Scoble shares a robotics insider's parking-lot test: beater cars mean real scaling
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-10
A robotics insider told Scobleizer a heuristic for judging robot companies: luxury-only parking lots mean executives and no real building, while lots of beater cars signal engineering teams scaling up. He cites Tesla's Fremont factory (years of beater cars, newer Teslas as stock options pay off) and Figure's headquarters, which is full of beater cars — a sign it is actually scaling robot production.
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