130 points

All he’s doing is making worse trains and busses. This isn’t innovative. Its a waste of fucken time. Make trains and busses.

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Respectfully, I don’t want to see any trains or buses made under his guidance.

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20 points

Fun fact, there’s a Tesla semi truck

It’s very explosive

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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.

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Technically, it’s far less explosive than a gasoline powered vehicle. However, batteries are very hard to extinguish if they catch fire.

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The Tesla truck, driven by an employee, was headed to the company’s battery factory in Sparks, Nevada, […]

WHERE else?

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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.

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has no talents

His ideas inspire awe, just not the type he assumes we have.

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1 point

I was going to give you the bad news, but apparently, Tesla didn’t build the Giga Train

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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.

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We just have to apply Leon math. He says 2-3 years, so that’s 7 to 10 in reality. It will also cost 5x what is expected and be missing 60% of features at launch. Plus it’ll have new features, like it will have a steering wheel and peddles and require driver input every 15 miles or so.

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29 points

And the 40% of features that are there will only work half the time.

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30 points

And be locked behind a subscription

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55 points

Cybercabs are two-seater vehicles

Just two seats why? Has this so-called genius ever taken a cab with friends ever?

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That’s hilarious. He gets rid of the driver, so now instead of an extra seat there’s 3 less seats compared to a conventional cab.

This guy is so out of touch that he doesn’t even know people that could tell him that.

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14 points

Which is impressive since itd be the first place my mind would go to for space utilization, mind you I dont think this stupid cab will ever be a working thing outside of prototypes but still.

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8 points

Don’t worry I’m sure he’ll get loads of investments for it and get a city to shut down their public transport in some way before he cancels the project.

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26 points

Friends? What does that mean?

Dude famously hates being around other people, that’s why he hates transit so much. I’m sure in his mind it makes perfect sense.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Yes let us create the Daemonculaba!

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43 points

“Always your car,” is corporate speak for “you will be liable for whatever it does.”

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