by Randall McAdory | Jan 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation, TaaS, Tesla, Transportation as a Service, Waymo
In the spirit of transparency, I do own shares of stocks of some companies mentioned by me within TaaS Master that are also in the transportations-as-a-service space. You may recall from a previous post that the ecosystem of autonomous companies is large and growing....
by Randall McAdory | Jan 13, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Tesla, Waymo
Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) conducts research in human-centered artificial intelligence, deep learning, autonomous vehicles and robotics at MIT. During a presentation on the state of deep learning in 2020, Fridman compares the benefits and drawbacks of Waymo’s approach...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 9, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Intel, Tesla
In a previous post, I discussed Elon Musk’s view that the usage of lidar in autonomous vehicle applications is a “fools errand.” Musk believes that radar, cameras, ultrasonic sensors and neural networks are all that’s needed to make self-driving vehicles function...
by Randall McAdory | Dec 1, 2019 | TaaS, Tesla, Transportation as a Service
Friday, Tesla’s stock price ended the day at $329.94 per share. On June 3, 2019 Tesla’s stock was $178.97. Friday’s price represents an 84% stock price gain since June 3. In October of this year, Ark Investment founder and CEO, Katherine Wood, predicted a rise in...
by Randall McAdory | Oct 26, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
I’m not referring to the company getting better with time. I’m not even referring to this year’s manufactured Tesla vehicle being better than last year’s produced car. Tesla cars – no matter when they’re purchased – get better over time due to the...
by Randall McAdory | Oct 16, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
Steve Lang, a special contributor to Capital One, wrote an interesting piece a few weeks ago titled, The Tesla Effect: How Tesla Is Changing the Used Car Game. Lang asserts that the once strong demand for European luxury brands is declining dramatically due to the...
