In the middle 1950's, there was a lot of buzz about stereo records. There was talk about standards, costs, etc and things weren't moving very fast. Suddenly a small niche company named Audio Fidelity released a stereo record of "The Dukes of Dixieland". It had an adhesive sticker on the album saying "Stereo". It had been made on a modified Westrex cutter. Simultaneously Electrovoice released a $23 ceramic stereo cartridge and stereo discs were born. Innovators do not wait for standards and industry consensus. They blow through the barriers at warp speed. That is what Tesla is trying to do with FSD.
I still have one of those first records. It has fine quality but somewhat low volume because they hadn't quite figured out a good algorithm for high volume low distortion in the cutter. That was solved in weeks. That was quite a ride much like the one we're on with Tesla now.
I still have one of those first records. It has fine quality but somewhat low volume because they hadn't quite figured out a good algorithm for high volume low distortion in the cutter. That was solved in weeks. That was quite a ride much like the one we're on with Tesla now.