They built more capacity for the Y as it’s a better selling vehicle, and if you already have a small car for the 1 and 2 people trips, using something bigger with more storage for the 3-5 people trips does make sense. I’m sure 3s will eventually end up in it though even if it’s just a way to balance factory output. Like if the 3 is selling less in a quarter and the factory is idling more, maybe adding some 3s to the robotaxi fleet instead of y’s that quarter begins to make sense?
The Model Y costs substantially more to build, is more complicated to repair and costs more to run per mile.
When only 1/5 rides need that, it’s cheaper to mass produce something else. The plan is to make millions of these.
The f150 lightning, the electric truck ford made to compete with it, which is also cancelled.
Wasn’t the 39k one for commercial fleets only? And ya these truck prices have been stupid.
Hopefully the next batch of cheaper ones help change things and more people can transition.
Pretty much. By the time this is out of production, it’ll have sold only slightly less than the F150, and it’s sold more than the Rivian R1T.
But the F150 or R1T didn’t have the same hype, or disappointing results compared to the expectations.
I still think it would have sold better if they actually made the cheap version as they announced, and if they’d done the double stacked batteries to get 500m of range (while still keeping that original price) but they basically built a completely different vehicle than was announced and expected people to still want it. Total fuck up.
80% of all taxi rides are 2 or less people.
They also have the model y which can do 5 people.
The iPhone run power intensive games, would macos really be much worse than that?
Im sure OEMs could figure it out.
Thats why I said we should do it in the very low orbits for awhile before going to the 700-1000km range.
800km is already in the hundreds of years range.
It won’t happen, but if globally we could agree to put a moratorium on large constellations in those orbits until we have more experience with constellations in the really low orbits, that would at least help and give us more time to learn. Without everyone agreeing though, someone else will just be like, MINE and fill it anyway.
Edit: like lets see what happens as starlink becomes even bigger and moves into 10s of thousands, and kupier appears etc before moving up higher.
The stats you listed are close to what 1 satellite would be if memory serves.
But when he talks about sending terrawatts up there, he’s talking about having a moon base manufacturing them and launching them into orbit with a mass acceleator, so if we’re doing that… ramping up some solar/radiator manufacturing capacity isn’t as far fetched. Were fully into sci-fi land at that point.
Just FYI the rockets won’t be expensive if this plan ends up working.
The only way this works beyond a tech demo, is if Starship works.
If Starship works as planned (big if), the marginal cost to orbit will round down to the cost of fuel to launch over the lifetime of the rocket.
Starship being fully reusable and working is going to be a mind boggling change in what access to space looks like and means.
I really hope they don’t go into the 700-1000km range with something of this scale if it actually happens as thats where a real risk of debris staying in orbit for hundreds or thousands of years starts to happen if something catastrophic happens to the constellation.
China blew up a satellite in a test in the 800km area and it’ll be there for hundreds of years.
It would probably be easier to launch shrapnel into their orbit than try to hit one, and let them begin to cascade into each other. The dishes are so low (or at least starlink is), that there’d be no real kessler risk since it’d all fall back down to earth in 5 years or less.
You could burn the ground stations down, but they’re all around the world, and all it takes is 1 to route the data to via the inter satellite laser links. You’d definitely add latency though taking out ground stations near you.
There’s only a rack worth of compute on each satellite. There is nothing monstrous to deal with individually. The plans are to put up a very large quantity of these which will sum up to a large amount.
That probably makes training on them less effective, and that would likely remain a land based thing, but for inference, any given person probably doesn’t need more than 1 rack of compute to themselves, and if they do, they’d probably be using something land based.
How could we not get to this point? Personal computing has been transforming the world for decades and the inevitable point of that was always having one in our pockets.
The pricing is stupid, but that we got here with phones is not. It’s a personal computer with a radio in it.
Apple could totally make their new phones work with MacOS as they’ve shown with the MacBook Neo, when connected to a monitor, but they won’t.
It would be pretty amazing if they did though.
Were being the key word.
Force install a plug in on all the school browsers that auto put a no Ai flag on the search query?
I mean you don’t need to believe it’s going to happen, they only needed to believe while planning things and the impacts it would have on their decisions.