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Hitler was really good at inspiring and motivating people. And he was very driven. I agree that coming up with crazy idea was not innovation. Well... Look at M

• Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
  Even as a Tesla fanboy and owner, I do not think that Elon has great ideas. What he DOES have is willingness to take on risk. Developing a worthwhile EV and building out an extensive charging network is expensive, but anybody could have done it. I wouldn't even say it's a novel idea at all. Prototype EVs existed before. Elon was just the first willing to invest the money to execute on the idea and make it happen. The first to actually make a serious effort into putting an EV into production and try to sell a million of them. Same with FSD. People have probably dreamed of self-driving cars for decades. Elon did not come up with that idea, he was just the first to invest millions of dollars to produce it. I would argue that Elon has terrible ideas. Like the Model S Plaid using the touch screen to shift between Park/Reverse/Drive, and replacing the turning signal stalk with touch-sensitive buttons on the yoke. Oh yeah, the yoke, another terrible Musk idea. And don't get me started on the Cybertruck. I like to think that Elon, when designing the Model S/3/X/Y, knew that people still want to drive normal looking cars, and did not try to make their cars look like some futuristic imagining of a car. But then he threw that away when making the Cybertruck, which has an extremely polarizing look. No matter how good of a truck it is, some people will not buy it simply because of its look.