Yeah. Good programmers are actually getting more expensive though....
...the absolute best programmers have often gone off and made more money doing investing, you see. :-(
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...the absolute best programmers have often gone off and made more money doing investing, you see. :-(
Probably not tunnels before mass transit reaches a station near the factory:
Warm Springs Extension Project Overview | bart.gov
Going fromL3 to L4 may require better chips and software. But the difference between L4 and L5 is all about driving in inclement weather. I only have a old Model S, pre-autopilot, so I have no experience at all about what the forward-looking camera can see, but I can tell you that the rear camera gets completely USELESS in bad weather due to slush / mud totally obscuring its view. I always drive wit the camera displayed on my main screen to supplement the mirror's narrow field of view. I can tell you there will never be any software solution / better chip that will let you drive in a bad winter day until they come up with a solution to prevent the camera being clogged up.
It may require a hydrophobic nano-coating or micro-wipers to keep it clean. I do not know what solution would work, but I am absolutely sure the current setup / hardware will NOT work for L5 due to ZERO visibility through the camera in bad weather.
SunCatcher
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When Alien Dreadnaught takes the stage, there will be little need for getting people to the factory. Remember this image of the proposed finished look of the Gigafactory? Not much parking for such a monstrous factory and the world's largest building...
dc_h
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Interns are likely college students on track for professional roles at Tesla. To get good students at the local tops schools, they have to compete with Google\Apple\FB, etc.
dc_h
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Huge agree. It is not that hourly costs would hurt, it would be job rules. Illinois road construction still pays for greasers, who are responsible for greasing 1950's era heavy hydraulic machinery. I am not against unions, but when logical job protection makes it difficult to impossible to adapt to new technology and business processes. The UAW has become more flexible, but the rapid pace of change Elon imagines over the next decade is not consistent with UAW control process.
mmd
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The first picture could also mean poor planning and an utopian dream. The plan , when that picture was presented, was to employ 6500 people when the factory is complete, just for batteries. The second picture is now only about 600-800 cars. The Nevada incentives depend on the employment number.When Alien Dreadnaught takes the stage, there will be little need for getting people to the factory. Remember this image of the proposed finished look of the Gigafactory? Not much parking for such a monstrous factory and the world's largest building...
Edit: Good recent flyover of Gigafactory.
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"Craft restrictions" are no good, they prevent adaptation to new technology and new customer situations, and any modern union contract should not have them. Some of the worst union contracts in the country are due to craft restrictions where different crafts are represented by *different unions*; this has been an ongoing problem in the freight railroads.
Industrial unions organized on a whole-workplace basis like the original CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), as opposed to "craft unions" organized on a type-of-trade basis like the original AFL (American Federation of Labor), were actually supposed to get rid of craft restrictions, so it's very backwards to have craft restrictions.
Industrial unions organized on a whole-workplace basis like the original CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), as opposed to "craft unions" organized on a type-of-trade basis like the original AFL (American Federation of Labor), were actually supposed to get rid of craft restrictions, so it's very backwards to have craft restrictions.
DragonWatch
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This may have been covered previously, if so I apologize up front. Bottom line: California is missing out on a golden opportunity to make money off visitors from out of the area by not charging California state tax on all cars at point of pick up from the Fremont plant. Tesla car production plant is for a lot of us buyers a must see, for me, more so than Disneyland. What about picking up the car without paying California licensing fee, and let the new owner travel to Disneyland, visit friends and family B4 heading home to Timbuck Two and pay their own state licensing fees and obtain their own vanity plate. They could stop in Sacramento, pan for gold, strike it lucky and pay for their MS, MX or M3. 
That is a win ~ win for new owners, and local/state businesses ~ not to mention spreading the money out a bit.
Back in the day, Volvo encouraged this by including travel (taxis, train and boat ~ boat w/car on return). We picked up our first Volvo this way and I blew the second trip off thinking I was too mission critical. What a fool. Bottom line here is that we enjoyed our trip without the kids, stayed in the town where the pied piper of Hamelin originated and a castle enroute to Baumholder, Germany. Did I say this was for European buyers? Okay, it was
In between the first Volvo and second I was stationed at CSULB (Cal State U, Long Beach) as a Professor of Military Science. When we were ready to return to Germany I went through a nut roll trying to purchase a new American made car and ship it without paying California state sales tax. We gave up ~ too time consuming ~ ended up buying one of the first off the line Volvo 960 sedans, our second Volvo. Yes, I did 125 mph on the autobahn B4 my wife told me to slow down
California wake up smell the latte' and encourage visitors to your state. Tesla could help by not charging a destination fee out of the plant too If I am wrong about the destination fee, feel free to enlighten me
That is a win ~ win for new owners, and local/state businesses ~ not to mention spreading the money out a bit.Back in the day, Volvo encouraged this by including travel (taxis, train and boat ~ boat w/car on return). We picked up our first Volvo this way and I blew the second trip off thinking I was too mission critical. What a fool. Bottom line here is that we enjoyed our trip without the kids, stayed in the town where the pied piper of Hamelin originated and a castle enroute to Baumholder, Germany. Did I say this was for European buyers? Okay, it was
In between the first Volvo and second I was stationed at CSULB (Cal State U, Long Beach) as a Professor of Military Science. When we were ready to return to Germany I went through a nut roll trying to purchase a new American made car and ship it without paying California state sales tax. We gave up ~ too time consuming ~ ended up buying one of the first off the line Volvo 960 sedans, our second Volvo. Yes, I did 125 mph on the autobahn B4 my wife told me to slow down
California wake up smell the latte' and encourage visitors to your state. Tesla could help by not charging a destination fee out of the plant too
If I am wrong about the destination fee, feel free to enlighten meThis may have been covered previously, if so I apologize up front. Bottom line: California is missing out on a golden opportunity to make money off visitors from out of the area by not charging California state tax on all cars at point of pick up from the Fremont plant. Tesla car production plant is for a lot of us buyers a must see, for me, more so than Disneyland. What about picking up the car without paying California licensing fee, and let the new owner travel to Disneyland, visit friends and family B4 heading home to Timbuck Two and pay their own state licensing fees and obtain their own vanity plate. They could stop in Sacramento, pan for gold, strike it lucky and pay for their MS, MX or M3.
Back in the day, Volvo encouraged this by including travel (taxis, train and boat ~ boat w/car on return). We picked up our first Volvo this way and I blew the second trip off thinking I was too mission critical. What a fool. Bottom line here is that we enjoyed our trip without the kids, stayed in the town where the pied piper of Hamelin originated and a castle enroute to Baumholder, Germany. Did I say this was for European buyers? Okay, it was
In between the first Volvo and second I was stationed at CSULB (Cal State U, Long Beach) as a Professor of Military Science. When we were ready to return to Germany I went through a nut roll trying to purchase a new American made car and ship it without paying California state sales tax. We gave up ~ too time consuming ~ ended up buying one of the first off the line Volvo 960 sedans, our second Volvo. Yes, I did 125 mph on the autobahn B4 my wife told me to slow down
California wake up smell the latte' and encourage visitors to your state. Tesla could help by not charging a destination fee out of the plant too
There was a bill for this going through legislation last year but it was hijacked and amended to somehow become a completely different bill: Tesla tourism bill pulled for Santa Clara development – The Mercury News
Following a link off of this Uber link, I learned about 'Cassie', the latest bipedal robot, at this one:
This two-legged robot hopes to one day deliver packages to your front door
So, we already know the two million or so truck drivers employed in U.S. will be layed off in the next 5 - 10 years.
Now it looks like UPS and USPS delivery people will not be far behind. It’s looking more and more certain that soon most non and medium skilled working people are going to wish they were far enough along in their lives to retire before the deck beneath them collapses entirely.
I suspect we'd better plan to bring our personal security droids along with us on shopping trips after 2025.
Those in their 30s to 50s may well harbor resentment against those of us who made it to retirement before the collapse.
Any doubts there are already military brass asking those nice folks at Starship Technologies how soon they
can scale Cassie up to size needed to carry weapons? Then they can rename the company Starship Trooper Technologies!
MitchJi
Trying to learn kindness, patience & forgiveness
Elon said no MS-MX with gt 100 kWh packs. Translation, the 2170 cells will not be coming soon to the MS-MX, because packs with the same number of 2170 cells will have 7.5% more capacity.
Why couldn't they make a 100kWh S/X pack with fewer 2170s? It would be lighter which would give you more range and likely cost less. (A lot less for Canadians as that should bring the NA content level high enough to avoid some of the NAFTA taxes.)
jesselivenomore
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This is the second time I've seen you say this. No offense, but how do you expect to build a compelling short thesis when you can't even count?
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