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I don't understand this headline. It didn't tell me why building electric cars is harder than orbital, reusable rockets. It told me that the difficulty in compe
by wallace_f 9y ago
I don't understand this headline. It didn't tell me why building electric cars is harder than orbital, reusable rockets. It told me that the difficulty in competing in the market for cars is relatively quite competitive, and that for reusable rockets was virtually stagnant--Which I already knew, and believe most readers here do. But we wouldn't read it if that were the headline.
The headline is open to all sort of interpretation. Most of them, misleading.
- tobyhinloopen 9y agoWelcome to news media outlets... sensational titles, speculation and no real content
- Certhas 9y agoIt's also obviously not actually harder. SpaceX has built a few dozen reusable rockets, Tesla alone has build tens of thousands of electric cars. Nevermind that people have been building electric cars for a century or so. But then, the question: "Why is doing things cheaply at scale at high quality harder than creating a few items by hand?" wouldn't draw so many clicks...