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Making promises he can't keep about things he doesn't properly understand to convince well-meaning but ultimately naive investors to keep coughing up the dough,
by neotek 7y ago
Making promises he can't keep about things he doesn't properly understand to convince well-meaning but ultimately naive investors to keep coughing up the dough, as usual.
- jfoster 7y agoTrying to do something isn't a promise.
- neotek 7y agoNo, saying "Boring company will transport your car all the way into your garage" is a promise. Saying "The Boring Company will be using dirt from tunnel digging to create bricks for low cost housing" is a promise. So is "Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins." Elon Musk has a practically unbroken track record of making wildly speculative, overconfident promises about all sorts of technologies that never materialise, and gullible people lap it up like it's going out of fashion. People are dying because of Tesla's irresponsible and misleading marketing, and Musk shouldn't get a pass just because some people think he's a visionary.
- jfoster 7y agoI think most people understand that when he says those things, he's stating ambitions rather than "making promises."
- neotek 7y agoTell that to the families mourning the deaths of the people who didn't realise something called AutoPilot and dishonestly marketed as FSD capable is just an ambition.