Comment by mdavid626

Comment by mdavid626 3 days ago

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Why is everyone freaking out? They won’t produce cars which don’t sell well. Model S and Model Y were rounding errors.

They won’t make 25k cars either. Very little margin on that.

Pivoting to consumer robots? Isn’t that cool?

sjsdaiuasgdia 3 days ago

> Pivoting to consumer robots? Isn’t that cool?

Has there been a single public video of an Optimus robot that isn't an embarrassment? Has there been a single public video of an Optimus robot performing a complex or precise task? No, scooping popcorn at the Tesla diner isn't a complex or precise task...it wasn't very good at that in the videos I saw either, and it seemed they only had it doing that job for a short amount of time. If we're that close to consumer robots, why isn't Tesla (or other Musk companies) increasingly using them internally? Seems like it'd be a great way to prove the potential while working through the kinks.

It'd be exciting if there was any actual detectable signal of a product worth buying.

Instead we have...this... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bk91DpkdPQY