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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Maurice Winn who wrote (171993)5/19/2021 4:22:41 PM
From: sense  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217742
 
"Alternative gold"... that has to remain plugged into the wall outlet to work...

Real gold... that doesn't.

Flip a coin... and if it lands... buy gold.

If it doesn't... quit your day job.



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (171993)5/28/2021 5:00:07 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217742
 
TSLA has tipped over the "return to normal" and has tottered down a little. Look out below. Next stop, fear. TJ has certainly provided a good graph. It has applied to many things. The upward trend over several years certainly matched the graph, with a soaring top based entirely on expectations of hoped for software to manage images coming in from surrounds to mimic human perception and experienced intelligence which will be a very impressive thing and the trends over decades to achieve that are good. And inevitable. And far exceed them because software can get information from historical data from millions of cars, as well as from millions of cars instantaneously that are dealing with the current real world. But we're a long way from that. And there's a LOT of competition to achieve autonomous vechicles, with $trillions in value to be created so the economic voltage to achieve it is huge.

Electric cars are still uneconomic because of their huge weight and cost to get sufficient range, the half hour to get a part charge if there's no queue for chargers, the peak pricing of electricity. Normal humans still want economic transport rather than virtual signaling luxury expense for fun.

A Tesla is not a good design for an autnomous taxi, but of course they could soon design a car body to suit taxi function. Teslas are designed for individuals to own a car to suit the owners, not mass transport.

Meanwhile, the price of TSLA has got a few years to go before winners of autonomy start to show up.

Yes, it's nice if their gearbox is a bit better than competitors, and their motors are slightly more efficient, and batteries get a bit more km per kg, but a 0 to 100 kph win is irrelevant albeit fun a few times to try it out.

Will "fear" be next? Looks likely. There's no P:E that looks good. Bitcoin was a bust.

Mqurice