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[Poor Man -]

Well, A.I. and self driving vehicles will also require upgrades to the countries infrastructure. Fuel cell technology has been around forever, but has never been commercially feasible. Maybe that’s changing, but electric is where everything is headed.

I’m tired of seeing America left behind, and now it’s time to step into the next century.

[exwannabe]

I want my next car to have self driving capability, Tesla is probably the leader,

Tesla is probably in last place in that race. They just do a better job of name selling.

As far as fuel cell vs electric, that gets tricky. Hydrogen will take longer than gasoline to "fill the tank", but not as long as electric. But with electric, you will almost always fill at home overnight.

I have traveled in countries with extensive CNG use for taxis. The pit stop to refill is much worse than for gasoline, typically over 10 minutes. So figure with hydrogen you might have a bi-weekly 10 minute fill. With electric a few times a year you need to pit for an hour.

[CaptainObvious]

If your EV range is around 500 miles or so, it's not as important that you have fast charging, especially when traveling. I see restaurants having parking spaces with fast chargers so you can charge up while you have lunch, etc., Which would be a draw for them and another profit center.

[biosectinvestor]

I agree with you Gary, Tesla is one of the leaders, and here is why. Every car is fitted with much of the gear necessary already, but that’s not the main advantage. Tesla already has fleets of owners and cars driving on the roads, but that is not the main advantage.

There are two key advantages: 1) this is a really nice to have one, Elon Musk is deeply involved in AI and so is Tesla; and 2) the key advantage is, these many years, Tesla has their cars and their drivers driving everywhere and literally teaching their AI haw to drive in almost any circumstance.

That is, believe it or not, not the only way AI needs to learn. For instance, when you see a bicycle on the back of a car, regular AI, when it is learning, might think it is either 1) just a part of that vehicle; or 2) a bicycle crossing your path.

So, for instance, while people are driving, programmers watch for glitches like this and figure out ways to better use the censors and millions of circumstances where bicycles happen every day, to teach the AI to recognize the differences in situations like that.

In my humble opinion, Tesla is best positioned to address these issues, though other companies do have fleets of cars and of course may come up with ways far less example and mile intensive to teach their AI the difference. But AI is incredibly stupid still. Once it learns, it is better than most humans, most of the time, and way faster. But, it does not easily recognize novel situations and our roads are constantly filled with novel situations.

All my friends who have Teslas are also very happy. There will also be other great EV’a that have great features, drive far, maybe farther, and will have great AI and software. No doubt that many will be working on these issues. And no doubt Tesla’s cars will not be perfect either. Maybe they will do stupid things. Tesla drivers trust the cars way too much, in my opinion, and that creates problems when self-driving is not really official yet. But I agree with your assessment of Tesla.