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The Obvious Lie Tesla Fanboys Cling To
Is Tesla actually cheaper than Waymo?
While Musk’s long-promised Robotaxis get down to the business of committing constant traffic violations, those who have dumped their life savings into Tesla are busy trying to convince themselves and us that the pathetic meme-obsessed emperor is, in fact, not naked. They claim that Waymo’s cars, Tesla’s main competitor, cost ten times as much due to their complex LiDAR and radar systems and that Tesla’s AI is advancing at a breathtaking pace, which will supposedly make them safer than a human driver in the next few years. Naturally, they want you to ignore the trash fire that was Tesla’s Robotaxi rollout, see the hypothetical “big picture”, go long on Tesla and invest it all in Musk. This stance, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that if Tesla’s robotaxis aren’t a wildly profitable runaway success, the company’s value will plummet, taking these guys’ entire unbalanced stock portfolio down with it. This bias alone should be enough for us to ignore them, but sometimes it’s good to break through the propaganda, touch grass, and figure out what is actually the case. So let’s take a moment to debunk this lie.
Yes, Waymo cars are more expensive, but not ten times so, as I have seen multiple Musk fans claim. Tesla’s current Robotaxi seems to be based on a mid-range Model Y, which costs…
