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No, but cops in California will love to write you a ticket for the windshield tint.

Well, the government did have incentives for people and companies after WWII, and I'd argue they were larger and broader than the recent EV incentives. From the GI Bill to accelerated depreciation and other tax incentives, to even the Marshall Plan, which helped other countries out as they...

Unfortunately, the best move for automakers is to release the highest priced cars first. Here's a couple reasons: 1) Highest price is typically the highest profit, and Lucid can use the money. 2) Highest price typically has the lowest demand, and Lucid will need time to ramp up production.

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Unfortunately, as RJ Scaringe stated pretty clearly in the Kara Swisher interview, the Chinese companies have two advantages right from the start: 1) Much lower Capex costs. The government gives them land and buildings, and even the equipment is often paid for by the government. 2) Much lower...

Maybe I've been around too many building job sites, but white also strikes me as the color of work vans and trucks. For the Air, its shape makes that less of an issue, but Gravity is boxier, and so white remains my least favorite color for Gravity. About the only thing worse than white cars...

From your link: So, "exactly" isn't necessarily true. It's a "reference architecture," enabling OEMs to customize. Lucid could decide to use a different LiDAR vendor and/or add more sensors, or even subtract some. In the interview above, Winteroff talked about a 2029-2030 3/L4 timeframe, and by...

There are so many good and valid reasons to dislike or even hate Musk, it saddens me when people either mis-state the data or are missing the real data. There's no doubt that Elon's DOGE efforts were indeed a disgrace, and his efforts to reduce government spending when his companies benefit...

I went to a small entrepreneurial group gathering a year ago, where the speaker was Mercedes' CEO Ola Källenius. He specifically told us: "Our old paradigm for new technology was start at S Class and trickle down' now different - we're doing things first on the upcoming CLA."

Earth is supposed to be a mid-priced car, and throwing all those sensors, even at today's reduced prices compared to a few years ago, will add cost to the vehicle. Plus, Winterhoof says Earth has fewer parts than Model Y, so adding a bunch of cameras and a bunch of LiDARs is the other way. The...

Yes, but he was asked directly by Kim Java if the Nuro changes were coming to Gravity: MW: "The inside, we changed the compute unit from Nvidia Orin X to ... Nvidia Thor. KJ: "So, are any of those changes going into the customer-facing vehicles as well? MW: "No. We have a different path." And...

From what I've seen of the demos, Nvidia's AGX/Thor running Alhpamayo is close to FSD, but not yet at that level. So I don't have high hopes for the previous version of hardware to reach that level. There's also a question of what quality and number of cameras are in Gravity today, maybe even...

I sure hope that’s true, but I suspect not. Gravity doesn’t have the Nvidia hardware that the Mercedes CLA has. I think that Earth will get the Nvidia AGX system for L2. L4 requires the halo thingy. I could be wrong, though.

Note that Rivian looks to be doing the same - R2 will have more autonomous features than R1. We'll see how much they "back-port" to the higher end models. Lucid is likely in the same boat with Earth promised to have Nvidia integration for L2++ driving, and we'll have to see if Lucid redoes...

BTW, here's RJ Scaringe's take on moving downmarket (R2 way more important than R1), software-defined vehicles, and autonomy: Swisher will insert her Elon hate every chance she gets, but RJ is too smart to take the bait. That said, he has a very similar view to Musk, and I hope he's...

Right - because saying is the same as doing. Congrats on being first on my ignore list.

I keep waking my car up while at home connected to WiFi every couple of hours....but just the fob update so far.

I didn't say "abandoned Zeekr." I said: "tariffs on Chinese cars made those too expensive, so they pivoted to Hyundais." Here's an article on exactly that, saying in part: Here's a 7 month old article on what Waymo has to do to get around import tariffs as well as regulations on Chinese...

Waymo remains constrained by the vehicles available to them. Limited number of iPaces since Jag discontinued them, then they went for Zeekr. But, tariffs on Chinese cars made those too expensive, so they pivoted to Hyundais. They also knew they wanted to start slow since the cars are expensive...

Think about IBM moving away from mainframes. Better than DEC stick with midis and company folding. Think about Netflix moving away from DVD rentals. Better than Blockbuster. Think about Nintendo moving away from playing cards to video games. Tesla is moving from selling cars to selling...