What frustrates me is that Waymo is just robotaxi company that will either sell FSD to someone else, or have to pay money for a fleet and yet... I wish $TSLA were valued like a robotaxi company
$TSLA market cap ~$44B
Waymo worth $175B
Waymo is worth $100 billion more than previous estimates, Morgan Stanley says (GOOGL) | Markets Insider
10 cars, almost certainly with safety drivers. If they're restricted to the same geofence as Waymo One it's a joke.
To be slightly fair to the PTO, they generally don't have the funding to hire the necessary people to begin to understand which patents are ridiculous and which aren't, so they just keep rubber stamping them rather than denying them as it's safer for them to do that and let the courts sort it out, than to deny it and get into trouble themselves - they're just doing what they can with what they've been given. Ideally together with legislative fixes to the patent system and courts, we'd also better fund the PTO so it had the subject matter experts it needed.
So you think Elon wants Google or Apple to come in and gobble up all the shares not owned be Elon? Maybe enough to have seats on the board? Again, the idea that Tesla is for sale is silly. Elon is the poison pill. They won't do it without being asked in by Elon because Elon will leave and they wouldn't want that. He buys to maintain as much as possible to make hostile takeovers harder.
Domesticating the house cat was way harder, we have been working at that for 10k years and still aren't quite there.
Consider also though, Manhattan project and going to the Moon when computers could work only slightly faster than humans with pen and paper.
I doubt any of those private investors would pay for Waymo at that valuation. If Waymo ever goes public, I bet they'll happily sell at some fraction of that. Don't private companies also have much more lenient reporting/disclosure requirements?
Every government agency should be looking to reduce exposure to sea level rise. That being said, San Francisco is plenty hilly and will exist as a city (in somewhat truncated fashion) long after Manhattan disappears beneath the waves. Better yet, why not act decisively and prevent things from getting that bad? Enter Tesla, of course.
Haha, if you think it's okay to run into pinecones, you clearly haven't seen a Coulter cone such as we have around here. They're so big and heavy that people call them "widow makers".
Thanks on clarifying the safety required on cell suppliers. I was referring to cells used in energy products. Why not source cells outside Panasonic and ramp up Powerwall production? There was an article that states Tesla still only supplies ~10% of inquiries. We are talking about four years after unveiling the Powerwall product.
Does anyone know why Tesla doesn't put public fight to get a level-playing field in EV credits? Punishing US made cars is a good argument. A supporting argument is that no other countries cap EV credits based on the production number from an individual manufacturer. A level playing field is way more important for Tesla than having any EV credits. It was a very bad move when the Nevada senator forced republicans to keep the current EV credits in the Republican tax change. Ro Khanna, a new silicon valley congressman, is planning to change EV credits linked to production in USA. But there are probably little supports, given that the news was not reported by any major news organization.
