I'm not clear on what Tesla is doing these days. They've been left in the dust on autonomous driving, they've failed to update their successful car models, and their only new model was a spectacular failure.
> Ask the CEO? Based on recent incentives and acquisitions, are they planning to remain a car company?
I believe Musk wants to hype humanoid robots, because he can't get away with irrationally hyping electric cars or self-driving technology like you used to.
Tesla was never a car company, their real product is sci-fi dreams.
Tesla Model 3 highest overall in owner satisfaction.
"Left in the dust?"
That's why Chevy has a bunch from them, including "Highest initial quality"
That's like paying for a "self-juicing juicer" that only works with proprietary juice packages sold through an overpriced subscription.
Edit: Mostly a criticism. I have no bone to pick with Elon, but subscription slopware is the reason why Chinese EVs are more desirable to average Joes like me.
For luxury car owners or people who want the statement, subscriptions are good way to capture additional payment. Since if customers wanted to pick the cheapest option, they would have already picked something else.
Waymo on the other hand has a level 4 system, and has for many years, in many cities, with large service areas.
Tesla is unquestionably in the dust here, and the delusional, er, faithful are holding out for this mythical switch flip where Elon snaps his fingers and every Tesla turns into a level 4 robotaxi (despite the compute power in these cars being on the level of a GTX 5090, and the robotaxis having custom hardware loadouts)
If you want to call this "autonomous" well then we are arguing semantics. But I think colloquially, autonomous means "no human".
By the fact that they don't have autonomous driving. And this very judgement demonstrates that.
If you have to keep your full attention on the road at all times and constantly look out for the 10% case where the autopilot may spectacularly fail, it instantly turns off the vast majority of prospective users.
Funny enough the tech that Musk's tweets and the Tesla hype machine has been promising for the last decade is actually on the streets today. It's just being rolled out by Waymo.
though they did update the model y (looks like a duck), they just cancelled the model S and X
In 2 years Tesla will be replacing most factory workers with fully autonomous robots that will do most of the work. This will generate trillions in revenue and is totally definitely trust me bro possible.
Expect huge updates on this coming in the near future, soon. Tesla will be the most valuable company on Earth. Get in the stock now.
(cars, solar panels, energy storage, and robotaxis are no longer part of the roadmap because optimus bots will bring in so much money in 2 years definitiely that these things won't matter so don't ask about them or think about them thanks.)