So, I received this Infinity Facebook ad It immediately hit me up for my postal code. It doesn’t need to do that. The best a postal code can give you is a neighbourhood. And maybe because of me entering my old postal code from back when I lived in Mississauga, they will start to get […]
Friction Reduction Blog Posts
Tesla could save $200M from one car part.
Last week Tesla revealed their Full Self Driving computer to shareholders. In that speech, they talked about the cost savings vs. their old computer. They stated that the cost of the new unit would be 80% of the cost of their old unit from NVIDIA. According to NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit the cost […]
Insure My Tesla
I wondered many of times… will Tesla leverage their knowledge of vehicle safety to start their own insurance program? Why not give Tesla the premiums? They can provide rangers parts immediately upon claims. When Tesla does something, they remove all the friction they can to ensure users have the best experience possible. Shopping around for […]
Tesla saving money by switching to FSD.
Even if you watched the almost full 4 hours of video for Tesla Autonomy Day, you may have missed the 10 second slide that explains one very important thing. [Edit April 24] As it turns out, there are several mentions of this in the video. I timed the slide, wrote the sentence and now I […]
NVIDIA disputes Tesla’s TOPS
A good article from Electric NVIDIA disputes some of Tesla’s FSD computer claims, but they miss the main point nicely points out the importance of power consumption in this debate. I have some more opinions on the matter. What makes a fair comparison? Is it fair to compare a product in mass production to a […]
Expect Tesla to Buy Storage Locker Chains or Franchises
I don’t work for Tesla. I have had no point of contact with anybody from Tesla other than two support emails inquiring about how often you should undercoat your car (never) and whether AP/FSD can be transferred to the purchase of a new Tesla (no they don’t). From time to time, I think about the […]
Billion Dollar Company C
So you write some code to connect a few API’s together between Billion Dollar Comany A and Billion Dollar Company B. Now products can flow through a process never before streamlined. From contract to stamp of approval all the previous human calculations are minimized. Company A was great to work with. Company B, pretty good. […]
Tesla Downsizing
If you have not been paying attention to Elon Musk in the last few years, then you might not know that he has been saying some pretty obvious things with regards to using as few humans as possible to accomplish the task at hand. The original intention was to make the assembly line completely automated. […]