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Two more years guys, just give him two more years, a few more billion, a bit more political power and I promise he'll give you your fancy self driving toy. (Rep
by lm28469 1y ago
Two more years guys, just give him two more years, a few more billion, a bit more political power and I promise he'll give you your fancy self driving toy. (Repeat from 2012 ad infinitum)
- cedws 1y agoSolar roofs, Dojo, Hyperloop, robotaxi, roadster, semi, mission around the Moon, man on Mars by 2020, it’s all coming guys he promised!
- iwontberude 1y ago[flagged]
- asah 1y agothe problem is that TSLA (the company) is pivoting hard to humanoid robots, which is a relatively easier problem, perfectly big market and Musk is a terrific salesguy. Medium/long term, humanoid robots are commodity but so were electric cars and TSLA (the stock) rode that to glory.
- hliyan 1y agoBoring Company. Whatever happened to those tunnels?
- danaris 1y agoThey did their job: they discouraged the construction of high-speed rail. Musk has, IIRC, actually admitted that this was their purpose.
- panick21_ 1y agoNo it didn't. The Hyperloop had no impact what so ever on California High Speed Rail.
- reaperducer 1y agoYou're right, it wasn't about high speed rail. It was about scuttling the expansion of the monorail to the airport. Musk just picked up after the taxi cartel collapsed.
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- jcranmer 1y agoThey've only built out the system at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and every other project seems to have fallen through.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago> fallen through That word choice.
- walls 1y agoTesla's cant even navigate the tunnels they made themselves without a driver, it's really impressive.
- reaperducer 1y agoThey've only built out the system at the Las Vegas Convention Center Kinda sorta. It only operates a few hours a day, and the cars are not self-driving. It's like a dedicated tunnel for Ubers.
- arm32 1y agoEasy problem to solve. We just need to train an AI image classifier with highly annotated images of every single possible combination of road debris in every single country in the entire world. Shouldn't take longer than a month, right team? /s
- Zigurd 1y agoHey boss, should we set aside the grade crossing barrier recognizer for that?
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- mhh__ 1y agoIf it's not your money does it matter? I don't think it's fair to say he doesn't deliver anything e.g. he did cars, rockets, and now AI (the rate X are building out training capacity is genuinely astonishing) at the same time.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoYes it does matter. Money thrown away on his lies is money that isn’t invested on real projects.
- bilbo0s 1y agoI think the point is that if it's his money he's pissing away, then any other projects the money would have been spent on would have been equally dubious in any case. He's not going to, all of a sudden, become wise simply because he doesn't spend money on what he's spending money on. Did we give him wayyy too much free money via subsidies? Yes. But that was our mistake. And if we hadn't given it to him, we would have given it to some other scam artists somewhere or other. So even in the case of the counterfactual, we could expect a similar outcome. Just different scumbags.
- _aavaa_ 1y ago> And if we hadn't given it to him, we would have given it to some other scam artists somewhere or other. No we wouldn’t have. Not every dollar we give goes to scam artists. And there are a whole lot of industries and companies far less deceitful.
- panick21_ 1y agoOverall SpaceX is incredibly successful and Tesla is still reasonable successful. So money overall is hardly thrown away.
- lm28469 1y agoSuccess being defined here as "something that makes numbers go up in some capacity"
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- jjav 1y ago> Two more years guys, just give him two more years, a few more billion, a bit more political power and I promise he'll give you your fancy self driving toy. (Repeat from 2012 ad infinitum) The trillion dollar pay package will make it happen, that's what was missing.