Elon Musk

seems like we should have a thread on this guy, idk

Who he?

It's really an anagram of "Nole Skum."

Suk Lemon

ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space

it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered

seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?

His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.

You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"

if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT

dude owes his company's survival to gov programs but
says it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promise
to obliterate them all.

lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.

so hyperloop huh

people on twitter so mad. trying to understand why. i guess it boils down to:

1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people

2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there

3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude

still, i mean, it's pretty cool, right?

1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people

There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.

2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there

There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.

3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude

Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.

people on twitter so mad.

who do you follow?

i'm not getting that impression from all the tech ppl i follow

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

You might be right, Johnny, dunno. I was just trying to figure out why there was this explosion of contempt all over my twitter feed after the announcement.

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick

cool monorail bro

lol

i have a plan for a train that goes from boston to atlanta in 10mins, its called lasertrain and ill give you some cool drawings of it in a couple weeks, its ridiculous no one is building it btw it only costs $10

im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy

even i can afford that

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?

the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real

Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.

sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too

I meant 94% sorry.

To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.

i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it

maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk

LOL "elon musk"

This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

I wasn't scathing about Musk (I am about futurism in general) - if anything, he has a good track record on quixotic tech quests. I hope he's successful with this. I also hope there's a state left that can use it.

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

Knowing how CA politics works (and the CA rail projects are amazingly political), how would you expect a non-arrogant to even get traction with this?

I have no doubt that Musk will solve the Hyperloop technical issues. I very much have doubts about him navigating Sacramento.

I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.

Bad connotations...

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

Musk says the Hyperloop is best for distances of 900 miles. Beyond 900 miles, he thinks you're better off in a supersonic jet.

Lol

I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch

I have to say I rather like Elon Musk. He's made a massive pile of money and rather than sitting on it or managing it in mundane ways; he's making risky bets on thinks he's passionate about: Cars, Rockets, vacuum tubes.

Hyperloop seems a bit ridiculous to me, vacuum tube powered trains and trains in evacuated tubes are an old chestnut, almost as old as railways themselves. However, he's built a commercially viable private space programme and a car company* in the last ten years so anything is possible.

*Tesla isn't really a car company it's a power train company and if it is still making cars in 5 years I'll be surprised.

ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM

he might do this

is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?

iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism

xp I heard him speak and he seemed not crazy and to have some kind of social or at least environmental conscience, unlike the usual libertarian types, but maybe he's just better at hiding it

(I like him too fwiw and right now he seems one of the most likely "crackpot genius billionaires" to solve some hard problems which are overdue for solving, so I hope he carries on with that. Also hoping that one day I'll get to see/read his computer game that appeared in some 8-bit micro type-in listings mag in the 80s)

he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.

nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal

eh, I have no idea what I'm talking about. my point is that these things are tuned to overcome greater than *zero* resistance. doing that does involve the force they exert increasing momentarily (physics).

a car boot door is just one of those things that doesn't need to be automated imo, you can just shut it yourself

my last old banger had an "automatic" hand-brake that was just the biggest pain-in-the-ass, burned out a clutch trying to find the bite point with it while doing a hill-start, a manual hand-brake would have been so much better.

everything in a car doesn't need to be automated imo

Our kids are old enough now that it’s less of an issue but power tailgate was absolutely one of the reasons we upgraded a trim level, and we used it a lot when they were smaller.

my dad's old and got shoulder pain so closing the liftgate isn't fun for him

the only downside our autoliftgates is that sometimes the safety and locking systems are inscrutable and i cannot get the back up without like, turning off the car. but not always. i'm sure it's in the manual, and there's some toggle somewhere, but what a stupid pia.

in this old's opinion you should be able to open the liftgate while doing 75mph on I70 so your accomplice can push the body or contraband out the back without stopping or slowing

so I guessed the stock market would do two dumb things following the news that Tesla had bought some lidar units from a smaller vendor:
- that vendor's stock would jump for the day, then settle back down after people realized it's just a small company and there wasn't that much money involved
- the larger lidar vendors would then go up a couple days later, after people remembered lidar is a thing and some larger companies actually sell a lot of the tech

no way am I going to start regularly day trading but... yup

🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
out on the road today
i saw a deadhead sticker
on a cyber truck
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

(field report c/o t.volk) pic.twitter.com/U9gcKKjaq2

— joel berk (@pfcidb) May 8, 2024

obvious shop

Don’t stare too long or you’ll die of the cringe

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C53WgcFMVNf/?igsh=MXNjcHZ6ZWRrOTYwdw==

(xxp) don't look back you can never look back... because there's no rear visability in these things

my friend has a Tesla and just started using the self-driving and he brought me and another friend in the car while it drove us to a destination 5 minutes away.

it did ok, I never felt my life was in danger, but it definitely got confused once or twice and did stop dead in the middle of a lane because it temporarily didn't know where it was

it did have the wheel nag and he even talked about it but fuckin christ even w/ that I was a little on edge lol.

wish Musk would just go into a coma or something

wow i don’t know how i would handle that situation

“got confused once or twice and did stop dead in the middle of a lane because it temporarily didn't know where it was”

daaaah wes joe biden driving you ppl dont have a problem when it’s him daah

sorry i need a break from like everything

i think stopping in the middle of the road qualifies as putting yr life in danger

well in that moment, not so much as it was a road with no vehicles traveling on it on a weeknight. but certainly if it HAD been a weekend, yeah, different story.

anywho now that I appeased him w/ that I will never get in that car again lol

co-lol

other than the random stopping, I think they're also still good at turning on to wide shared bike/walking lanes parallel to the road

If cyclists and pedestrians don't want to be hit by cars, they should move to states without roads or pavement.

was this posted yet? (insider dunking from former employee)
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1cpyi2j/i_was_in_tesla_design_studio_back_in_20162017_i/

“Typically at Tesla the driver was considered the priority, they would only try to comply with the absolutely necessary standards required for everyone else sharing the road.”

well, yeah

Motorists do not have a constitutional right to not be run over. Seriously look it up guys.

Our cars are returning things to the way the Framers wanted it

tempted to gis “suv horse drawn carriage” but nah

Head of cybertruck production is out:
https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/tesla-head-of-cybertruck-manufacturing-out/

haha good luck to everyone

Tesla’s automotive business, including charging and manufacturing, as well as new product launches, took the biggest hit as Elon Musk appears to be transitioning Tesla away from its EV manufacturing roots to focus on autonomous driving products.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/

...lol

wonder how much extra tesla are having to pay the sacked supercharger team to come back after shitcanning them so ignominiously

elon musk really is the devil in the sense that people have made a deal with him

https://i.imgur.com/3YuyqfD.png

gotta have a based robot in there

Almost forgot not all his tweets are just quote-replying 'True.' or 'Interesting.' to whiny white supremacist grievances and completely made up allegations against political opponents.

concerning!

lol... now who would do such a thing?

Several vehicles at the Tesla factory in Fremont have been vandalized, according to the Fremont Police Department. On Monday at around 2:30 a.m., Fremont PD were dispatched to a location on the 45000 block of Fremont Boulevard where the factory is located.

There were reports, police said, of numerous vehicles having been vandalized. At the scene, officers learned that several parked vehicles had sustained damage to their tires.

Fremont PD is actively investigating the incident.

shoulda just put them all in carwash mode

Ooopsies. Funny thing is, it's not just the ex-employees who would be motivated to do this, but like the entire population of the Bay Area

Yeah, hopefully he puts up a big whiny stink about this and inspires even more people to vandalize teslas

Keep Bender's name out of your fucking mouth, Elon!

lol

The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.

After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk would affirm plans for a massive charging-network expansion.

The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html

that seems less like bad business acumen and more like someone on a bizarre drugsblasted business holiday

I don’t see why there has to be an exclusive binary there

DJP 1 Hunt3r 0

does he actually have a plan here or is he just winging it day to day?

some Roman Roy shit

of course he has a plan he wants a sassy robot

why care about charging business fundamentals when you're fun and mental

tha based business boi

this uh seems very illegal

I’ve been stating this for years 🙃autopilot disables 1 second before impact by design.

Anyone on the internal autopilot team would have known this as far back as 2020. https://t.co/SpMQC7uQx1

— Aiaddict (@Aiaddict1) May 7, 2024