Knightshade
Well-Known Member
In a perfect world Tesla buys/absorbs Starlink, rather than it having an IPO. Elon keeps promise to favor Tesla shareholders, who rejoice in HODL ecstasy!
A Starlink receiver is designed for Tesla cars, becomes standard on new, easy retrofit on old, and Starlink becomes the default connection for all OTA updates on cars so equipped, reducing some current connectivity costs.
Starlink remains a terrible solution for a car you plan to sell many millions a year of that will often be driving in dense urban areas, parking in places with no line of sight to sky, etc..
That's apart from the antenna being too big, sucking a ton more power than cell, and the other drawbacks.
Starlink is a AWESOME solution for non-dense rural areas where internet choice is terrible. Likewise for relatively small numbers of large transport units that tend to always be outside/remotely located (cruise ships, aircraft, RVs etc)
Elon himself has said Starlink makes no sense for the cars multiple times.
Why do people not believe him?