By now in 2023, it’s just plain disingenuous to claim that Musk and his teams at Tesla aren’t innovating to the max.
Model Y is the globally top selling car of any sort right now. Even after price cuts they have the top profit margins in the industry. And it’s the most efficient user of electricity — and thus greenest and cheapest to operate — compared to all other EV SUVs by far. And the safest.
Plus Musk just live demoed a highly gutsy and impressive AI breakthrough: FSD driving streamed live for 45 minutes, travelling to semi-random real-life locations all over San Francisco, based 100% on neural network training. No hard coding. No labels on what is a person, a car, a traffic light. Camera only.
And the (planned to be cheaper than a car) Optimus bot is learning tasks via neural nets, no hard-coded rules. And is moving as smooth as silk now.
All game-changing.
Musk-factor?
Sometimes Musk is, I hate to admit it, a complete jerk, especially if you’re left-leaning, (as I am, actually ‘community-minded centrist’ is my preferred label for the record) and even intrinsically.
Ether way, he’s at best incredibly unwise.
But to base your Tesla thinking on Musk’s politics about cultural issues? Really?
That ignores all the hard work he and tens of thousands of researchers and workers at Tesla have accomplished.