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Burden of history weighs on Detroit vs. Tesla (detroitnews.com)
1 point by rmason on April 11, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



One reason I posted this was the comments section. I've lived in Michigan my entire life and I want it to get better. But the comments of those are ones I hear just about every single week.

Japanese cars used to be pretty rare in the state so it was easy to be in denial when they grabbed enormous market share in the seventies and eighties. You can't even buy a Tesla in the state so you see few of them and the denial begins anew.

Just this week there was an article that Detroit was winning the tech war with autonomous cars and that Silicon Valley was throwing in the towel. Only problem is that no one has told the Valley;<).




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