A fun time capsule popped up on Twitter today — the Tesla Motors Club gathering of 2014.
Summary from the San Jose Mercury News at the time: “MONTEREY — The co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a Menlo Park venture capital firm, paced excitedly and spoke at breakneck speed about the future of electric vehicles, as if bragging about a child who made the honor roll.
Some day everything on the road will be powered by electricity, said Steve Jurvetson… “In 2010, I was speaking to a room full of executives from Castrol, a $10 billion-a-year company. All they do is make products that work in internal combustion engines — that’s 100 percent of their business,” Jurvetson recounted Saturday at TMC Connect, Tesla Motor Club’s summer symposium at the Monterey Hyatt Regency Hotel. “What I told them that day is that they’re essentially working for a buggy whip company. I told them I feel like I have a sixth sense: I see dead people.” — https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/07/19/the-ev-generation-the-faithful-gather-for-tesla-event-in-monterey/
Here is the video of the talk: https://youtu.be/dOBTCAOZSV0 and a selection focused on self-driving cars: https://youtu.be/aY78BGwrwzE
Topics I covered:
• Delivery of VIN0001: https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=44124348109@N01&sort=date-posted-desc&text=model%20s1
• Google autonomous cars circa 2011 >> elderly and teen drivers https://www.flickr.com/search?user_id=44124348109@N01&sort=date-posted-desc&text=robocar
• EV past and future dominance: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/7126943085/#comment72157629565565652
• Castrol management — Oil Humor: https://flic.kr/p/8ztJ5W
• The Chinese EV surprise: https://flic.kr/p/bVjdcF
Photos by my son =)
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