All he’s doing is making worse trains and busses. This isn’t innovative. Its a waste of fucken time. Make trains and busses.
Respectfully, I don’t want to see any trains or buses made under his guidance.
Fun fact, there’s a Tesla semi truck
My roomie is a trucker. He has laughed so much at the Tesla semitruck because it kind of fails at everything a truck is meant to do.
Technically, it’s far less explosive than a gasoline powered vehicle. However, batteries are very hard to extinguish if they catch fire.
Any fires are the product of a technical malfunction, and those are very easy to either mitigate, and, especially, engineer beyond.
Gasoline will always be flammable, and using it as a fuel source will always present certain concerns and risks. Measured against battery technology, however, it’s kind of a no-brainer as to which is much more safe.
Even Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cells (unquestionably more explosive than any battery or gasoline powered vehicle) are now technically safer than gasoline powered vehicles, just because of their amazing containment pods for the hydrogen fuel. Again, this sort of thing is just an engineering problem, not a problem with developing new resources and/or new techniques of harnessing their energy output.
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WHERE else?
Don’t worry, he doesn’t supply any guidance, only orders to orders who then do the things.
This man has no talents to speak of.
has no talents
His ideas inspire awe, just not the type he assumes we have.
I was going to give you the bad news, but apparently, Tesla didn’t build the Giga Train
Also, BYD has made some really nice electric buses that are already in use in Los Angeles starting in 2015. His offering is not even competitive with options from 9 years ago.
Anyone else expecting a $100,000 “RoboBeast” in eight years and no mention of the $30,000 version ever again?
Like all techbros, Elon wants to paint himself as some kind of visionary genius. Instead they’re all just anti-regulatory right-wingers who just poorly regurgitate better people’s ideas. Elon’s already run this playbook before so we know he’s gonna do it again.
This is what I don’t get, I can also just say ‘visionary’ things by just opening any sci-fi book and pointing at a random page and claiming that I want to make that.
The hard part isn’t envisioning cool sci-fi concepts like self driving cars, colonized planets, ai servants, and life like VR. The hard part is actually doing them.
Actually paying attention to the sci-fi you’re consuming would give you an advantage over Musk. He says he loves the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a series which spends a lot of time mocking corporate executives and corporate marketing. It’s also a series where every AI is either an asshole, malfunctioning or both.
He also thinks the main character in Blade Runner is named Bladerunner despite the fact that Deckard’s name is said like 10 times in the movie.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner
And there are robotaxis in some places already, like airports (Germany?).
Bet he’s just spewing this shit to cover up for something else, like they all do.
Yes let us create the Daemonculaba!
Cybercabs are two-seater vehicles
Just two seats why? Has this so-called genius ever taken a cab with friends ever?
Right beside full self driving? Is this like the classic “fusion is just 5 years away”?
Hey, at least we have actually accomplished (edit: net-positive) fusion. 10-20 years before the first commercial plant comes online, but fusion is a technology which now exists. This is extremely awesome. Honestly, I never thought I’d see it. But, it’s here, it exists, and now the distance between today and when the first power plant comes online is just a matter of scaling the tech upwards.
Full, autonomous self-driving cabs - especially from Tesla - on a massive scale… not so much.
“Always your car,” is corporate speak for “you will be liable for whatever it does.”
The robot taxi and the bus thing both depend on FSD working well, so maybe they’ll be ready in like 20 or 30 years.
Although skeptical, and especially disliking Elon musk, this is merely speculative. It could take five years, or it could take 25 years. We just don’t know yet. However, unlike fusion, we’ve never achieved FSD yet. But, like fusion, I’m sure we will.
Just not yet, and, I hope, not a product of an Elon Musk company.
Well according to Elon FSD is going to be ready “next year” for the last 8 years or so. I wish he would swallow his pride, admit he was wrong, and start using lidar and other types of sensors.
I love that at least some of the press is finally calling Elon on his bullshit. The ArsTechnica review of this event was particularly delicious.
Add it to the list.
Well FSD is just right around the corner after all!
But in all seriousness, if his shitty candidate and party he endorses wins, they honestly probably will be on the roads in a few years time.
daily reminder that if you were only 10% as bad at your job as billionaires you’d be fucking fired in an instant.
If things are at least progressing somewhat he predicts next year. For Musk to say 2-3 years means the project has hit a brick wall and they’re desperate.
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I don’t think it’s hilarious. I think he got his name in the news again, and here we are talking about him.
Not all publicity is good publicity when you’re desperate for the world to love you like Elon is.
It was two minutes, five minutes ago
Turkish will get that sausage long before the first Musktaxi is for sale.
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“Preorders start now! Only currency allowed is Dark MAGAcoin” -Musk probably
