Elon Musk interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro
Discussion
A strange interview. It'll strengthen your opinions on Elon Musk and Tesla whatever side of the fence you sit on. The comments on the video itself will illustrate that further....
I haven't ever looked at the work of the interviewer - from the media mileage derived from his results from pulling down some Tesla ages ago I thought he was quite forthright and had a conservative approach. Not to say that the problem with the Tesla autopilot is the roads themselves...
The part about the seats was illuminating - I do remember the debacle about them taking the manufacture of seats in-house. I believe most car manufacturers outsource those components so they don't have to build a whole heap of knowledge on it. But could Tesla themselves leverage the IP themselves and get into the OE seat game, or allow people to use their patents? Similarly, they've produced a whole heap of IP about other things, they purchase a toolmaker when said toolmaker had other contracts to fulfil before Teslas so they could jump the queue....
I haven't ever looked at the work of the interviewer - from the media mileage derived from his results from pulling down some Tesla ages ago I thought he was quite forthright and had a conservative approach. Not to say that the problem with the Tesla autopilot is the roads themselves...
The part about the seats was illuminating - I do remember the debacle about them taking the manufacture of seats in-house. I believe most car manufacturers outsource those components so they don't have to build a whole heap of knowledge on it. But could Tesla themselves leverage the IP themselves and get into the OE seat game, or allow people to use their patents? Similarly, they've produced a whole heap of IP about other things, they purchase a toolmaker when said toolmaker had other contracts to fulfil before Teslas so they could jump the queue....
Edited by rodericb on Thursday 4th February 08:35
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