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.
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.
Cybercabs are two-seater vehicles
Just two seats why? Has this so-called genius ever taken a cab with friends ever?
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!
“Always your car,” is corporate speak for “you will be liable for whatever it does.”
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.
I’d argue that it wasn’t really “net-positive”. Certainly it was a positive energy gain, but it took way more energy to create the fusion than just the input energy. There is a ton of efficiency losses to create the input energy, which is defined by the energy in the laser beam that triggers the fusion. A lot of energy is also used to maintain confinement during the reaction.
I would like the term net positive to be more inclusive of all of the recurring energy used to support the fusion. It’s fair to not include the energy used to construct the machines, but anything that would need to be put in to a fusion plant each reaction to get out energy should be considered.
In the video, when he’s talking about the robot Optimus, he claims that at scale this will cost $20-30K and goes on to say “this will be the biggest product ever of any kind” and “everyone of the 8 billion people one earth will want their Optimus buddy”.
Dude. Most people on this planet can barely afford a $1,000 smart phone.
“Let them eat cake”
— another famous rich person, shortly before she got what she deserved.
“Let them take ketamine.”
“this will be the biggest product ever of any kind” and “everyone of the 8 billion people one earth will want their Optimus buddy”.
Dude. Most people on this planet can barely afford a $1,000 smart phone.
First, there are a shockingly high number of people walking around with a $1k smart phone, but I think that speaks more to people buying on credit.
Sadly if a company can replace a worker with a $30k robot, he won’t be wrong that lots would be sold. I have serious doubts these will be replacing humans in the short term.
The shockingly high number of people with high end phones are still, by global standards, pretty damn rich.
All Tesla shareholders and twitter users asked to hold their breath until then.
The stock dropped 7% so I guess not everyone is
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.
Add it to the list.
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.
These things and the trucks are so damn ugly… Who the hell watched 80s sci-fi and was like “Yes! Give me that aesthetic.”
Not even good 80s sci-fi. That truck looks like it came from a low-budget Star Wars or Mad Max ripoff.
Right? That’s pretty much what I’ve been saying: they look like a fiberglass shell on top of an El Camino in a bad 1980s straight-to-video Mad Max ripoff.
It’s exactly how you’d expect a car designed by a boy whose development was arrested in 1980–when his parents divorced—would look. It’s the perfect evidence that he’s, basically, a nine year old with billions of dollars.
I used to compare it to the Homer car from The Simpsons, except the Homer did everything it was advertised to do. It was just stupid. That makes the Homer better than the Cybertruck.
They are head-turning though. Not in a good way, but head-turning. One drove by me yesterday and I instantly turned my head because look at that ugly fucking thing and now let me see the idiot driving it.
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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