He seems to imply some forces spending money just to keep the price from going down, and that it's not organic sellers who are buying the stock (forming support).
Any thoughts?
Isn't that the whole softbank story? Tons of $ spent on options driving up price.
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You make a good point that we should not overlook: that it should be over-the-top obvious whether AutoSteer and/or cruise control is engaged or not, even for newbies or lame CR reviewers. Of course If they don’t understand how to even look for the status, then they shouldn’t be using these features at all. But if they are honestly missing it, it means that a lot of normal folks new to AP will also, and that should be a valid topic of concern and discussion..
Part of the problem is remember Elon constantly thinks Level 5 FSD is almost done. And has thought that since at least 2016.
So there wasn't a need to spend a lot of time/effort on mode clarity since soon it'd just drive itself.
There wasn't a need to spend a lot of time/effort on driver attention checks because soon it'd just drive itself.
There wasn't a need for advanced blind spot and cross traffic warnings, because soon it'd just drive itself.
There wasn't a need for any sort of parking camera assists, because soon it'd just go park itself.
And indeed if L5 really was "ready next year" as we've been hearing since '16, those are absolutely the right thing to do.... why waste $ putting LEDs on your side mirrors for blind spot warning if the car is gonna change lanes all by itself all the time? Why waste $ on advanced driver monitoring if you don't need a driver? etc...)... so leaving all that stuff out of the design of the 3 (and thus Y) made perfect sense in that content.
The problem of course is it's 4 years later and it's still not just driving itself, (and generally doing a crap, very limited, job parking itself too) so there's tons of em on the road still driven by humans and either lacking or using very after-thoughty versions of those systems.
Caddy has a very clear indicator of mode built right into the steering wheel- likewise a much more advanced driver attention system.
Because they knew their system was limited to L2, and always would be.
Which makes it great for a casual reviewer not familiar with the car to be very comfortable with the system- even if overall it's a lot less capable compared to Teslas.
Whereas Teslas system can do a lot more (and will do more still in the future) but since it's in a sort of halfway-to-original-intent state right now a casual reviewer who doesn't spend the time to understand the current version and its limitations could much more easily be confused by it.