Right. I do remember an interview with Elon Musk from the earliest days of Tesla, where he said that the USA was the best country in the world to start a business. While this may very well still be true, I guess Musk now has some qualifiers to add to that. Like, the best as long as no really influential industries are being disrupted...
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Right. I do remember an interview with Elon Musk from the earliest days of Tesla, where he said that the USA was the best country in the world to start a business. While this may very well still be true, I guess Musk now has some qualifiers to add to that. Like, the best as long as no really influential industries are being disrupted...
Off Shore
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Are you referring to the new building site, or problems afflicting the shorts?
Seeing as how the bedrock is over 200 meters below ground level (more like 300m), I don't think you are wrong...
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pyromatter
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You can see the rope/string that pulled it over.
shrspeedblade
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Hopefully Tesla will be pile driving something else with the Q4 earnings report!
Heading there today already!
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You can tell it's real because the guy is super distraught that it fell over. Luckily it sustained no damage whatsoever.
Tomorrow ARK Invest will conduct its monthly webinar beginning at 13:30 EST. TSLA is the top holding by ARK. CEO Cathie Wood normally leads the webinar before turning over to her staff. TSLA is almost always discussed either within the main presentations or during the Q&A session.
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If the area is subject to earth quakes which I don't know, soil liquifaction might become an issue. In the SF financial district they drive to bed rock because of this risk since the area is built on fill.
Soil liquefaction - Wikipedia
Nice, though I don't think her comments usually had a lot of weight in regards to the SP ? No ? Genuinely curious
Friction piles then, most likely. (assuming there are strata of granular soils, like sand, to supply the friction).
Sure, liquefaction is a concern, but SF's bedrock is less than 100 meters down. Other options are used, Salesforce Tower (tallest skyscraper in 2015) didn't go to bedrock, it got its own fake rock instead: It Took 18 Hours to Pour the Foundation for San Francisco's Tallest Skyscraper
Other buildings are also not bedrocked (with various results) Millennium Tower: We were never ‘expected, advised, or required’ to drill into bedrock
There is an earthquake risk, but it's lower than China's other major metro hubs - not an extreme risk. Shanghai's biggest problems are flooding (it's considered the highest flood-risk major city on Earth). It's also in a typhoon zone.
Actually good Bloomberg article:
Tesla’s Life After Hell: 7 Charts Show Musk on Firmer Footing
Also, key section:
"All analysts surveyed by Bloomberg now predict that Tesla will turn a profit in the fourth quarter, with an average estimate of $206 million on a GAAP basis. That’s a major reversal from April, when analysts’ consensus was for a fourth-quarter loss of about $234 million. The change in expectations for Tesla’s 2019 free cash flow are even more stark, flipping to about $837 million from negative $795 million as of early May. "
We now have our numbers. Don't let FactSet BS anyone this time.
Tesla’s Life After Hell: 7 Charts Show Musk on Firmer Footing
Also, key section:
"All analysts surveyed by Bloomberg now predict that Tesla will turn a profit in the fourth quarter, with an average estimate of $206 million on a GAAP basis. That’s a major reversal from April, when analysts’ consensus was for a fourth-quarter loss of about $234 million. The change in expectations for Tesla’s 2019 free cash flow are even more stark, flipping to about $837 million from negative $795 million as of early May. "
We now have our numbers. Don't let FactSet BS anyone this time.
I couldn't, but the 'collision' is entirely non-physical. Since the mass of the Tesla is many times that of the robot, the collision should instantaneously accelerate the robot to the speed of the Tesla, so basically throw it off the road. In order for the Tesla to cause it to slowly tip over as is it seen to do, the robot would have to be very poorly balanced and then receive the smallest nudge from the passing car.
A pathetic prank in other words.
What they could have done is to run the cord from the robot into the trees, loop it around a tree and then across the road.
Then when the Tesla drives into the cord, it would jerk the robot off the road (and break the cord).
I like this theory and hope you're right!
Same. Imagine what a relief and a victory this whole Chinese factory thing is for Elon though. I bet his praise here is heartfelt.
It's actually a brilliant piece of PR on the part of Shanghai. Because it's Tesla they're dealing with - one of the most controversial story-stocks on Earth - the entire business world will be watching to see how this turns out.
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