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Tesla’s Cybercab For USA’s Dysfunction, Will Cause Congestion
Putting an awful lot more single passenger vehicles on US roads doing multiple trips per passenger journey will increase congestion
Let’s start out with the blunt reality that I didn’t bother to watch the Tesla reveal event in real-time, or even consider watching the event. Tesla reveal parties stopped being particularly relevant a few years ago. The Tesla Semi reveal was the last one of any significance from my perspective. Musk’s descent into Ayn Randesque paranoid ideation and alignment with some of the the worst elements of the United States certainly doesn’t help.
And let’s start out with the other disclosure. Tesla was very good to my investment portfolio. I got in fairly low and was repaid many, many times over. I’ve divested chunks at various high points to diversify my portfolio and my remaining stake is still quite a bit more than my initial purchases. I was long on Tesla for a long time, but recently have been considering divesting the last of my shares. Tesla’s original vision and mission were strongly aligned with actual climate solutions and have transformed the road transportation world.
I’ve been assessing autonomous vehicles and related sensor sets for almost a decade, and electric cars…
