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In the meantime let's let the start-up company with a lot on its plate worry about the real innovation and quit moaning.
I agree, Tesla should worry about their real innovations, like the car-shaped key fob that's too big for normal key rings or retracting door handles that are harder to use. :wink:
Look, I get how disruptive technology gets adopted - by being better in some areas, even if not better in others. The early adopters choose the new thing because the area in which the disruptive technology is superior is more important to them than other areas. As the technology matures, it gets as good if not better in most areas - and this coupled with a shift in what areas people think are important makes the disruptive technolog replace the existing for the general population.
Tesla chose the market in which they wanted to compete. If Tesla wanted to focus on drivetrain and suspension innovations, then they needed to choose a market for which those are the overriding concerns. That's what they did successfully with Roadster, but the overall market is too small. I can see an argument that MSP competing against M5s is a market that's well suited for Tesla. But again, I think that market is too small for Tesla. So, how well does the equivalent Model S compete against a 535i or A6/A7 - and isn't that the market in which Tesla needs to be successful right now? And, doesn't that market highly value things like park distance sensors?
So what we're seeing in this thread is a example of what will be going on in the market. Will enough people value Tesla's electric drivetrain over the items normally found in comparable cars to make them successful?
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