Tesla reported a hefty drop in second-quarter profits Tuesday due to the effect of price cuts while spending aggressively on autonomous driving and other technology.

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    5 months ago

    Don’t worry guys; Tesla is an AI company, not a car company. So car sales don’t matter much, right?

    Right?

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      5 months ago

      Any moment now your investment in an automated taxi will pay off and you can live off of taxi fares.

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        5 months ago

        Who does the passenger’s family sue when the car drives them down a railroad track? The owner? Tesla? Elon?

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          5 months ago

          Wasn’t the driver supposed to monitor the system under the current law?

          What point are you making here?

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      5 months ago

      Booted? They just voted him a 55 billion dollar bonus.

      This is exactly what his investors want apparently.

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        5 months ago

        It’s so hilarious IMO, by the rate they made money this past quarter, it will take Tesla 10 years, just to earn that $55 billion bonus back.

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          5 months ago

          It did pass and is tied to performance of the company. He doesn’t actually get a 55B bonus. His bonus is in the form of stock, its award is tiered based on revenue-tied performance, and he can’t sell the stock until 5 years after it’s awarded, as to prevent a pump-and-dump incentive structure.