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Elon Musk on Robotaxis in 2019 to investors: "I feel very confident predicting 1 million autonomous robo-taxis for Tesla next year," Elon Musk on Robotaxis in

Elon Musk on Robotaxis in 2019 to investors: "I feel very confident predicting 1 million autonomous robo-taxis for Tesla next year," Elon Musk on Robotaxis in 2025 to investors: "We have done what we said we were going to do. That doesn't mean we're always on time, but we get it done. And our naysayers are sitting there with egg on their face." Tesla launched a 'Robotaxi Service' which is: - operating in a geofenced area in Austin, with a fleet of ~10 cars - not open to public, only to Tesla influencers - having a 'safety driver' inside the car with a finger constantly on an emergency stop button - operating during clement weather In the meantime, he became the richest person in the world selling those lies to gullible investors. Ps. Sorry for posting so much about Tesla, but I feel like not enough people realize how scammy this whole thing is.

toomuchtodo 1y ago
Turns out the lies don’t matter. Disappointing for sure.
- TheAlchemist 1y ago
  He just said, on the Tesla investors call, that they are on track to have 'unsupervised FSD in US, by ... the end of the year'. He said the same thing for 11 straight YEARS. Yeah, disappointing for the state of the world we live in.
bigyabai 1y ago
> Sorry for posting so much about Tesla, but I feel like not enough people realize how scammy this whole thing is. Much of HN speaks on behalf of their investing portfolio and not logic or righteousness.
- TheAlchemist 1y ago
  A lof ot HN is also probably younger people that never experience a bubble pop. And it's very easy to start to believe this bullshit when the stock (or everything for that matter) is going up. In the long term however the reality always catches up.
duxup 1y ago
I think that's social media for you. Brave predictions (that cost nothing even if your wrong) are glorified before they've even done anything. There was a story posted on HN about someone who said they thought they'd start a company making laptops and zero indication they would / could do that. The emphasis on empty "predictions" is weird.
- TheAlchemist 1y ago
  I completely understand brave predictions for a small startup - I believe we (as individuals and as society) should encourage risk taking. But this is a mature company that's part of S&P 500. There are laws, and for very good reasons, that regulates what such companies and their CEOs can say. Somehow, those laws don't apply to Tesla and Musk so far, and they got to touch billions of public money by straight up lying.
- Zigurd 1y ago
  Where are the Zoox knob-polishers? One of these social media phenomena is not like the others. One of them has metastasized from clever guerilla marketing to a malignant cult and stock-pumping op.

toomuchtodo 1y ago

Turns out the lies don’t matter. Disappointing for sure.

TheAlchemist 1y ago
He just said, on the Tesla investors call, that they are on track to have 'unsupervised FSD in US, by ... the end of the year'. He said the same thing for 11 straight YEARS. Yeah, disappointing for the state of the world we live in.

bigyabai 1y ago

> Sorry for posting so much about Tesla, but I feel like not enough people realize how scammy this whole thing is. Much of HN speaks on behalf of their investing portfolio and not logic or righteousness.

TheAlchemist 1y ago
A lof ot HN is also probably younger people that never experience a bubble pop. And it's very easy to start to believe this bullshit when the stock (or everything for that matter) is going up. In the long term however the reality always catches up.

duxup 1y ago

I think that's social media for you. Brave predictions (that cost nothing even if your wrong) are glorified before they've even done anything. There was a story posted on HN about someone who said they thought they'd start a company making laptops and zero indication they would / could do that. The emphasis on empty "predictions" is weird.

TheAlchemist 1y ago
I completely understand brave predictions for a small startup - I believe we (as individuals and as society) should encourage risk taking. But this is a mature company that's part of S&P 500. There are laws, and for very good reasons, that regulates what such companies and their CEOs can say. Somehow, those laws don't apply to Tesla and Musk so far, and they got to touch billions of public money by straight up lying.
Zigurd 1y ago
Where are the Zoox knob-polishers? One of these social media phenomena is not like the others. One of them has metastasized from clever guerilla marketing to a malignant cult and stock-pumping op.