ELOFF MUSK - Great man - Transportation Vision could be better

7/27/2019 ELOFF MUSK - Great man - Transportation Vision could be better

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OK - I kinda think

Elon is an alien

Elon is coming to LV. He's the arguably most famous dynamic transportation innovator in thecountry / world right now. The world is lucky to have Elon. I am taking a little (after hours) time to

share my thoughts on Elon.

TSLAGeneral Motors should have built the Model S. BMW should have built the Model S. Eithercompany technically could have. But neither did, and it took someone with vision and the

right resources to make it happen. Awesome! It's a major accomplishment. Producing 500

Model S cars / week - damn!

But the Model S only lightly leverages information communication technology (ICT) to create far

more ecient and high performing transportation. With cities like Denver having an average

of 1.1 people traveling in each car, it's safe to assume roughly every Model S is traveling 75% empty

Yes, not dierent than most cars in US, but still - the Model S (and conventional cars) are traveling

at only a 20% load factor - a level of ineciency an airliner could only operate at for one weekbefore going out of business.

I nd irony when an entrepreneur makes hundreds of millions in ICT ventures, then comes to

transportation and invests in essentially an old outdated model of mobility - the car ownership

model. Elon has done that. Shai Agassi (Better Place) was essentially the same. (If billions were

spent on Better Place battery swap infrastructure across the world, the day it was nally all

installed, not one dollar would have gone to ease global urban trac congestion, or to again

leverage billions of smartphones and ICT to reduce the need for so many cars in the rst place).


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The high rollers that get the

opportunity to leverage ICT to

reinvent the movement of people

(and ultimately goods) includes

Sunil Paul (SideCar), Sean O'Sullivan

(Avego / Car.ma), and Tony Hsieh (+Zach).

From everything I have seen Elon say (and do),

I don't think he gets it. And frankly,

some don't.

DNA

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ELOF

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This is the car LA (+world) needs

but better looking | great priceTIME 4 SKINNY TESLA

So Elon has kicked ass and reinvented the powertrain of the conventional car.An obvious contribution to bettering the world.But not going as far as one could, likeProject 100 is, to really improve things.One thing he could do (if focusedon manufacturing) is build a"narrow" car, like the type I keeptalking about. (Yes, the Nissan

Land Glider type). The narrow ortandem car would be freewaycapable and could be used inany city and any place aconventional car is - but 2of the vehicles couldtravel in the space ofone (mostly empty)conventional car. Mostautomakers don't havethe balls to make this

type of vehicle.There is concernabout safety, butthere could be avariety of ICT /telematic ap-proaches toreducing likeli-hood ofcollisions.

The narrow car

has far betteraerodynamics,and saves a lotof energy as aresult. Theycarry 2 people,enough capacityfor most trips.With our citiesbecoming populatedwith many new carsharing services,upsizing from a narrow car to a larger car when needed is very feasible. Building a Tesla narrow car would be a majorcontribution to the improved livability of our cities and is a substantial business opportunity.

One LA resident writes:

What about sprawls?

within sprawls like Los Angeles? I

commute by bus and train, have

optimized my route as best as

possible, and it still takes me70 minutes to go about 20

miles (freeway equivalent).

I'd like to see the splitting

of a few freeway lanes

in halfand using

them for commuting

only in one passenger

vehicles like the Tango

(or something less

expensive) or motor-

cycles. Dedicated

lanes for small light

vehicles would make

people more

comfortable

commuting in them

and would be a

nice incentive

to travel more

and energy).

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Or,putboththeNarrowCartogetherwithadvancedtransitanddevelopaDUALMODE

Teslamobilitysystem

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Or rather than spending so many resourcesto go to space, why not help the billions

of people on Earth to better visualize

they ARE IN SPACE!

DNA

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