Tesla:Welcome X Æ A-12

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  1. $P1

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  2. Houndster

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    The way I understood that: you press a button and your car drives itself to you.
     
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  3. The Banks

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    How far will it go to get to you?
     
  4. bro

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    or you can press it and send it home

    I can't wait to be driving home in my 1995 Honda and looking left and seeing an empty 2018 Tesla driving itself home
     
  5. Houndster

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    Just from the tweet, it sounds like it can go as far as needed as long as you're connected by land.
    I don't see what the difference would be as long as you're not in the driver's seat actively trying to control the vehicle.
     
  6. PeteTopKevinBottom

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    Holy shit, someone at Auburn got a wrap for their TESLA hood in Clemson colors because that much "fuck alabama." WOW.
     
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  7. The Banks

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    What's the current legality for self driving cars these days?
     
  8. heyblinkin

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    Was about to ask the same question. From what I remember it is still illegal to not have someone in a driver seat in self driving cars. I thought the intent was to keep it that way for safety purposes.
     
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  10. Upton^2

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    I believe you have to keep your hands on the wheel. I think the current iteration can start alerting you and eventually steer off the road if your hands aren't on the wheel for a certain amount of time. That's why everyone was so freaked out when the first autopilot version came out, a bunch of idiots were taping themselves eating and generally not paying attention
     
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  12. Nug

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    My buddy and his fiance are already on the waiting list to pre-order for next month. Gonna wait and see how his goes/see if there are any kinks that need to get worked out, but if everything's fine I'll be getting one within the next calendar year.
     
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  13. Bruce Wayne

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    They have more money in uncollected revenue for unfulfilled Model X preorders than all of their revenue for 2015. That's amazing
     
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  14. allothersnsused

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    Shit like this is what makes me confident in my stock buy despite the giant drop over the past couple months. Almost makes me want to buy some more.

    And before the finance bros jump on me, I recognize my investment is highly speculative and in no way backed by P/E ratios and shit. I just see developments like this and imagine TSLA being the next AAPL in a decade.
     
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  15. Where Eagles Dare

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    Wonder how much the waiting list deposit will be for a 3.

    Dropping 5 Gs for a car 3 years down the road seems to be a bit annoying. Plus, the electric credit incentives seem to be going away. They did away with them in GA and the Fed will cut them as soon as as non D is holding office
     
  16. Hugo Boss

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    There is a waiting list just to pre-order? Shit, I'm going in this weekend to check out the pre-order process. Didn't know starting a month and a half early I'd still be in the back of the line.
     
  17. Hugo Boss

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    Musk said it's just a grand.
     
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    I believe that's the case, but he also told me this over beers a few weeks ago so I could be off.
     
  19. Bruce Wayne

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    Are you sure he's not talking about the Model X?

    Model 3 preorders don't start until the end of March
     
  20. Nug

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    He was definitely talking about the $35K model, the Model 3. Said he had to get on a waiting list to pre-order.

    A pre-pre-order, if you will
     
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  21. Hugo Boss

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    That might have been the beer talking. March 31 for accepting pre-orders was announced on his twitter less than a week ago. Although he's been saying March 2016 for sometime so maybe they are already in pre-pre-order mode. :idk:
     
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  22. Nug

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    Es posible

    Regardless, I'm gonna wait for the 2nd generation model to come out (is that the correct terminology?). I'm all about Tesla, but apprehensive that the initial Model 3s may have some glitches.
     
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  23. Biff Bridges

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    This will be the 3rd model they're coming out with so you'd like to think by that time glitches would be at a minimum but I get what you're saying. I'm considering pre-order for the 3 but I'm apprehensive about the size of the car. If it's similar to a 3 series BMW, I'm afraid it will be too small.
     
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  24. Mix

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    I'm going to be interested to see what this car and others coming out do to the re-sale market for regular old gas vehicles. Can't be good.
     
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  25. Nug

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    True, but can't you also go ahead and start your payment plan? So you could have most of the car paid off by the time you actually get it?

    A little different, but that could be a silver lining.
     
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    I like the idea of a tesla, and if the 3 had been out when I bought my car 4 years ago that would've been my choice. My next vehicle will probably be for work, probably an suv or truck. So as of now I don't see myself buying a tesla because they don't have a truck and their suv is outrageously priced. I doubt the technology exists for an electric truck currently, but if they come out with a 35k suv in the next few years that would change things, however.
     
  27. Bruce Wayne

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    They work all of the bugs out prior to wide release, hence all of the delays and low initial delivery numbers with the Model S and X. You can reserve on 4/1 like everyone else and not have anything to worry about.

    Tesla can't afford to rush its products to market
     
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  28. Where Eagles Dare

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    Dude might be on an email notification list of when he can pre-order.
     
  29. Where Eagles Dare

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    Never heard that. Kinda weird paying for it.

    I currently never drive. I ride a bike to work 90% of my days. I'd be interested in getting one for the wife, but still have 3 years left on her car payment.
     
  30. Nug

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    He is an Intellectual Property/Patent attorney, so is very "in the know," so to speak. Could be the case.
    Just thinking out loud, but don't know why you couldn't. Or, you could simply deposit X amount into a separate account each month, treat it as a car payment, and then drop all that saved coin when you actually buy it. Could save some on interest (although I'd never be disciplined enough to do this).
     
  31. Truman

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    Did know this thread existed. I shared this in the rtt - but Tesla came to our office a couple weeks ago. Got to test drive the S. Cool AF. Couldnt believe how quiet it was. The pickup was great. The lack of the buttons and one massive flat screen display was a little to get use to as well.

    Im the furthest thing from a car guy, so I was probably easily impressed.
     
  32. PAHokie

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    When I can get 400 miles to a charge and recieve one within 2 months of order let me know.
     
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  33. Hugo Boss

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    Test driving the model s later today (hopefully one with the ludicrous speed package :pray:). Gonna find out about pre-ordering the model 3. Will report back later.
     
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  34. Where Eagles Dare

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    Model 3 to be revealed tonight at 1130 est. :ohshit:

     
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  35. London Humphreys

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    Why? People don't like it?
     
  36. Where Eagles Dare

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    Why what?

    I'm excited
     
  37. MORBO!

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    Bummer to hear it's gonna be reviled. I was hopeful.
     
  38. Bruce Wayne

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    You meant to say it will be "revealed" but instead you said it's going to be "reviled," which means to criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.
     
  39. Where Eagles Dare

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    Let's not get lost in the horrible grasp I have on the English language.
     
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  40. Hugo Boss

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    There's over a hundred people in line rn at the Tesla dealership in Charlotte.
     
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  41. Hugo Boss

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    One guy legitimately looks homeless.
     
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    "SOUP! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
     
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  43. Biff Bridges

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    Stream is up and rolling. Just put my reservation in. You can cancel at anytime and they'll apply the downpayment to your purchase if you decide to go through with it. Figured what the hell.
     
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  44. Kylebw1

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    Saw an S downtown today. It was a flat grey with custom wheels and looked great. If I wasn't driving past it I would have taken a pic. Had some sort of weird Tesla rear plate on it instead of a state tag so I'm guessing it was new.
     
  45. Hugo Boss

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    image.jpeg Almost forgot to post my $1000 pen I got this morning.
     
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  46. Heesu

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    I love tesla, but if they get the model 3 out anywhere close to on time I'll be shocked.

    They haven't even sourced some fairly key components yet, which usually means about a ~2 year lead time. Very interested to see how this plays out...