It's still a car. We need less cars, more trains, more busses. We have the technology now for this, no need to wait next quarter, next year, next decade.

You want autopilot? The bus/train has a driver. That's a good paying job union job for someone AND 20-80 people don't need to drive.

The compact will be designed entirely for high volume manufacturing and they are going to need a bunch of casting machines for it. They will need it to be in production by 2025 just to maintain their growth targets.

It's not happening this year, that's 100% certain. Next year will likely start production to maintain growth targets for 2025. They don't have a manufacturing location announced for it yet and may need to be built as it is.

I had a manager at Samsung who just looooooved to shit on his wife and kids. Daily jokes on how work is better than home. Had the dumbest look when many of us were like…we would rather be home with our families than staying overnight at the lab to test some new cell phones a week before release.

Probably starting production lines in the compact car next year. Maybe later this year, but seems doubtful.

For Tesla to continue their planned YOY growth of 50% through the decade, they will need to start manufacturing the compact car in in volume for 2025. This year it looks likely they could grow 50% with a little more production capacity. After that, they need growth on a compact car since the goal will be to sell more of those than all their other vehicles combined.

Cybertruck may have taken later than planned, but they only got the casting press a few months ago, and they had to build the factory in 2021 and ramped up model Y production last year. This year is now building the manufacturing line for the cybertruck, and they are still ramping internal battery production for the 4680 cells. It's not really very late based on those factors. The new roadster is late, but low priority.

Depends on the area, for hardwood floors I don't feel that way and I don't do full vacuuming because it catches everything I'd need

For carpet maybe, or dogs. I can't speak on

But I will say they are frustratingly hungry to munch up all the cords around my desk every time. That's annoying, especially because everything we have these days needs to be charged

It's already happened to a great degree

There's speculation that the reason why Trump and conservatives were let into power so much was because of their misplaced frustrations with automation coming from eg Amazon...

I feel like the more likely scenario is wars are going to happen, civil or otherwise, and nuclear\bio weapons are going to wipe us out instead

..if we don't destroy our water and food supply before then..

Sadly. It's a shame because automation and AI could be a golden age..

But the more likely scenario is that the elite will hoard the golden age like a bunch of greedy dragons

Yeah it's automating in pieces

The code I write does some things automatically and builds etc are automated, but it doesn't mean the entire thing is automated end to end

But it's more automated than it being fully manual

Bro where we’re going, we don’t need no stinkin solar panels, just an 1800s steam engine and a hunk of plutonium and you’re chillin till you get you solar panel factory line right

The most important thing we learn in school is how to learn what you don't know - how do I make a net to catch that particular fish in that river of information that's constantly moving. For example, when we learn about combustion in school, most people learn that fire needs an oxidant and fuel. Cool, that's accurate and useful - in my school they also taught us the phlogiston theory and by what experiments it was debunked - that's the other part of education, how to test your knowledge for accuracy instead of latching on to the factoids, how to supersede established knowledge. That's the critical thinking that we hear so much about...

q3 of 2022? started? we aren't going to see that car until 2025 lol

Hell, why would I keep the wife around if robots do the cleaning and cooking???

(KIDDING!!! I actually do most of the cooking, so why would my wife keep ME around???)

I’m so glad I pulled my Tesla roof deposit after 2 years of waiting.

….1.5 years ago. And they’re still not able to give a delivery date.

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Isn't this what they told people in the 60s?

When new tech comes about, people tend to look at its value and purpose in regards to their current problem set. What usually happens is the new tech provides new value that we couldn't fully grasp before it was available. And when we look back into the past, it's almost impossible for us to understand how people lived without it and how people must have been so different in the past.

I'm gonna go on a limb here and say that the highest value that AI will provide will be deeply personal and fulfilling relationships provided by a machine that has orders of magnitude more empathy and understanding of people than any one person could ever have. This AI will know exactly what people want, need, and how to give it to them. It won't be in the form of services but will in the form of our highest unfounded existential needs. It will consume everyone with love, knowledge, an understanding. People will say this is Satan, and others will say it's the universe converging to a god-mind. Either way, it will consume us and humanity will fade in a glorious decrescendo. All that will be left is a dormant AI machine, a metaphorical obelisk containing the essence of all humanity in its history, biology, mind, body, and spirit.

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I not saying it's a good idea, just that framing it as a contradiction because "you need solar panels for energy and you need energy for solar panels" isn't a true statement.

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I think nuclear powered bases will be the way to go...maybe forever.

But at the end of the week, you still have to supplement it with normal vacuuming.

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More like my house automatically sense the dirty factor of certain area and automatically sets up appointments for the correct contractor to fix it. Automating that task . Through automation.

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just send two nuclear batteries then...

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until we hear more about efficiency of such a setup, it's just a bunch of PR.

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I have no doubt such infrastructure is going to be needed in the future for the lunar base expansion and self-sufficiency for stuff like this in a couple of decades, but I seriously doubt it is going to be any efficient when setting up the base when this sounds like something that is going to take years/decades to pay off energy-wise.

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And if this was any efficient, we would have similar, but far more robust setups on Earth already, with solar panel farms dedicated to only create more solar panels basically out of thin air for zero cost outside of the initial setup, no?

It makes sense the government would have a vested interest in forcing a return to work. Commutes are what keep cities alive, commercially speaking.

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