Liability insurance for a VW Golf with 15 million € coverage around 160€ a year [1], if you want replacement/weather damage coverage it's about 300-400€. New drivers obviously pay (way) more.
This corporate structure seems a bit sketchy for creators if the platform wants to sell. If they sell Nebula then creators split half of the profits. If they sell Standard then creators get nothing.
Why would Standard get sold though? The value to a buyer is nebula. In fact perhaps they intentionally structured things so as to detach Nebula from Standard to make it easier to spin off.
The EV market is basically (1) Tesla, (2) a bunch of Chinese auto makers (BYD and ten others you’ve never heard of), (3) and every other well-known legacy auto maker.
BYD is giving Tesla some healthy competition.
Tesla is working on a $25k auto right now that should be available in 2026.
There isn’t much hope for legacy auto in the EV space. They’re too far behind and their costs for production are too high to remain profitable.
The Chinese auto makers have announced plans to open factories in Mexico which would give them easier access to North America under the USMCA.
Chinese manufacturers like BYD are opening plants in Mexico to get around the US protectionism against Chinese made cars. Blocking this would require serious changes to the USMCA.
Tesla has proven you don’t need a dealer network to sell cars in the United States.
And how are people going to service those cars? I mean it is not a phone, that you can make a million units, send it into the world and after EoP pretend that it never existed.
The model Y is getting a revamp over the next few months. It will be interesting to see how many of the things in this article Tesla decides to change.
I think most owners of either model disagrees with that. Sure - it would be handy, but it's not a feature that I'm desperately missing. I would go so far to say that I'm not missing it at all.
Its an amazing security feature, having all required info projected by laser straight to windshield. It also saves quite a bit of money on speeding fines in cities (ie where I live going 10 over the limit is already in hundreds of dollars).
For me by far the best development in cars in past few decades, technology as it is just consistently helps with informational overload for the driver, works 100% in all possible conditions.
This is true on (eg) my Ioniq 5 that actually knows the real speed limit and shows it on the HUD but my Model Y is hopelessly bad at reading posted speed limits and would net me a bunch of tickets AND also drive 90kmh in a 120kmh zone.
This is not exclusively a Tesla problem so. As long as the speed limit is only displayed, I am fine with it. What I am not ok with, is the car enforcing it.
Edit: If Tesla isn't reading signs, well, that's a problem. Either because map data is outdated, or because speed limits are variable like on German highways (as in one minute no speed limit, 120 kmh the next, reduced to 80 10 mintes later only to be unrestricted 5 hours later again).
Either way so, it still is the drivers responsibility to drive the car in a safe and legal manner.
I don't think Tesla reads signs at all. As far as I understand they're using map data, which is often out of date. It's one of those features that is so bad that they really should give you an option to just disable it. But I guess that would be an admission of poor implementation.
It's one of those things that the entire industry seems to have solved 10-15 years ago that Tesla just can't get right. That and automatic or even functioning windscreen wipers.
I'm 99% sure it doesn't use map data (or they bought horrible data in Belgium), but I'm not sure it uses real time detecting software. Maybe it crowd sources data from other Teslas?
I'm sure because it makes mistakes only sign detection software would make. It doesn't know speed limits end at an intersection and makes this mistake all the time. Also sometimes it detects max 10 ton as max 10kmph. I don't think it's real time because it doesn't detect road works speed limits reliably. (But I think there was an update recently saying it's real time now, so maybe it changed)
Afaict in the US it uses camera to read posted signs, and it doesn't understand it so well. Again and again I had my car interpret a speed sign wrongly and change it's behaviour in consequence.
Whereas my Ioniq 5 in Korea has perfect knowledge of the speed limits, all speed camera locations, all exceptions, etc, and presents it in the windshield under the wheels of the car in front of me. Night and day.
In general Tesla relies too much on AI and not enough on boring factual/external data sources/information.
It definitely reads the signs. That has been proven many times over (with temporary signs etc, or handheld signs) visualized correctly in the 3d view, but it decides to ignore them often. The assumption is an override from the Maps, but that alone does not explain everything.
I might be wrong, but I think this is where a lot of the misconception stems from. In Norway it also shows the (usually) correct visualization, but it never use it. People have done a lot of testing and it seemingly always use map data. But this might be different in different regions. From my understanding this is where a lot of the "phantom breaking" on highways comes from. The map data shows a temporary slower speed sign due to previous construction.
In Australia, a lot of buses have a 40kmph sign on the back to show you should pass the bus at 40 when stopped - but it's laid out and coloured the same as road signs.
Every time I'm behind a bus in my Tesla, it reads the sign on the bus, displays it on the scren as the current limit, and sometimes (arbitrarily it seems) if I have autopilot on it reduces the maximum allowed speed to 40.
I can't speak for the logic run elsewhere, but AU Teslas for sure use it.
That is a strange feature that is absent at least in uk. Here the speed limit change so frequently that without hud you have to draw v slow. I wonder why no offer if an alert of close to speed limit and slow down. Or even auto slow down depend upon car behind you.
> I think most owners of either model disagrees with that
Yes, but that's by selection:
If you believe that an information display directly in front of the driver is vital (and I do believe that), then you're not in the market for a Tesla model 3, or the new Volvo EX30. If you chose one of these cars, then you most likely don't believe that.
Like with all cars I think you should try it before you buy it. That's the only way to get an idea of how things work is reality. In both models you can actually see the speed while you're looking at the road, it's just in a different place than you're used to.
That said, I agree with you from a pure marketing perspective. The idea that you need the heads-up display is a recurring one. In online forums new owners are often looking for solutions, only to come back after a couple of weeks to say that they didn't feel the need anymore. It would be interesting to know how many people just write it off without even trying it out.
My anecdotal experience: My parents went from a Volvo XC60 to a Tesla Model Y. Both were a little skeptical about the lack of heads-up display. They stopped looking for aftermarket solutions after a week.
