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Bruh the streets of San Francisco are packed with waymos carrying passengers today
Cybercabs are two-seater vehicles
Just two seats why? Has this so-called genius ever taken a cab with friends ever?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Tesla truck, driven by an employee, was headed to the company’s battery factory in Sparks, Nevada, [...]
WHERE else?
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.
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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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.
daily reminder that if you were only 10% as bad at your job as billionaires you'd be fucking fired in an instant.
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.
And the 40% of features that are there will only work half the time.
And be locked behind a subscription
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
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"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.
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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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
Appears not to be the case. I was curious about the full context, and that context is that it almost certainly didn't actually happen.
Hush, you ;)
But, yes, Marie Antoinette probably never said it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau very likely made it up.
Nonetheless, it’s prescient legend.
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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.
They'll do what every AI company does and have guys in India do the actual driving 'until the technology is ready', like how the Amazon grab and go stores were implemented.
That's how the robots at this same event were being run.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-beer-pouring-optimus-robots-are-not-autonomous-2000510899
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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.
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Add it to the list.
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.
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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.
You can carve that promise in granite "The Cyber Cab will be available in two years."
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.
I'll cut my fucking legs off and buy a wheelchair and roll my ass around before I ever get one of those.
Fuck Musk
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