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by DoesntMatter22 282 days ago
Windows 95 is comically easy compared to most of the stuff that Tesla does.

|People care about how a company can improve their life and despite all the fanfare, Tesla Motors have produced very little improvment through its history,

This is just objectively not true. They produce some of the safest cars in the world, and have the best selling car in the world. Obviously those same people you are talking about disagree with you.

Tesla was founded in 2003, not 2002. Regardless they are still a startup compared to all the other US car manufacturers. Regardless though Tesla has done amazingly well, been very profitable while others are suffering, and despite major cap-ex are able to still make a profit.

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> > Windows 95 is comically easy compared to most of the stuff that Tesla does.

Many would not agree but whatever , it was a paradigm shift that changed the world and improved the quality of life of billions of people.

The point of companies is to improve the quality of life of people, not pursue stuff that is hard for virtuoso technical bragging rights. That is something that theoretical physicists do. Actually if something is a low hanging fruit that can improve the quality of life of billions of people that should be pursured not the virtuoso technical mastership for the sake of technical virtuosity

> > This is just objectively not true. They produce some of the safest cars in the world, and have the best selling car in the world. Obviously those same people you are talking about disagree with you.

Put a car from 2003 and a Tesla from 2025 next to each other and they are 99.999% the same. As a matter of fact Tesla can't do many things that a 2003 car can do.

This test for example a Tesla would fail miserably : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRbV4pIdyc

This is the folly of people who think that a product which is 200 year old like the automobile can be revolutionized just because you can convince a bunch of loonies that it became a "tech company"

You are over here comparing a start button to manufacturing cars lol. Nobody who has programmed professionally would compare them.

You are really off your rocker. Automobile's are 200 years old? They started in 1825? Nothing you say makes any sense.

And you are fixating on technical prowness for technical prowness' sake.

If a start button can improve the life of billions then it should be pursued.

There are many thousands of "start button" alike solution which would improve the life of billions but the capital and the man hours are tied into fixations which are impossible or perpetually 20 years in the future.

We've already shown a ton of things Tesla improves lives on. musks human life improvement is higher than anyone on earth today
> > musks human life improvement is higher than anyone on earth today

What a religious comment.

Name someone doing more. Please do