r/SipsTea • • 8h ago

Lmao gottem Valid point

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u/True_Protection6842 8h ago

One exists and is wildly useful. The other is self indulgent bullshit to distract from the fact that Tesla is a terrible company that would be bankrupt without the circus act. 

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u/starkrampf 6h ago

So we have self driving cars, EVs being viable for the masses, rockets going to space regularly, AI revolutionizing tech and productivity.

Which one of these technologies were advanced by Europe? None. That’s the point.

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u/True_Protection6842 6h ago

Where are you seeing ev mass adoption? I have an ev and have for 7 years but it’s far from a mass adoption here. Used evs are cheap af!

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u/irn-bru-anonymous 6h ago

In Ireland over 26% of new cars purchased were ev. That’s pretty largely adopted.

In Europe as a whole it’s about 23% which isn’t bad considering where it was 7 years ago when you supposedly bought one.

Worldwide it’s about 25%

In the us it’s only about 7% this year, but that’s still a fairly large number considering.

But let’s not let facts get in the way of feels right?

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u/justinmcelhatt 6h ago

Mass adoption of Chinese evs in a large portion of the world. Idk why he thinks we can claim credit for that though..

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u/Aras14HD 5h ago

You know the thing that made LLMs usable, 'attention'? That was proposed in a paper by a German and a Candian researcher. Yes it was made into an Architecture by Google, but the foundation was partly European (and as always with sciences from all over the world). You cannot discount the base scientific research that led to the advancements and just look at the actualizations made with the investor money available in the US.

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u/starkrampf 3h ago

I’m not saying Europeans don’t produce great talent. In fact, the US benefits enormously from European talent.

My point is that the US business environment and venture capital system are far more favorable to innovation and building big technological advancements than Europe’s.

Source: I’m European and moved to the US for PhD and run a startup. I deal with VCs all the time.

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u/ZombieBlarGh 6h ago

Have you ever heard of asml? Just a small company that makes all of the above possible.

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u/Trying131 6h ago

You are completely wrong on EVs and rockets, and partially wrong on AVs and AI. You probably don't even know what all of this technology is, not to mention where it's being developed.