Knightshade
Well-Known Member
In another post I point out that at least one Tesla innovation resulted in a new SAE standard. Please look at the NACS standard before you blithely state that compliance with any SAE standard renders an innovation impossible. Therefore not necessarily "fundamentally wrong".
There's a pretty massive difference there.
Nothing in existing law cared about your charging port in terms of if it was legal to deploy it or not.
Self driving laws do
You're making an apples and hand grenades comparison there.
I make no comment on likelihood or not. I'm not qualified to do that. I can and do understand the SAE standards process and it's limitations. They are NOT regulations, even though some do become enshrined in regulations.
And they are. Enshrined in the self driving car laws of every state currently allowing self driving. Which is why they matter fundamentally to deploying such a vehicle.
Lack of an SAE standard on NACS never stopped Tesla from deploying superchargers though- because nobody made it illegal to deploy chargers that don't comply with an SAE standard. They DO make it illegal to deploy self driving cars that don't comply with one.
Please understand the difference. You're far too competent to not know this.
back at ya
Now- if your argument is instead Tesla could lobby to get the laws changed I'd say three things:
Sure- though that is not a process that is remotely fast.
And sure- just like they could to allow direct sales of cars to consumers- something they've worked at for a decade and yet is still illegal in a surprising number of US states.
And sure- but there'd still need to be a standard--- Look at the time lapse from NACS existing and being an SAE standard. It wasn't quick. And self driving standards are much more complex.
So sure that's "possible" in a years distant future you can get those things done.. It's just not possible TODAY.
And might just be easier for Tesla to actually get the missing pieces to reach J3016 L4 standards than get a whole new standard established AND get all the relevant states to switch to it in law.