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Title: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: taxi1990 on April 23, 2019, 01:38:55 pm
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48021380 (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48021380)



I hope he is as good at predictions as he is at picking women.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: C5 on April 23, 2019, 04:09:05 pm
He is talking out his hole, hasn't a clue about the taxi game especially with older people, putting their shopping in and bringing it to the front door, and down private roads that the google car can't go near. House moves, and there are people out there that cannot open the boot looking for the release on there knees before I have a chance to get out, I had one girl waving her foot under the back of the car wondering why the boot wouldn't open. And what about the devilment the young ones will get up to confusing the robot taxi leave a football at the front and a bike at the back and watch what happens.....nothing it will go to sleep and somebody will have to come out to retrieve it, it will be fun messing with them.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: watty on April 23, 2019, 05:49:07 pm
Not to mention a terrorist using a fake ID and sending a bomb in an autonomous taxi up to a military base or Govt offices  oops
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 23, 2019, 06:56:38 pm
Tesla cant deliver cars on time A tesla Taxi would need to be booked about six years in advance .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: The Liffey Lip on April 24, 2019, 08:51:01 am
Uber are way ahead when it comes to autonomous driving.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 24, 2019, 09:15:33 am
Really?first time I heard that.Uber is a side show IMO.They've started running tv ads on Uk telly to make it out they're safe.I wouldn't underestimate Musk as he's doing shit ten years ahead of all the other manufacturers.He's the only one building vehicles with the software that can be updated over the air AFAIK.So the base cars he sells can do all the autonomy stuff but just need to be enabled.

This car will be in Ireland in a few months for maybe 40k.It won't be like the vid but unlocking the software is only a matter of bribing the right ministers.

https://youtu.be/tlThdr3O5Qo
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Octavia1 on April 24, 2019, 09:33:59 am
Yea but Mr musk lives in the future....... That yoke won't last 30 seconds drivin thru darndale.... Can ya imagine that poor cuntin robot drivin back at nite up the n 32.... And the cream crackers runnin in front of it to stop it... And melting it down in a few hours gettin the copper out of it.....

The robot can't be trained in evasive driving... It can't be trained to recognise simian retro inbreds from the dark ages....

Maybe that's we'r well all end up.drivin to the kips .. Cause the robots be givin all the cream jobs to the airport wen elan and mytaxi go into partnership and the robots get all the ambassador jobs 30 seconds in advance and the former ambassador human scum be driving misses Joyce to the halting site from tesco clarehall.... And the the former ambassador be all wearin balaclavas like the new IRA  and out at nite sabotaging the robots....
Poor cnuts
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 24, 2019, 09:52:59 am
It starts off as a luxury vehicle feature then people start drink driving and allowing the car to bring them home.It's still a good bit away but I reckon statistically the robot taxi would be much safer than us.(I really mean yous. especially Bob.S..).They could always build them vandal proof like the Securicor vans and paint them pink.

Who would have thought Toyota would ever make their safety sense feature standard on all new models.Anything that can keep ya in lane or apply your brakes is semi robot already.They're just getting us used to the tech so them and Uber can worm their way in to being allowed to run them fully autonomous IMO.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: stonethecrows on April 24, 2019, 10:08:14 am
How would the Robot know/Cope with someone doing a puke in the back ?
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 24, 2019, 10:11:25 am
It would probably charge your credit card 250 notes at go back to the depot to be cleaned by some robot cleaner.

I dunno if this vid is interesting for yis but forward 2 mins in to see the juicy stuff inside the tesla that collects the data and video of yer driving.

https://youtu.be/Kv_y7J9ROxk
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 24, 2019, 11:33:11 am
Again this weekend the IT in the banks failed and a lot of ATMs didnt work .Imagine if the internet failed how would driverless cars work .Its all bollox .Boeing one of the biggest companies in the world couldnt get a simple piece of softwear to work just to stabalise a plane which moves in wide open space how the fuck will they get tec to work that keeps billions of cars moving at the same time .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 24, 2019, 11:39:12 am
Driverless motors don't need the net.Why do ya think they've got so many sensors.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: stonethecrows on April 24, 2019, 11:46:49 am
Driverless motors don't need the net.Why do ya think they've got so many sensors.
Would the sensors sense a creamer ?
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 24, 2019, 11:59:58 am
Personally I dont think they will happen .What we are hearing is noise trying to drum up sales of shares not cars .Tesla are heamoraging money never made a profit with their electric cars same for lyft and UBER what they sell is tradeable share cirtificates this is just the latest tech bubble .Great example are two year old horses about 500 of them are bread towin the big four races and head off to stud and make millions the rest get their balls cut off and jump fences or go to the dog food factory
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 24, 2019, 12:03:38 pm
This is a few years away.You won't be able to book a taxi without a credit card.When the robot taxi moisture detector noticed the piss stain on the seat they'll send your boss the video if ya complain or stick ya up on Facebook.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Shallowhal on April 24, 2019, 01:20:27 pm
Gonna miss the "you show,i go" signs on the dash...with the ID flat on the dash!!

Autonomous taxis in Dublin....that's funny!!
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Octavia1 on April 24, 2019, 01:51:18 pm
Ya know the way the cnuts do be havin it off in the back of yur taxi in Coolock as if yu wernt there?  well if there's no driver do ya think they be copulation in the back in the robot cars in Dublin 4 at 3 in the mornin?  Be cheaper than a bed an breakfast in Gardner st
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Octavia1 on April 24, 2019, 01:53:17 pm
The yokes will be full of discarded rubber johnnys an spunk stains all over the place
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on April 24, 2019, 01:55:44 pm
the whole thing reminds of when the germans invaded the soviet union.
buoyed by over confidence with their state of the art equipment and initial optimum weather and logistic situation.
guess what yiz cunts.
the roads are bogey, the weather will trap and bog down your panzers, there's partisans everywhere, waves of enemy conscripts and an endless supply of cheap T-34 tanks that will have you bankrupted trying to keep up with your over complicated expensive vehicles.
instead of having a fleet of their own robot cars your man Egon Must is talking about drafting in cunts who buy their own Tesla cars. they'll be like the weaker Axis forces of the Italians and Romanians who'll fucking bail out when the shit gets real.
tesla will have their Stalingrad sooner or later.
the whole failure will be known as Operation Carbarossa.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: silverbullet on April 24, 2019, 03:08:02 pm
the whole thing reminds of when the germans invaded the soviet union.
buoyed by over confidence with their state of the art equipment and initial optimum weather and logistic situation.
guess what yiz cunts.
the roads are bogey, the weather will trap and bog down your panzers, there's partisans everywhere, waves of enemy conscripts and an endless supply of cheap T-34 tanks that will have you bankrupted trying to keep up with your over complicated expensive vehicles.
instead of having a fleet of their own robot cars your man Egon Must is talking about drafting in cunts who buy their own Tesla cars. they'll be like the weaker Axis forces of the Italians and Romanians who'll fucking bail out when the shit gets real.
tesla will have their Stalingrad sooner or later.
the whole failure will be known as Operation Carbarossa.
Michael O'Leary prides himself on overcharging for batteries  on Xmas day.Funny dat.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on April 24, 2019, 03:40:38 pm
does leary drive his taxi himself or does he pay a wheel man.
mean bastard I'd say.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: taxi1990 on April 24, 2019, 05:55:29 pm
He probably does 5 euro fares, undercutting his competition. ;D
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Vikkiz on April 24, 2019, 09:52:17 pm
It’s ok, he said years ago that they’d be here by 2018. They ain’t,  hap can say what he likes to keep revenue flowing into his company. Twat
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: The Liffey Lip on April 25, 2019, 05:24:38 am
the whole thing reminds of when the germans invaded the soviet union.
buoyed by over confidence with their state of the art equipment and initial optimum weather and logistic situation.
guess what yiz cunts.
the roads are bogey, the weather will trap and bog down your panzers, there's partisans everywhere, waves of enemy conscripts and an endless supply of cheap T-34 tanks that will have you bankrupted trying to keep up with your over complicated expensive vehicles.
instead of having a fleet of their own robot cars your man Egon Must is talking about drafting in cunts who buy their own Tesla cars. they'll be like the weaker Axis forces of the Italians and Romanians who'll fucking bail out when the shit gets real.
tesla will have their Stalingrad sooner or later.
the whole failure will be known as Operation Carbarossa.

Probably, and even if not then we'll all be dead anyway. The smallest of microbes always fucks up the toughest of organisms.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Belker on April 25, 2019, 08:46:11 am
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48021380 (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48021380)

I hope he is as good at predictions as he is at picking women.
Elon Musk, 'Draft Dodger' fer a start or at least he left his hometown Pretoria, South Africa to avoid compulsory Military service as a young man. 'COWARD' !
The last I heard of him was when he took on one of the diving experts on Twitter last year when the diving expert trying to evacuate the Thai schoolboys from the water filled cave refused his help, he got the Hump and attacker the expert diver verbally on Twitter. "MUPPET" !.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 25, 2019, 09:09:43 am
Yis are taking this personal.He's a brainy oddball and does interesting shit whether ya like the man or not.There are kids leaving school right now being told robot cars are happening.They won't resist and most of us on here will be retired or too feeble and disinterested to protest.

The tech companies like Apple/Google have enough money to pay us all off.They've also enough funds to change the road network and layout to make it much safer for the robot cars to operate.As soon as they can provide accurate statistics that show thry are actually safer than us we're done.That applies to all driving not just us hungry gits.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Belker on April 25, 2019, 09:29:14 am
Let 'em at it, I drive an 08 at the moment with a Fifteen year licence but I plan to trade up 'New' in 2022.2.
That gets me another Ten years on the road, by 2032.2 I plan to be Dead !
Let 'em at it !
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: taxi1990 on April 25, 2019, 10:14:20 am
Self driving cars are at least a decade away or probably more, im not too worried about them but you have to have a plan b ready in this game anyway as its so volatile. We all need to be planning our next business.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 25, 2019, 10:15:33 am
Bedsit V Car .Big Dommohad a bedsit in Grovenor Square rent was £11.It was a right of passage in the 70s tomove out get a bedsit so you could bring your bird home for a ride if you had a bird .Years later the Bedsit was replaced with a car ,live in your Mas get fed and your gear washed and if you wanted your hole you done your bird in the car or drove to a bNb or cheap hotel .The car was your freedom .And Freedom is the reason most Kids will reject all this computerised internet of things .You are being tracked everywhere and everything is being recorded .The irony is the internet will be used to kill the internet as conspiricy theorists start to fight back against the machine .I asked a girl one night how much money she earns every week She told me and I asked does your boss pay you in 20s or 50s ?she sais no its paid into the bank .Whats paid into the bank I asked ? So I said you have never earned money for work what you get is tradeable points .It was a Metaxi job and she was going to transfer some of her transfarable  credits into my transferable credit account .If she wanted Cash she had to trade some of those transferable credits into cash at an ATM .With all the transferable credits being used to purchase things I sometimes think we are all players in a video game picking up points for compleating tasks and swapping them points for stuff .To much control and sooner rather than later the internet of things will replace Global Warming as the biggest danger to humanity .Google ,Facebook Instagram,Pay Pal are playing God setting the agenda for Life in the Future .Terrorist attacks on internet infrastructure will be the next big terror .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: stonethecrows on April 25, 2019, 10:20:29 am
Bedsit V Car .Big Dommohad a bedsit in Grovenor Square rent was £11.It was a right of passage in the 70s tomove out get a bedsit so you could bring your bird home for a ride if you had a bird .Years later the Bedsit was replaced with a car ,live in your Mas get fed and your gear washed and if you wanted your hole you done your bird in the car or drove to a bNb or cheap hotel .The car was your freedom .And Freedom is the reason most Kids will reject all this computerised internet of things .You are being tracked everywhere and everything is being recorded .The irony is the internet will be used to kill the internet as conspiricy theorists start to fight back against the machine .I asked a girl one night how much money she earns every week She told me and I asked does your boss pay you in 20s or 50s ?she sais no its paid into the bank .Whats paid into the bank I asked ? So I said you have never earned money for work what you get is tradeable points .It was a Metaxi job and she was going to transfer some of her transfarable  credits into my transferable credit account .If she wanted Cash she had to trade some of those transferable credits into cash at an ATM .With all the transferable credits being used to purchase things I sometimes think we are all players in a video game picking up points for compleating tasks and swapping them points for stuff .To much control and sooner rather than later the internet of things will replace Global Warming as the biggest danger to humanity .Google ,Facebook Instagram,Pay Pal are playing God setting the agenda for Life in the Future .Terrorist attacks on internet infrastructure will be the next big terror .
I've said if before "Control the Internet and you control the World".

More than likely be the cause of the next WW
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 25, 2019, 10:33:56 am
Think I posted this before .In the early 80s a Pal of mine became a Born Again Christian .His bird thought he was playing away so she asked me to go with him .It was a Gaff in Balgaddy the deal was whoevers house the meeting was held in chose the bit from the bible .Now remember this was the 80s no credit cards or Mobile phones for the plebs .The Preacher opened by saying .In the beginning there was the word and the word was God .He interpreted this as meaning only by talking can we get to the truth .Then he read another bit of the Gospel and said .The number of the beast shal be 666 he then warned the Devil deals in numbers because you can use many different numbers to get to the same answer unlike words which must make sense to get to the answer .He then went on to give an example of how these numbers would work and the example he gave was You will become a number PRSI no and you will have to use that number for everything and lets say you are playing away you get in your car you buy fuel based on how far you travel and how much fuel you use the Devil will know if you diverted from your so called destination.I remember thinking Fucking Nut Job but as he said The Word represents God Numbers represent the Devil In the 80s if you were dealing with government you gave your name DOD mothere maiden name and the girl on the counter looked through a filing cabinet and found your file .Now you give your PPs number for everything .When we go cashless then exactly what the Preacher was interpreting the bible to mean wiill have come to pass .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Cool Boola on April 25, 2019, 10:44:26 am
Glass not half empty

(https://i.postimg.cc/XBCWkrVV/IMG-20190222-182812.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/XBCWkrVV)
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: stonethecrows on April 25, 2019, 10:57:45 am
Think I posted this before .In the early 80s a Pal of mine became a Born Again Christian .His bird thought he was playing away so she asked me to go with him .It was a Gaff in Balgaddy the deal was whoevers house the meeting was held in chose the bit from the bible .Now remember this was the 80s no credit cards or Mobile phones for the plebs .The Preacher opened by saying .In the beginning there was the word and the word was God .He interpreted this as meaning only by talking can we get to the truth .Then he read another bit of the Gospel and said .The number of the beast shal be 666 he then warned the Devil deals in numbers because you can use many different numbers to get to the same answer unlike words which must make sense to get to the answer .He then went on to give an example of how these numbers would work and the example he gave was You will become a number PRSI no and you will have to use that number for everything and lets say you are playing away you get in your car you buy fuel based on how far you travel and how much fuel you use the Devil will know if you diverted from your so called destination.I remember thinking Fucking Nut Job but as he said The Word represents God Numbers represent the Devil In the 80s if you were dealing with government you gave your name DOD mothere maiden name and the girl on the counter looked through a filing cabinet and found your file .Now you give your PPs number for everything .When we go cashless then exactly what the Preacher was interpreting the bible to mean wiill have come to pass .
Fckn Devil must be an accountant  lol
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 25, 2019, 11:22:33 am
I skimmed through this video yesterday.It's really long but only gets going at 1hour 50 mins.

They say their autopilot has covered 70 million miles.That's real cars on the road now.They pull information off the customer's cars including video and pictures to teach the robot brain how to behave using fancy algorithms to recognise new things.It's really smart shit.So the Teslas are the trojan horse that collect the data to make the robot car drive better in the future.


https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE


And 3 hours in he explains when and how it might happen.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 25, 2019, 12:13:32 pm
Flaw iscars must be programmed not to kill so Bang Bang or Forty Coats or Mad Mary will just walk out in front of them car has to stop .Might work is Saudi or some Despotic State but Paddy will play with the traffic just for the hell of it .A lot of the tec willbe fitted to traditional cars to prevent crashes control speed .Big oil wont let it happen .My personal view is like Video recorders they will be invented used for a while then abandoned .They solve a problem that dosent exist .We have driverless we call them busses ,trains ,Taxies
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: stonethecrows on April 25, 2019, 12:22:26 pm
Flaw iscars must be programmed not to kill so Bang Bang or Forty Coats or Mad Mary will just walk out in front of them car has to stop .Might work is Saudi or some Despotic State but Paddy will play with the traffic just for the hell of it .A lot of the tec willbe fitted to traditional cars to prevent crashes control speed .Big oil wont let it happen .My personal view is like Video recorders they will be invented used for a while then abandoned .They solve a problem that dosent exist .We have driverless we call them busses ,trains ,Taxies
JM I'm sure our Insurance scammers will have a field day
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 25, 2019, 12:26:56 pm
If Mad Mary walks out in front of yer taxi you're supposed to brake.The video evidence will decide whether you were speeding and braked quickly enough or whether Mary deserved to go to the mortuary.RIP Mary..

The cost of taxis,train,truck drivers are still relatively high.The college graduates don't wanna see us lads making more coin for minimum skills than they get for going to school all them years.

In their minds 35 euro to get to the airport from Lucan is too much money.The efficiencies of the robo taxi will get them there for a tenner.Few years away but the yanks will allow them in some states. Remember Tesla is a US company and their traditional cars manufacturers are dying off.Anyway I don't wanna see it but cost will cut the human meatbags out of the equation.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 25, 2019, 12:36:06 pm
Merc the fares will still be the same with the Car owners pocketing the profit .Why would they charge less .Sure 4 people on a bus from town to ballyer costs the same as 4 in a taxi .My personal view is Driverless ,UBER ,LIFT and many more IDEAS are just creating shares to be sold to the vunerable yank for his retirement portfolio .Tech bubble will go like the Dot.Com bubble .I read a report Lyft are being sued by investors for over estimating the amount of drivers and customers .Ponzi schemes most of them.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: taxi1990 on April 25, 2019, 01:00:19 pm
I agree with john, driverless cars might be introduced at some point but it will ultimately be a failure and something that will be looked back on as "why did we ever try to introduce it?"
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Shallowhal on April 25, 2019, 01:24:03 pm
Glass not half empty

(https://i.postimg.cc/XBCWkrVV/IMG-20190222-182812.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/XBCWkrVV)

Glass not bleedin half full either...ye bleedin dipso!!
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: stonethecrows on April 25, 2019, 02:06:46 pm
I agree with john, driverless cars might be introduced at some point but it will ultimately be a failure and something that will be looked back on as "why did we ever try to introduce it?"
Hopefully not after too many Coffin Jobs
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: watty on April 25, 2019, 04:18:22 pm
Elon Musk thinks we're living in a computer simulation - https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11837874/elon-musk-says-odds-living-in-simulation (https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11837874/elon-musk-says-odds-living-in-simulation)

Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Octavia1 on April 25, 2019, 05:55:51 pm
Apparently the cnut smokes that cannabis shite that puts ya into an alternative reality( makes ya a fukin nut case) ....wonder wer he gets the motivation tho.... Anyone I know who smokes it are on the dole an sleep 18 hours a day...
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on April 25, 2019, 06:22:45 pm
have ye ever watched any of David Icke's videos on youtube.
some of the stuff is so mad it's brilliant.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: watty on April 25, 2019, 06:52:23 pm
Tesla joins Uber in losing $700 million in 3 months... 

Tesla lost $702 million last quarter after drop in Model 3 deliveries (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/24/18514427/tesla-q1-2019-loss-model-3-elon-musk-earnings)

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Tesla lost $702 million in the first quarter of 2019, after posting back-to-back profits for the first time ever to finish out 2018, the company announced in an official filing Wednesday. CEO Elon Musk had predicted Tesla would slide back into the red on a February 28th call with the media. Telsa generated $4.5 billion in revenue for the quarter, which is down from $7.2 billion in the previous quarter, but up from $2.6 billion in the first quarter of 2018.

The company also announced it doesn’t expect to turn a profit in the second quarter, either. Musk had previously guessed that Tesla would return to profitability for good starting this quarter. The $702 million loss was the company’s fourth-worst quarterly loss since it became publicly traded in 2010.

“Everyone expected a Q1 loss for Tesla, but nobody expected it to be this big,” Karl Brauer, the executive publisher at Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader, said in a statement.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Octavia1 on April 25, 2019, 08:55:39 pm
Tesla joins Uber in losing $700 million in 3 months... 

Tesla lost $702 million last quarter after drop in Model 3 deliveries (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/24/18514427/tesla-q1-2019-loss-model-3-elon-musk-earnings)

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Tesla lost $702 million in the first quarter of 2019, after posting back-to-back profits for the first time ever to finish out 2018, the company announced in an official filing Wednesday. CEO Elon Musk had predicted Tesla would slide back into the red on a February 28th call with the media. Telsa generated $4.5 billion in revenue for the quarter, which is down from $7.2 billion in the previous quarter, but up from $2.6 billion in the first quarter of 2018.

The company also announced it doesn’t expect to turn a profit in the second quarter, either. Musk had previously guessed that Tesla would return to profitability for good starting this quarter. The $702 million loss was the company’s fourth-worst quarterly loss since it became publicly traded in 2010.

“Everyone expected a Q1 loss for Tesla, but nobody expected it to be this big,” Karl Brauer, the executive publisher at Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader, said in a statement.

Me client I was tellin ya about said he laying off 10 % of his staff said since Christmas his  manufacturin car  tooling business is on the brink of collapse....  nobody is buying fuk all in the last 3 months......
Uber probably will do well cause they cheaper than a taxi an the blokes that drive for uber are chimp like and don't understand they workin for nuttin wages an been used as slaves....
Poor cnuts
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 26, 2019, 07:35:52 am
Uber /Lynk/Tesla /Spotify/Snap / ALL exist to generate shares their business is selling shares not making money .All of these shares sort of work like .You plant an acorn that can grow into a great oak tree and that oak tree will then be turned into a nice piece of expensive furniture .So when they price the shares they reach that valuation based on the sale of the furniture in the future but what they really offer is Acorns .Some of the Acorns will grow and furniture will be made but most of the Acorns wont germanate and you lose your investment .If you think about it Tesla have sold hundreds of Millions more shares than cars .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 26, 2019, 10:51:05 am
I think yis might take Tesla more seriously when the 35/40k model 3 starts appearing on our roads everywhere instead of the Audis, beemers and Mercs.These cars will be eligible for the grants so ya might see a few taxi drivers buying them(maybe I'll buy one).All collecting data and video for the Autobot program.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 26, 2019, 11:07:22 am
This is my taking on Electric cars and why they will never take over .First Big Oil the American economy is based on Oil .The rare earths needed to build the Battery cells are controled by China so until China starts to build and export electric cars they are not viable and America wont and Europe wont regulate fossilfueled vehicles off the road .We might see laws to force busses and taxies and other vehicles owned or operated by the state going Battery just to keep the Hippy Mung Bean munching Sandal Wearing Tree Huggers off their backs .Tesla have failed to deliver the more expensive cars so why would they be any better at producing cheaper ones .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 26, 2019, 11:12:23 am
They're delivering the promised 35k model right now in the US.But there a base Corrolla costs only 19k so and fuel is still a quarter of what we pay.I've had passengers in the taxi who paid deposits ages ago.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 26, 2019, 11:20:37 am
They're delivering the promised 35k model right now in the US.But there a base Corrolla costs only 19k so and fuel is still a quarter of what we pay.I've had passengers in the taxi who paid deposits ages ago.


You say they are delivering but then you say deposits paid AGES AGO .Tesla cannot deliver thats the problem .They are collecting deposits on a promise to finance their day to day costs .Yearsago bookies would offer big odds on the Premier League to win market at the start of the season and they would then have your stake money for 9 months before they needed to pay the winners .Tesla are delivering less than 30% of what they promise .They are a Ponzy schems just there to sell shares not cars ,.Look at their share price in a booming US market their share price has dropped from 350 to 250 over 4 months   https://www.google.ie/search?source=hp&ei=gNvCXOPMC96c1fAPnvq9sAo&q=tesla+share+price+history&oq=tesla+share+price&gs_l=psy-ab.1.2.0i131i70i250j0l9.2943.9651..15521...0.0..0.275.1603.11j5j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131.omYsceaOAnk (https://www.google.ie/search?source=hp&ei=gNvCXOPMC96c1fAPnvq9sAo&q=tesla+share+price+history&oq=tesla+share+price&gs_l=psy-ab.1.2.0i131i70i250j0l9.2943.9651..15521...0.0..0.275.1603.11j5j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131.omYsceaOAnk)  .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on April 26, 2019, 12:29:56 pm
There are enough saps who adore Tesla to make them successful.I don't pay any attention to the hype.The fact is they're putting cars on our roads that many people want to buy that are better than existing manufacturers offerings.Who knows maybe they'll be bought by Daimler, VW,Ford or Apple.They already take parts from the Mercedes parts bin to build their cars.Could go any way.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on April 26, 2019, 12:40:17 pm
Musk is the new Barnam he is a showman best salesman in the world .Loved when he said he had arab investors willing to buy the whole company .Why would somebody who makes their money selling oil want to promote the competition .PS he was spoofing .Think his latest scheme is selling one way trips to Mars .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Octavia1 on April 26, 2019, 02:14:10 pm
The  germanys economy is based on car(diesel) exports... Seen as they 20 years behind the rest of the world in car technology....Germany is fuked.... Ide say the Italian be next to jump the European ship and then the Spanish and French and then all the rest.... Only Ireland be left cause it's run by midgets,teachers, and radical homosexuals
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: silverbullet on April 26, 2019, 08:04:13 pm
TESLA an anagram of STEAL

https://interestingengineering.com/a-tesla-model-3-produces-more-co2-than-a-diesel-car-says-new-study
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Cool Boola on April 26, 2019, 09:32:51 pm
Them Tesla cars look effin.... great.Just sawer uno of them pissing me bye on the Tallaght bypass...Bombing it was..... I want ubo of them with the big T on the back of it and it roaring along...
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Shallowhal on April 27, 2019, 01:29:12 pm
Were ye on the sauce there Cool?
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: silverbullet on April 27, 2019, 05:04:12 pm
ExtremeTech: Tesla May Offer Its Own (Nosy) Car Insurance.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/290258-tesla-may-offer-its-own-nosy-car-insurance?source=opera (https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/290258-tesla-may-offer-its-own-nosy-car-insurance?source=opera)
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Belker on April 28, 2019, 11:40:17 am
Them Tesla cars look effin.... great.Just sawer uno of them pissing me bye on the Tallaght bypass...Bombing it was..... I want ubo of them with the big T on the back of it and it roaring along...
It's all Great, Looking good 'n all that, I used to see all the Boy-racers jumping all over town, being smooth and Cool as de Gang as all.
But when they got out on the Link roads by night against a D4 Fookin D Toyota Avensis 2 Litre Turbo Injection, then things never went their way ! EVER !!
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: silverbullet on April 28, 2019, 02:17:21 pm
My old Toyota Abortion Diesel was around 13 seconds, no contest:
https://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-s/2017/2017-tesla-model-s-p100d-first-test-review/ (https://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-s/2017/2017-tesla-model-s-p100d-first-test-review/)
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on May 07, 2019, 05:55:24 pm
We're doomed.
https://youtu.be/3-KOG8ZlkDk
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on May 07, 2019, 06:05:45 pm
Tech me bollox couldnt get a euro into the shopping trollet in Tesco because someone got 20c coin stuck in it .Manager put a cone in front of the line of trollies said they were stuck .SoI said why dont you put a coin into the second one and remove the first two  and free up the rest of the trollies .If people cant put a coin in a slot or solve a simple problen how the fuck will they cope with staying awake in their driverless cars .
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Belker on May 07, 2019, 06:13:38 pm
Can ya go out on the gargle in your driverless car and get it to drive you home ?
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on May 07, 2019, 06:15:48 pm
Tech me bollox couldnt get a euro into the shopping trollet in Tesco because someone got 20c coin stuck in it .Manager put a cone in front of the line of trollies said they were stuck .SoI said why dont you put a coin into the second one and remove the first two  and free up the rest of the trollies .If people cant put a coin in a slot or solve a simple problen how the fuck will they cope with staying awake in their driverless cars .
laffin.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on May 07, 2019, 06:16:12 pm
We get our shopping delivered as I don't wanna do anymore (trolley) driving than I have to.Costs a few quid but you'll never get them hours walking around Tesco back.In the future they'll just have the trolley drive around to yer gaff autonomously..
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on May 07, 2019, 06:26:36 pm
But the time you have to wait inon the delivery is wasted you could of being scratching yourself or doing nothing but now you have to waste time waiting alert for a knock on the door or the ring of a bell ....stressfull time
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on May 07, 2019, 06:32:04 pm
Me mate worked for them.He says there's no proper route planning.They send the drivers different parts of the city all the time so they rarely get to know places very well.If they were smart they could keep them in one postcode and speed up the delivery times.Must be losing a fortune on the service.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: john m on May 07, 2019, 06:42:45 pm
What sort of coin is in delivering packages to gaffs .Last few deliveries came in Enterprise rented vans .Must pay well if you can afford to rent a van or else they cant get couriers and employ the drivers direct ?
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: mercenary for hire on May 07, 2019, 06:46:27 pm
I never done it in a van but I'd say it's like our job.Work more and get more money.Except the van driver doesn't have vehicle age restrictions and all the hoops we have to jump through.

Some might be on flat daily rate rather than pay per job.Like everything if you're any good you'll do ok.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Belker on May 07, 2019, 06:51:40 pm
What sort of coin is in delivering packages to gaffs .Last few deliveries came in Enterprise rented vans .Must pay well if you can afford to rent a van or else they cant get couriers and employ the drivers direct ?
I often wonder about that as I often get small nicks and knacks fer a Euro or so delivered free from China.
Fer example my car air vent phone holder cost about a Euro with free delivery, how can that be ?
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on May 07, 2019, 07:38:35 pm
is there any way to check on the old trade statistics tab to see how many electric taxis there are.
just as a matter of interest.
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Belker on May 07, 2019, 11:08:36 pm
is there any way to check on the old trade statistics tab to see how many electric taxis there are.
just as a matter of interest.
I had a suitability test yesterday in Cork and asked the inspector that same question, he replied; "Very Few".
Title: Re: Tesla's Elon Musk expects 'robotaxis' to start in US next year
Post by: Rat Catcher on May 08, 2019, 08:01:09 pm
is there any way to check on the old trade statistics tab to see how many electric taxis there are.
just as a matter of interest.

Yes.