Tesla is closing many of its stores in favour of customers buying from its website.
It's clear that automating a manual process reduces the number of jobs, but perhaps access to information does too? Are we reducing sales teams due to websites?
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I'm amazed to learn that Tesla normally disables parts of the battery on cheap models, but was able to remotely enable the full battery during hurricane Dorian!
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/09/12/how-the-world-will-change-as-computers-spread-into-everyday-objects
A car is turning into a computer with wheels, and that computer is sometimes a thin client.