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One of the things I notice about Silicon Valley & Big Tech is how often they co-opt the language of transformation and change, and yet how poor they are at following through. Education, healthcare, and housing - all getting gradually worse. Not Silicon Valley’s concern. They’re chasing investor trillions to get rich quickly from AI.
The US administration is tariffing left, right, and center to encourage homegrown stories like the one in Mexico. What if Silicon Valley is built to just not care?
This car was designed for use on low-speed roads in densely populated areas and to be bought by lower income people, so it’s not a fair comparison. It’s a car made for the reality of the third-world, with a low cost, low power consumption and that does the job. Also, the expertise in making cars doesn’t come from nowhere, so they have to start somewhere, and this is a great start.
But what is worth comparing is the general idea of making a low-consumption car for the working people, instead of making show-off machines for the well-off people
The question was why are other companies not doing this, so you’re not exactly arguing against my point.
There is a version of this for the roads here it’s called the Slate Truck and we all know why it doesn’t cost just $8000.
I can buy a street legal golf cart for about $8,000; there is a decent market in parts of the USA for them. There were articles back in '08 suggesting that Americans use them as second cars in sunbelt suburbs as a cheaper alternative to a full car.