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Tesla – Model breakdown

Tesla has further to fall. Tesla looks to be in real difficulty as a chronic inability to make money combined with a business transition that is going to take many...

Connected vehicles – Damaging lethargy

Sirius XM capitalises on OEM lethargy. Sirius XM is launching a series of services for its customers which are exactly the sorts of services the OEMs should have launched years...

Uber & Lyft – No prisoners.

The public market takes no prisoners. Uber’s IPO turned from a celebration into a wake as the public market refused to support a valuation that does not reflect the harsh...

Tesla – Leaky bucket

The assumptions do not hold water It looks like Tesla has been successful in raising money for its autonomous driving ambitions but I find its commentary to be somewhat misleading...

Autonomous driving – Common roadblock.

Pony’s pilot highlights everyone’s problems. The launch of Pony.ai’s 1st live pilot looks great but digging into some of the details reveals that, just like everyone else, Pony.ai is plagued...

Uber Autonomous – FOMO syndrome

Japanese investors have a bad case of FOMO syndrome. Fear of missing out (FOMO) is the only rational reason I can come up with for why Toyota and Denso would...

Tesla – Fact or fantasy

Tesla’s bold claims do not hold up to scrutiny. Elon Musk has made some pretty bold claims on Tesla’s behalf regarding the state of its autonomous driving solution but with...

Uber IPO – Big but not beautiful

A profitless platform isn’t worth anything. Uber is asking for a much higher valuation than Lyft which it is trying to justify through its dominant position in its home market....

China Autonomous – Dog and Pony Show.

Pony.ai & Baidu can do what Waymo apparently cannot. While Beijing is keeping the important autonomous driving data close to its chest, what is available suggests that Pony.ai is the...

Autonomous driving – Full stop ahead.

Whack-a-mole is not good enough. A Chinese demonstration of the inadequacies of Tesla’s autopilot also clearly shows that the current methodology of rushing out software patches after the event is...