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So did TDA. Too bad it no longer exists (FYI, I didn't get moved until after I voted).

That's how it should be. No vote means you agree with the BoD's recommendations. If you want to vote against the BoD, you have to take action.

You should recall that the battery day called for a six year timeline. It hasn't been six years yet, so calling 4680 behind schedule is incorrect, regardless of how many posts there have been about it.

"Stop Loss Order" is how Wall Street acquires your shares for cheap. They know exactly where the stop loss orders are and use naked shorting to push the price down below the Stop Loss value. The best Stop Loss Order is no Stop Loss Order. (It does have some value on mature companies sliding...

I've never seen a post directly from Apple on X. MacRumors and similar, yes. Saw them this morning.

As far as I know, you don't need to do anything but wait until the Foundation series is over.

That is certainly one way to lose customers.

Only if you want no more innovation from Tesla.

I sort of agree, but the problem with the grid model is it puts control of electricity in the hands of too few people who don't have the consumers' best interest at heart. So we get grids that are not well maintained and political pressure to limit distributed energy production (solar panels and...

The pay package wasn't excessive in view of the perceived difficulties of success. I don't believe any BoD at the time would believe that Elon could actually accomplish everything stated. Hindsight is of no value unless you have a time machine.

No different than other car manufacturers but the dealer network hides most of this. Tesla is transparent.

I would settle for a few hours on city streets.

No idea. Freightliner is a custom built truck, so there won't be any standard configuration, although there will be common configurations but customizable. Mack and Volvo are popcorn trucks (Tesla will be in this category too, but on steroids).

Delaware used to be as you say. This anti-corporate business is Delaware’s new direction. Tesla is not the only company leaving.

If Texas screws their first big company, no other company will even consider Texas. I think it’s a reasonably low risk move.

The hail and shopping cart resistance is one reason. Efficiency appears to be better than my X is another. And people around here just like trucks.

My friends are always amazed at the turning radius of my X. It’s smaller than their PT Cruiser. (The S was the same)

25 km/h is a reasonable speed for a reasonably fit rider (not a racer).

I have one account with only nine shares. Fortunately my other accounts have a lot more.

Agreed. Everyone here is hyper-sensitized to Musk and all things Tesla. Almost everyone else doesn't know, doesn't care.

A long history of computer chips tells me that marketing numbers do not match real life performance. Even benchmarks are not that accurate except for the test data used.

I remember that as well.

If you had all the money in the world, sure a replacement factory would be a nice to have. However, Fremont is the most productive automobile factory in North America--even with it's issues.

Agreed. I define science as a method of investigation. Its touchstone is repeatability by others. Changing input variable can make the repeatability test fail, in which case something is learned.

Or at least they've solved it as long as it's following a car going no faster than 40 mph on selected roads. One hopes these roads will never have a sinkhole.

Actually it adds a lot of value. It's saved me from two accidents. I call that good value for money.

The Soviet Union did, not Russia.

Trying to think (hard I know). I lived in Canada at the time and when driving in places such as rural Saskatchewan or Manitoba I recall hitting birds once I went 130 or over. I'm almost positive it was km/h but it was around the time of the transition, so I could be misremembering (though I...

Strictly speaking, even FSD still will have sight distances on hills and curves. Speed limits are supposed to be designed so there will be enough reaction time to stop--this isn't always the case, sometimes they are designed to increase city revenue. In some places it is not safe to go faster...

You'd also never have an ICE vehicle as a Robotaxi. It would either have to be running all the time, which would kill any hope of profits, or it would have a standby mode which would drain the 12V battery pretty quickly. Even if you include PHEVs, it's unlikely they could run at a profit.

When Tesla had a PR department, all that happened was anything the PR department said was taken out of context and turned negative. At best it was a net zero. Also remember that the public has been lied to so often by corporations that no one believes what a PR department says anyway.

Beats me. I've been searching for a definition ever since the term came out. As best I can tell it's whatever you don't like on a particular day. Kind of similar to Commie in the 1950s.

That strategy won't work, agreed. But if they purchase a significant amount of the current Supercharger network, then they can either close them all down or raise the prices higher than gas.

There's no fee for the forced change.

For a person, I don't think so. It's just $5 and trolls don't hang around for that long. $5 deters bots from X because there are thousands, but for a single person, it's a nothing-burger.

Agreed. Buying Supercharger sites by an oil company is scary. Buying the hardware is bullish.

Don't know, my accounts are supposed to be moved this week. Fortunately, I have already voted because I understand it's a nightmare to vote your shares at Schwab. I'm also wondering if my open orders will get moved (I assume not, but who knows). Allowing this buyout was a great disservice to...

It depends on if this is just North America or world wide. I can see 500 people for world wide because you need people familiar with how each country does business. If it's just North America, 500 people shouldn't be necessary. At most one per state/province plus admin staff. Yes, there are...

Proving it can be done and others actually doing it are two different things. I have little faith in those who copy actually having a stable, reliable, and affordable network.

I don't believe enough people exit to fill the police ranks to enforce it for everyone. Best to not enforce it for all. However, if you hit someone by not fully stopping, then, regardless of what the other driver was doing, it's your fault.

The problem I see with the Exalted Few (EF) method is occasionally there are new posters with valuable contributions, I don't see how they will have a chance to become an EF if they aren't allowed to post. Right now I believe the ignore function is the only current way to allow new, and possibly...

Isn't that why we are on TMC?

Another day, another new vocabulary word.

The longest range is rear wheel drive rather than all wheel drive. You give up one to get the other. I don't see a problem here.

Agreed. The last ten years were "Will it be tomorrow"?

Voting done through the broker's links, not Say. Say was for verification to Tesla. (There are 9 shares at risk due to password).

The vote comes through my broker. I already voted all the shares in all the accounts.

Well, I gave them the account that has 9 shares and a couple of hundred bucks, so any data breach will not be devastating. And who knows, perhaps Say will refund the losses.

A typical method is to have the dummy stationary, and then just before the car passes, pull a string to put it in front of the car in a fraction of a second. No real person moves like that. It probably takes a few tries to get it just right.

The fly in the ointment is you have to give your password to the account(s) with the shares. This means a data breach could easily wipe you out.