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Elon Musk had zero experience building cars, yet he made Tesla happen. Perhaps a high intellect and a good general purpose engineering training can accomplish m
by D_Alex 10y ago
Elon Musk had zero experience building cars, yet he made Tesla happen. Perhaps a high intellect and a good general purpose engineering training can accomplish more than you think.
You, on the other hand, are overwhelmed by the challenge of maintaining vacuum in a tube that spans a mere 17 miles. At the very least, you should restrain yourself from using language like "...some idea he farted out...".
- bertiewhykovich 10y agoGiven that the Hyperloop is failing spectacularly, "a high intellect and a good general purpose engineering training" seem empirically to not accomplish quite as much as you think they do -- although, in fairness to high intellect and good general purpose engineering training, there was never any real reason to think that they'd be able to accomplish magic.
- icebraining 10y ago1) Elon Musk is not building any Hyperloop, so I don't see how its supposed failure reflects on him. 2) Which Hyperloop is failing? There are at least three groups, and as far as I know, they haven't even got close to testing the system, let alone know if it's a failure or not. I'm skeptical of the whole concept, but declaring failure at this stage is no less silly than assuming it'll definitively work.
- agumonkey 10y agoI don't think he was alone in this, if he says it was hard, I'd assume it was hard for a whole team of world class physicists and engineers.
- robotresearcher 10y ago> You, on the other hand, are overwhelmed by the challenge of maintaining vacuum in a tube that spans a mere 17 miles. You say 'overwhelmed' but I'll just point out it is built and working, and at almost-perfect vacuum.
- D_Alex 10y agoYes... it clearly is a manageable issue. The opening comment writer was the one who was overwhelmed, and no surprise given his lack of understanding demonstrated in his answer elsewhere. I just hate it when people with such a lack of knowledge make rude, hateful remarks.
- robotresearcher 10y agoHmm, that person "worked on the LHC for several years" so they might know a couple of things about long evacuated tubes. Unless I'm not following the thread very well. Shrug.
- jheriko 10y agobe careful, tesla is not successful as a car company yet, and its not in good shape to become one either. one day it might be, and more generally i do hope that we see more progress in the electric car world... but for now tesla only turns a profit as a car company coupled with government incentives. even then, outside of the US (and inside actually) their market share is tiny or zero with very little growth. saying that it doesn't even exist is a very good approximation to reality... if you ignore tech focused news articles and the like at least. i wouldn't call that a success just yet... as much as we may admire the mission.
- crdoconnor 10y ago>but for now tesla only turns a profit as a car company coupled with government incentives. Subsidies and protective tariffs are the norm in the auto market. It would put any car company that didn't get them at a significant disadvantage.
- wilam 10y agoyear over year grown >50% seems a lot for a car company.
- thesimpsons1022 10y agoIf I build 2 cars last year and sell 3 this year then I bet you'd be really impressed huh?
- zerooneinfinity 10y agoIn terms of their mission statement which is convince people that electric cars can be 'cool', practical and inexpensive he has succeeded much more than you are giving him and the people at Tesla credit for.
- jheriko 10y agofair enough, but its a different metric of success. :)
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- syngrog66 10y agoalso he started a successful, innovative new rocket company