What FSD scam?
You need to get properly informed instead of parroting the MSM.
YES, they got it wrong the problem was more difficult than first thought,
and YES, the original date and several further optimistic dates have come and gone.
BUT, the progress on FSD is considerable, and in the process Tesla have created a World Class AI team (that's what the AI day1 and now day 2 are ALL about i.e. aiming to recruit the very best talent).
So where is the scam?
Is your whole pension fund invested in Tesla or something?
Scam, let's start with Tesla putting out videos like these from 6 years ago
Then all the feature complete, by the end of the year tweets from Musk which happen every year, the promise of robotaxi just about every year..
Tesla time and the joke that that has become is well known, yet Musk carries on with his stupid predictions.
It is NOT good enough to say timescales have slipped a bit because the problem was harder than they thought when they've put out spurious videos or supposed progress over the years which turn out to be largely fake.
Isn't that' what's supposed to happen?
How many EV manufacturers were there before Tesla started up? So after they dragged the competition kicking and screaming into the EV world their "share of the EV market" is bound to "fall" - that's actually a GOOD thing !
Not if you listen to the Tesla fanboys who think the rest of the car manufacturers can't make an EV to save their lives. If Tesla are 10 years ahead of the competition as many of the supporters claim, including many on here, then why are 19 out of every 20 Electric cars sold across europe not a Tesla if the article is correct?
As for how many manufacturers were present early on... well
Nissan Leaf started the current generation back in 2010
BMW created their electric divsion in 2010 and were developing the i3 when Tesla were developing the Model S
Nissan and Renault paid for the ecotricity rapid charger network back in 2011 to support their early cars, which many Tesla owners were still using in the late 2010's ( I was a big ecotricity back in 2015 and 2016 when I got my first Tesla).
The Renault zoe started in 2012
Mercedes backed Tesla and invested in them as part of their corporate investment into EVs, you can still find a lot of Mercedes switchgear in the MS and MX, and Mercedes ued Tesla components for its first full EV.
History isn't as clear cut as "Tesla did it and everyone followed", and part of why Tesla leapt forward is Musk and his promises, many of which he did deliver on (primarily performance and range, although even those aren't without controversy) and his self driving capability which hasn't. That has been defined by a 3rd party system initially, and now a system that is still going around in circles because they can't land on a final hardware stack, and in the UK it's substandard to most of the competition (because most of the competition are on systems 2 generations on from the Tesla AP1 stack).
Ask yourself some simple questions - take the videos above - from 6 years ago - yet only a year ago, a full FIVE years later, they decide they have issues stitching images together, and they finally give up on the radar. How are those two things compatible without the former being a misrepresentation of where they really were?
