As we reported last week, the “unsupervised” Robotaxis spotted on January 22 were all being followed by trailing Tesla vehicles with safety monitors inside.
Genius. Musk invented a taxi service that needs 2 cars and 2 drivers per ride.
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It is easier to get the public to accept they don't have a safety driver involved at all with this middle step.
This is the same CEO who has promised “full self-driving next year” every year since 2018.
This is just plain lying by electrek...he started promising "self-driving next year" long before that.
You can go on the SpaceX website right now and book a trip to Mars for 2026.
No way I checked, this is real. Unbelievable
Don't make me miss the good timeline like that
And The Music Man just announced this will be a monthly service to make stonk go up.
“The market will bear the cost”
I don't think it was next year every year before that?
It was just very soon before that.
He may have used "end of year" before 2018...I'm pretty sure he promised "coast-to-coast" FSD capabilities "by end of the year" back in 2016
Oh turns out my timelines are off, I thought the coast to coast promise was 2019.
It was in 2016, for the end of 2017.
"3 months maybe, 6 months definitely" is still one of my favorite quotes from his timeline estimates.
Not the "two weeks" for months on end?
It's one thing to continuously move dates like that, but the uniqueness of giving a 3 month window and saying it with such confidence is very amusing to me.
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I can't wait for Musks dominoes to fall. Once Tesla investors realize their investment is worthless all his other companies he has cross leveraged everything with will all list start collapsing and the whole thing comes down.
That would be devastating to the markets, and it hasn't even address the AI bubble which is going to pop and the biggest economic downfall and depression in American history begins.
Tough times ahead no matter what, but the sooner Trump is gone they can start rebuilding.
The problem is that Tesla has become a self fulfilling prophecy. Not in any ability to actually make the products they advertise, but in making investors money. So many people have invested so much that the stock price now effectively describes investor’s aspirations for money, not their faith in Tesla. This has been true for some time. The value of the stock has been largely divorced from the reality of production targets, new products, or even the endless controversies.
Once Tesla investors realize their investment is worthless
that's going to take a long time
Next he will sell diagnostic machine that only needs one drop of blood.
Anything to distract from the fact that they're a car company selling fewer and fewer cars.
Ah but now they're going to be a robot company selling fewer and fewer robots instead.
And an ai company with no ai product
But they can't sell fewer than zero! Egads, Tesla has found a way to never shrink their business anymore!
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Tesla isn't a car company, it's a techbro company. They don't sell cars, they sell the idea that any day now they'll achieve a technological breakthrough.
But it's becoming obvious that won't happen, so they now pivot to robots. Selling the idea that they'll achieve a breakthrough in that space soon.
Those buying the products aren't the target audience, the investors are. The customers are just useful cattle.
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Herr Musk is a lying nazi, and anyone holding Tesla is a fool and will get what they deserve
I’m not so sure that everyone holding Tesla is going to get what they deserve anymore.
I agree they should get it, though.
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Anyone else feel like Tesla is actually how Elon is being paid for being the one to make twitter fascist and the DOGE bs? Like the majority of shareholders don't actually gaf how the company does and the billion dollar compensation package had nothing to do with Tesla other than it being the vehicle through which the payment was made?
I don’t see how. This is just a continuation of what he was already doing, facilitated by a board of his friends and relatives.
Even worse I have to say I’m not totally against it. All too often ceos get excessive pay regardless of their results. While I haven’t looked in detail not at the history, the claim is these are only for Tesla meeting some extremely ambitious milestones and the payment is stock. Certainly his previous ridiculous allay was in stock and Tesla had some extraordinary growth. If the stock doesn’t go up, then he should never receive that wealth
If it’s truly contingent on the company growth and the board doesn’t throw him a life preserver, that’s not entirely bad. Excessive yes. Extremely excessive. Excessively excessive. But more execs need to have their wealth gated on actual results
The thing that makes it more suspect IMO is that shareholders voted for it, not just the board. Courts specifically said they didn't need to but shareholders (dominated by large account holders) still voted for it.
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