84 year old grandmother very disappointed...

[jboy210]

nah, the interns were all busy designing the model X (I actually heard that from a former tesla employee, fwiw!)

Of course those interns were Stanford Post-doc students with PhDs in Computer Science and/or Engineering.

 

[linux-works]

Of course those interns were Stanford Post-doc students with PhDs in Computer Science and/or Engineering.

brilliance is great.

...but no substitute for experience.

 

[jboy210]

brilliance is great.

...but no substitute for experience.

As someone who has been kicking around for a few years I agree. But with Teslas being as much about AI and Machine Learning as anything else, most older engineers I run into don't get it or refuse to embrace AI/ML. And just because you have been cutting code for decades like me, does not mean a ML model cannot kick your butt on many really hard problems.

 

[SMAlset]

brilliance is great.

...but no substitute for experience.

Although experience can lead people down the path of sameness and a fresh pair of eyes and thought is what gave us Teslas and taking us beyond.

 

[Matt L]

Lots of people just lurk and then join when they have a problem. Grandmother is irrelevant, a bunch of people have reported canceled end-of-year deliveries.

Yes sure...but he made is 84 year old grandmother (!!!!!!!!!!!) the center of his post.

yes I’m well aware that demand exceeded supply in the 4th quarter. Either that, or Tesla just felt like picking on old ladies

 

[Matt L]

Huh, given the photo is date stamped December 30th at 6:29 pm, she seems pretty happy despite the cancellation that would have occurred a day or two prior.
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I’ll stick with my FUD statement

 

[Matt L]

Tesla apparently lacks the software to track current and future production. Maybe they should hire some college interns to write it for them.

Or future demand. If you have software for that, I’m buying

 

[Type 5]

Makes me wonder why people are buying the last week of December.

Maybe because some of them ordered in September, October and November? And because California is sequenced for the last deliveries of the quarter. Yes, that is probably the reason.
In my case, I had no idea about the drama of ordering and receiving a Tesla. I ordered it December 02, 2019 and picked it up December 20, 2019 - with many drama points in between those dates. I just was not in the market until the last week of November, nor did I know how Tesla serviced sales. That is why I bought in the last part of December.