Anytime a company has such poor governance, you can guarantee there is some bad stuff under the hood that isn't being governed. Can't wait for everyone to claim they never saw this coming, then claim it was obvious all along ... 1615299152698564609 is not a valid tweet id
I mean they did agree to give Elmo $200bn in CEO pay because he needed it for interplanetary exploration
I am so relieved I didn't buy this whacko's EV. Hundreds of Tesla owners gathered at the automaker’s showrooms and distribution centers in China over the weekend, demanding rebates and credit after sudden price cuts they said meant they had overpaid for electric cars they bought earlier. On Saturday, about 200 recent buyers of the Tesla Model Y and Model 3 gathered at a Tesla delivery center in Shanghai to protest against the US carmaker’s decision to slash prices for the second time in three months on Friday.
TBF, the price cut needed to happen and Tesla is still turning a profit per car. This is obviously a PR issue for Tesla, but it is a short one and the further we get away from the price cut, the less of a hit they'll take.
********ING CLOWN..... How does it feel to be shunned by even those rich assholes? “The World Economic Forum says billionaire Elon Musk wasn’t on the guest list for the annual meeting of business executives, global leaders and cultural trend-setters in Davos, Switzerland — despite what the Twitter owner claims,” the AP reports.
Microsoft is firing 10,000 workers in the next three months. https://www.geekwire.com/2023/full-...workforce-and-take-1-2b-restructuring-charge/
Firing and laying off are a bit different, but yeah. The whole tech field went cuckoo with the 0% fed interest rates. Now that those rates are up, they all have to streamline. Anyway, you seem to intentionally be leaving out a bunch of context: A sad bit with Microsoft is all the money and effort that were poured into Watson & supercomputing, which they then failed to capitalize on in any meaningful way.
Maybe more cost cutting will be needed at Twitter Source: Twitter's Q4 2022 revenue fell ~35% YoY to $1.025B, 72% of its internal goal for Q4; it hopes to generate $732M in Q1 2023, which would be down 39% YoY (@erinkwoo / The Information)https://t.co/SLNaS9eMa9https://t.co/E33jF1svst— Techmeme (@Techmeme) January 18, 2023
Oh shit! You’re right. For some reason I got Microsoft in my head. IBM never figured out how to monetize Watson. I think they did some layoffs due to that recently (like last few years).
Andy Slye is saying that Tesla is low-balling him on the trade-in value of his Model 3. His Model 3, purchased new five years ago, has "Full Self-Driving" (FSD), which is a software option that costs $15000. So the trade-in offer on the car for $19000 valued the physical car at $4000, because the FSD software doesn't degrade with use or deteriorate over time like the physical car does.
I don't know if there's a straightforward answer for this. It looks like it stays with the car if you sell your car to a new owner. It looks like it does not transfer to a new Tesla if you buy a new Tesla and trade in your old Tesla with FSD. It looks like if you sell your car back to Tesla as a trade-in, and Tesla sells the used car to someone else, they might disable FSD so they can get another FSD hit when selling the car again. I couldn't find any source directly from Tesla, just people who sold their Teslas with FSD and reported what happened to them. If I was Tesla, and therefore a greedy fascist oriented greenwashed corporation, I would say FSD is a license for that owner on that car, and if the owner sells the car in any way, FSD gets disabled - the new owner has to pay me if they want it back. It sounds like actual Tesla is being slightly nicer than the Tesla in my head.
The answer is... Yes. Haha. I'll explain further after the quote of Smurfquake. Tesla actually did this a handful of years ago with rapid charging, but the backlash was so severe that they backtracked and tied the it to the car, not to the person. Rapid charging was tied to the account initially, but Tesla didn't actually enforce it for years. As a result of this, people were not aware it was tied to the account (even though Tesla quite clearly said it was in the small print) and people (including dealers) were selling Teslas with those as features. For the longest time, this never came back to bite the people selling the cars, but then Tesla started to enforce it and, all of a sudden, people who thought they had rapid charging discovered they did not. Some of the new owners discovered this while on a long trip and all of a sudden their charges went from 20-30 min to an hour or more.