Yes its like saying well this car doesn't need to be serviced as much as a conventional ice car but add in the corrective service center visits that will burn up more time than an oil change. Phantom Braking is a thing so is quality control and until proven otherwise as an owner and recipient of software updates not only is the build quality in question now but so is the software. I am not against a future vision we need EV’s but there is doing it right or doing it sloppy. Releasing software to frustrate your customers is sloppy. Especially with a non existent deadline. Whoever tests this back at mothership needs a new objective.
You say you want a future with EV’s.
Elon and Tesla are the reason EV’s are now growing to that future. The other guys wanted nothing to do with them until he forced their hand.
Here’s the catch CertLive; Tesla can’t improve, innovate, or create new software for that future if they can’t sell cars now.
You and I helped by buying one of their cars.
He used that profit to start improving on the cars, so they get better. ElectricIAC then saw them getting better, and he bought one also.
Now he has more money to innovate and add features like a dashcam viewer. !
It’s not perfect, because he needs to spend time, money, and resources making more cars, to work on more innovation to sell to stay strong and continue to grow. That imperfect dashcam viewer will help sell more car for now though. He will continue to improve it though.
I guess if he was truly a smarter business man, he would have said WAIT, I really need to stop everything, and make sure CertLive is completely happy with a fully baked Dashcam viewer before we do anything more.
However, I suspect if he did this, his company would start to falter. If he stopped every time he had a new feature to work on, to ensure it met the perfect standards you and say ElectricIAC insist you’re entitled to, I’m pretty sure Tesla would die.
He’s developing, releasing, and then improving it as he goes along. Just like many other successful companies do. It’s the only way he can. It’s not incompetence, it’s how he survivors and sells more cars. Eventually, he will improve it, when more are sold. Be patient.
But if you think you’ve got his business model locked down to a better path; for all our sakes, please give him a quick call, and make sure he knows how to deploy his cars and software much better than he’s doing it now, so he can truly be successful and follow your better business model.
