Fourdoor
Active Member
Well, geezersquid disagrees with me. I guess he DOES think the other auto makers have Tesla killer levels of autonomy.Nobody I have seen in this thread is claiming that any other manufacturer is a "Tesla killer"... we all want Tesla to thrive. But keeping the blinders on about other companies with lane centering and adaptive cruise control systems that work properly, and pretending that Tesla's system is as good as (let alone better than) other manufacturers will hurt Tesla in the long run. Tesla is pursuing edge case self driving while ignoring basic adaptive cruise control and lane centering. This isn't customer driven, it is an obsession of the founder of the company with massive amounts of ego invested in being right about not needing anything other than cameras, and being the first to have real self driving cars.
As to your computer industry analogy, look at the flip side. Computers (cars) have existed for a century and then a small innovative company comes alone that makes them better, faster, and more efficient. Do the existing computer companies go belly up and die? Or do they adapt? Tesla will never be "killed" by the legacy auto makers... but in reality Tesla will not "kill" the legacy auto makers either. It most likely will become just another car maker amongst the crowd.
Keith
Keith