Elon Musk needs his own thread because he's in every damn thing/positive Elon Musk

Can't imagine what Woodward’s next book will reveal.

 

Of all the things COVID related to be concerned about with trump….sending a couple of point of care pcr testing machines with a throughput of 10 to 12 samples per hour isn’t one of them…particularly on the “Americans are dying” front. The real scandal is that it made it much easier and more efficient for Putin to manage his inner circle by having near portable PCR testing available wherever Putin traveled around Moscow or Russia.

 

I don't think it's a matter of anyone 'eating crow', (whatever THAT means... I've never been too sure). I just find it strange that, of all the things we DO have been done by Trump and Putin, THAT'S the one that completely unbelievable.

I mean, this is the guy we're talking about...



Frankly the guy's a complete nutjob and I can WELL imagine him thinking that getting a couple of women to piss on a bed to compromise someone who was well connected to many people in the hierarchies of US society would be a pretty normal thing to do.

As I said, Trump's neither here nor there in this.

 

I don't think a British person can relate to the scale of corruption in American politics. It's ingrained at every level. If a UK MP gets his lawn mown for free its a national scandal.

I speak as a Brit who lived in the US for 27 years.

 

How many men in Congress have been credibly accused of illegal sexual misconduct? How many were reelected?

It's like the NFL, no one cares so long as the masses have their bread and circus.

 

The induction charging shows some thinking about the eventual infrastructure, but they're counting chickens before they hatch here. The most important thing is the driving, and the style and colors of the cars don't matter if they can't do that. Tesla robotaxies will need at least 10 years to get to where Waymo is now, if they ever do.

 

Musk will end up rolling out Robotaxis with human drivers.

 

You mean I get to ride in one of these at some point???

 

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! pic.twitter.com/6R5YatSVJX

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2024

Corruption is completely normal in British politics, and the media also. That's why you get stories about Starmer accepting a free coat or whatever, but then nothing about the government contracts that Labour or the Tories throw their friends way when they're elected.

 

The human drivers will be doing so virtually from the Philippines for pennies on the dollar. And if their delay in rear view camera is any indication, it'll be a disaster and lots of people will get hurt and die.

 

If taxis are so profitable, it makes no sense for Tesla to sell the cars. Is it a way to pass on liability to individuals?

 

Take a wild guess,

 

So a piece of technology, (which I'm guessing Musk had next to nothing to do with), works as designed?

Yeah, I feel the same way every time my TV switches on when I press the button.

The industrial levels of corruption the tories indulged in, (which included tens of billions of dollars of corrupt contracts and backhanders for them and their friends), are in another league to anything labour has done or is ever LIKELY to do.

 

Oh that could DEFINITELY work on a commercial basis. It would almost impossible NOT to make money on that basis as the cars could be operated 24hrs a day apart from charging and servicing, (particularly if they're electric).

The problem is the underlying technology which just doesn't work as it would need to.

 

He's the lead engineer at SpaceX. The company as it is would not exist without him. What they're doing is revolutionary.

My sweet summer child, the Tories did nothing new, and nothing Labour aren't already looking to do too. It's not by some cosmic coincidence that suddenly they want to cover fields in overcast England with solar farms while ignoring nuclear. They're settling their debts, just as the Tories did with the hotel schemes for their mates who own Serco and the like.

 

Musk is not an engineer.

And no engineer would create a car with no safety measures, in this case no steering wheel and pedals. That's just insane.

 

He is not the lead engineer. He is the visionary, no doubt, but he has a lot of very capable engineers that believe in his vision and he has the money to carry it out.

 

Chief engineer, I should say. There's a decent Reddit page (ew) that collates some of the things his colleagues (and perhaps more insightfully) his former colleagues say about his work at SpaceX:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLoun...ce_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/

 

And Frank Sinatra was Chairman of the Board. Doesn't mean shit.

 

Or maybe those geeky robot bartenders controlled with a joystick

 

I don't know if this is right but this guy says that the Cybertruck hasn't been crash tested...



I'm gonna guess and say, yeah, that sound about right