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Game over Tesla (and, maybe, Western car industry)

by diego_moita on 7/13/25, 4:29 PM with 10 comments

• by os2warpman on 7/13/25, 7:36 PM

  Don't worry about US automobile manufacturers in the US.

  Protectionism will continue giving us the gift of overpriced and underperforming vehicles for decades to come.

  They'll say it's to protect "Murican Jerbs" but really it's to protect the thick and viscous layer of management and financial slime covering the corpse that is US manufacturing.

• by NoPicklez on 7/14/25, 1:15 AM

  It does seem to continue to be an issue with Tesla that they use camera's rather than lidar and millimeter wave technology.

  Do I care that my car can park itself? No I don't. Do I think Tesla needs to improve its sensors and awareness tech, I do.

• by znkynz on 7/13/25, 8:01 PM

  I have a chinese EV (GMW, not BYD). Its incredible value; Can't imagine buying another legacy manfacturer car - they're all being disrupted.

• by bix6 on 7/13/25, 10:24 PM

  Why can’t Western companies just copy BYD and others? They’ve proven this stuff works so why not just copy them at the very least?

• by dmvjs on 7/14/25, 2:29 AM

  “claims it has delivered” (L4) then “ will provide full L4 in the next two to three years”