Thread by @davetroy

Is Tesla a serious company, or a parlor trick?

With no real plan for actual FSD, poor sensor performance, batteries that cost nearly as much to replace as a new car, and a stock price tethered to… nothing… what are we really looking at here? washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

A real company, one that wanted to have a viable future, would not be eliminating its public comms shop at just the time they need to sell the world on its vision for AV. I smell dead 🐟 and a CEO/Emperor/warlord/man-child with no clothes.

I say this for many reasons. One reason is Musk’s deep involvement in the present hybrid war against global democracy, and his willingness to use financial manipulation as part of that hybrid warfare. He seems to be more invested in that battle than in making his companies work.

Tesla, as noted, has good demand but terminal product flaws and stalled production capacity. Its FSD promises are not fulfillable. The stock price is just a bubble, based on hopium. And Musk is aligned with Flynn and Ezra Levant. Again, I smell dead 🐟.

My considered belief is that TSLA shareholders are gonna go through some things this year as the level of deception and chicanery is exposed, possibly with Musk himself leading that exposure and/or meltdown. Hybrid warfare is hybrid, y’all. 🤷‍♂️

Oh and Neuralink is a total fugazi; SpaceX is doing space stuff but is really just NASA patents, privatized; Starlink is useful but doesn’t need Musk. Our little Tony Stark is a portfolio of intelligence and DARPA projects he got handed so he could play the role of John Galt.

He’s a made man. You heard it here first.

Disclosure: I leased a Model 3. It’s a nice car. I have found the “autopilot” in the Nissan Rogue (mid-range SUV) to perform far better than the Tesla’s. But the Tesla can fart and stuff. And the charging network is good. But I see trouble ahead.

And wrt the “phantom braking” problem — its *very* bad in cars with radar and requires constant vigilance. Can only imagine how awful it is in cars without radar in current 2022 models. This is things getting worse, not better, folks.