Comments by "Michael Nurse" (@michaelnurse9089) on "DW News" channel.

  1. In the past, superior German engineering justified a higher labour cost. Now engineering from both Tesla and China (who has a low labour cost) has left German Engineering in 3rd or 4th or even 5th place. Of course, it is nearly impossible to tell union workers they must reduce their salaries to 50%, so the company then enters a death spiral and sheds customers. It is far from over and tariffs result in counter-tariffs.
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  2. Good work Iya Ibrahim
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  3. At a certain point in the 2000s Germany realised that they could outsource nearly everything to China and just do the engineering. Recently, China realized they can just do the engineering better and cheaper themselves. Many countries were once exceptional are no longer so - Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina.
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  4. You can only invest if you cut money elsewhere. Which social programs will you give the chop to?
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  5.  @puchatek5584  Germany was allied with and part of the West. You took a big gamble in striking a deal with the traditional enemies of the West - Russia and China.
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  6. North Korea too.
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  7. None of these. Problem is VW uses 2x labour to make a car compared to Toyota and 4x compared to Tesla.
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  8. Think of it as a tax on bad drivers.
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  9. GM, Ford, Stellantis and soon Toyota will be in the same boat.
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  10. Its not free-market when government subsidizes the companies. It is mercantilism.
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  11. There is a saying "Don't shoot the messenger". Well, in my experience, simple people always shoot the messenger.
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  12. It still has brand power, but that is not enough.
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  13. You can easily shield them in a bunker. Also, you pop a nuke and then Russia will pop 7000 nukes - 100 on every major western city.
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  14. Teslas last more than 300 000 miles. New batteries from China will have million mile/km guarantee so then they will last even longer. No gearbox, no engine failure, no rust if made from aluminium.
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  15. Russian energy comes with Russian politics.
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  16.  @wolfswinkel8906  That's all fine and well, but at one stage Germany was ahead of the World with regards to wind and solar and then it fell flat when presumably the pipelines came marching into town.
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  17. Nobody is asking for a ban. They want rules. Rules on design (e.g. no launch and forget assassin drones), production (e.g. disallowing corporations to stockpile private armies) and use (e.g. you may only use them once you have been invaded by a substantial enemy force and sustained x amount of damage).
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  18. Tesla automate everything. They also make cars people want.
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  19.  @lv7603  It was relevant because it shattered a myth held Worldwide that VWs were the best alternative for someone who couldn't handle the boring design of Toyotas.
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  20. German innovators moved to the US.
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  21. Nope. Armenia lost all their AA without a single kill to drones. That is how they lost the war.
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  22. Unions are not incentivised for long term survival. They just have a one year outlook - what raises and other concession can we get in the next 12 months. Tesla did well to keep them out.
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  23. Would you nuke your own city to stop a drone attack?
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  24. Sure. But they will also let you go for other reasons, like to bump the stock price before they exercise their options.
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  25. Calling them blackouts is racist. Don't do that.
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  26. "Tesla is not a well made vehicle" Once upon a time this was true. Now they have the lowest running costs and longest life with no more panel gaps.
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  27. By definition all AI are trained by humans. We conceptualize them, choose the data and training criteria. Morally, anything we can do they can do.
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  28. You post is lost on most people. But it is spot on!
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  29. Countries, or companies, can have two mindsets - value creation or value extraction - the former leads to Tesla today, the later VW today.
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  30. "with the company assembling its vehicles in far-flung areas across the globe. My golf was assembled in South Africa. " Nope. Research shows car quality has everything to do with the design of the manufacturing process and nothing to do with where it is assembled. Blame zee Germans.
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  31. Adjusted for inflation it is the same price. Difference is the one from the 90's you could buy cheap parts and fix it yourself.
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  32. Yup. In the 90's after the Berlin Wall fell it looked like we were in for a war free world. Instead, the US, China and Russia just retooled and got ready for the next round.
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  33. Toyota will be like VW in 5 years time. They have no EVs and no plans to make them. Already they are losing market to BYD in Asia.
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  34. There was no choice. If Germany did not tow the line then the US will sanction them too.
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  35. Solar panels have never been cheaper.
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  36. It is the wrong term. It should be "Launch and Forget" as autonomous systems can identify targets, lock onto them and decide when to fire. All you have to do is decide how many to launch and where.
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  37. Depends on the the government.
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  38. No. AGI is not possible - the technology does not exist in any form. What is possible is that humans using narrow AI f up the World with machines becoming intelligent.
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  39. They can sell their cars to Russia, North Korea, Pakistan.
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  40. millions?
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  41. Did 2 billion just die? 75 million cars a year and 10 year life with 4 people sharing the average car. Roughly half can afford to travel by car.
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  42. Exactly what anyone not US, Russian or Chinese should be thinking.
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  43. Stop looking for hard evidence - look to the behaviors. If China had found proof that it came from animals they would have thrust all evidence into the face of the rest of the World. If they know it came out the lab they have no option but to obfuscate and stonewall. This is how the CCP behaves in all matters so why would it be different this time?
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  44. War crimes are a convenient fiction. Watch the film "A Judgement at Nuremburg" to see why.
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  45. These things are allowed in terms of the rules.
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  46. They used AI to make the vaccines. Initial proposals are AI driven.
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  47. Matrix 2 and Matrix 3.
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  48. As a Tesla shareholder, I really, really like the way VWs look.
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  49. VW employees make more than anyone. They also vote.
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  50.  @deaffeb  Innovation takes time, capital, and will. VW has no will to innovate. When Tesla arrived they mocked them while the Chinese got to work copying them.
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