriad problems with that: Rivian has a mfg cost BIG problem. Outsourcing to Foxconn strategy won't help with that. Elon's comment that electric car mgmnt needed to live in the factory was spot on. Plus even reaching profit/Rivian the margins are thin compared to what Apple & it's stockholders...

With all due deference, I always found it utterly futile to explain my positions, etc. to my cats in a manner they could understand.

Having failed (lack of courage & attention) to sell some IRA shares Jan 1st and buy back in the spring, my next plan is to buy another tranch of 1,000 if stock approaches 100. I was fortunate enough to have sold shares near highs to buy my Model Y and to fund gifts. Playing with beau coup house...

Thumbs down received can be misleading. I rated this post as Informative as I wanted to see what the WSJ millennials were claiming about Tesla, its BOD, etc. Did I buy the FUD, No! But it got me behind the paywall. I read this Forum for information. I do not have to like it and maybe do not...

Regarding Right on Red there's an intersection on75th & Rt64 in Bradenton where a white No Turn on Red LED sign pops up often & under control of crossing guards. It's way up high and nowhere near the traffic lights. Stuff like this and other drivers waving to you indicating you may proceed as I...

This annoying and often illegal tendency needs to be fixed. A sorta Chill mode for left lane changes.

Forwarding post to FBI terrorist squad to interrogate poster

I knew you knew better. Senior moment? :)

Nit Toyota has not switched to methane CH4 but possibly to ammonia NH3. Methane burning emits carbon while ammonia does not. In reality ammonia might emit nitrous oxides which is not good AND ammonia is highly toxic. Toyota is on a Bataan Death March. :) Love the kill users snark! Continue..

Challenge accepted!

Reverse paraphrasing Gone With The Wind, "We's po now!"

I note that you just said MAY but I strongly disagree. Musk will not risk diluting his SpaceX control position. It's a core value that he needs to control SpaceX independent of anyone(s) else. SpaceX makes risky mars focused investments where others or their stock inheritors may not share the...

Another example from the 70s I was a Principal Engineer at DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation, a minicomputer star of that era. Doing Business School nights at Babson I ran an Oracle decision making experiment that was supposed to converge opposing opinions on good results after iterations...

Why I Am Not Rich and Not a Brilliant Investor... Part 101 Once again to my dismay, my plan was to sell out just my IRA Tesla holdings (no tax hit) Jan 2nd @ 248 figuring that the price would drop below 200 to 180s or 190s and I could buy back in around April, May, whatever. But did I do so...

Tesla ~ 13% net worth and ~15% investments. Rest of investment is mutual funds (no other stocks) yielding fine year to year returns but no potential explosive upside like Tesla. Speculative investments should best be a minority of investments unless young & single generating excess income over...

Brutal FORTUNE article and worse comments on Yahoo Finance about Elon's utter failure in Germany & UK 4th QTR. FUD is like toe fungus. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/just-tesla-loses-ev-crown-134510604.html Shots ridiculing me for looking at Yahoo Finance are expected!

Before Optimus' general public release, I strongly suggest a means to prevent the bot from learning by observing cat behavior.