Tesla Talk 2

That's a very good question, they seem to be updating their old models endlessly but must have something in the pipeline surely???🤔

I would love a 2 door tesla, no rear seat, decent range, smaller battery, good effeciency and easy to park and drive. Doesnt need to be fancy, get that for well under 25k and they will sell lots.

I'd say you enjoy the M3H a bit more though.

Keep an eye on the Aussie Tesla store. They could well be likely to get the RHD M3 Standard first due to their proximity to China, which could indicate the RHD versions are on their way to UK & Ireland.

In fact even Japan would be closer - but you would need to translate their site.

I’m surprised Tesla hasn’t launched a proper SUV, something to compete with the Tiguan or BYD Sealion. I think it would be a huge hit. I know the Y and X are technically SUV's but they arent really competing in that space of soccer moms who want something that sits higher on the road. A design along the lines of Toyota’s Land Cruiser concept or the XC40 would sell in huge numbers in europe. Seems crazy to me to release a cyber truck that wont get approval for europe when your vehicle line up is so small.

the good thing about the Y is that it covers a lot of segments, incl the Tiguan, and I guess you can still buy an X or the Cybertruck, in the US

Model Y more than covers the Tiguan or Sealion market. They know what they're doing.

After all the bad news with the UNECE stalling and throwing up obstacles for years now preventing FSD from being allowed in Europe. It seems Tesla has bypassed them and charmed the RDW directly with this outcome 😮

RDW does EU wide type approval / homologation

What does this mean in practice? Not sure yet, but it is likely that some or all EU FSD cars (likely only HW4 cars) will be allowed to use FSD at least in the Netherlands from February. Quite possibly followed by some or all other EU countries soon after

I believe the experience on the standard Autopilot is not relevant here. It uses some age old the legacy software, that is not even based on the FSD that will be employed if you buy the actual FSD upgrade.

Funny you mention lifts. Musk himself often uses lifts as an example. 100 years ago, lifts had lift boys operating them. But their behaviour was sometimes erratic, causing problems and fatal accidents. When automatic programs were developed that could operate lifts more safely and reliably, not only did people prefer to have automatic lifts, no, they demanded them

Obviously lifts in shafts are infinitely simpler systems than cars on roads. But the analogy is interesting

And of course even landing - the most dangerous part of a flight - has been done safer by computers rather than humans, for many decades. I'd agree with you that many people have no idea about this, hence the plebs clapping for the captain after a landing on holiday flights 😂