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Old 06-04-2019, 07:38 PM   #89 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
Perhaps Elon made the $50k comment assuming battery prices would continue to decrease rapidly. Achieving that price point requires a sufficiently affordable battery.
Since he grew up in South Africa, I wonder if he never heard the trite phrase about what happens when you assume? He assumes his engineers will figure out full self-driving with the existing camera hardware on Teslas and no lidar by, what, next year sometime? This year even? (I can't remember what BS date he gave the last time he talked about it).
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