Why would any of this faith be created given the continuous line of bullshit you've been fed?
Elon said he was going to build a private space launch company. He did.
Elon said he was going to build an electric car company. He did.
Elon said he was going to build a $35,000 electric car for the masses. He did.
Elon said he was going to build a worldwide satellite constellation for Internet access. He is. Rapidly.
Everything Elon has said he was going to do, he has. He hasn't always done it at the speed at which he said he would, but he does always get it done.
He (meaning his team / company) will eventually develop a fully self-driving car. No, it may not occur at the pace at which he proclaimed, but I have confidence it'll occur.
His achievements are remarkable but that doesn't mean that he should be treated like an infallible demi-god. Yes he's done some really cool stuff but that doesn't mean he should not be the subject of scrutiny.
Hyperloop was an idea and nothing more. He never said he was personally committed to developing that, hence third-parties working on it.
Interplanetary travel? Starship is actively going through testing and looks like it should be ready for moon launches around 2023, which is in two more years.
I don't consider him infallible, or a demi-god, but its hard not to admire the sheer work ethic of this man. He's legitimately trying, and by all accounts of people who know him, he's actively working on all these projects and also making considerable stride towards these goals. These are not easily achieved tasks.
He promised Earth point to point travel, which would require rocket safety to improve by a factor of a million.
He has been promising ridiculous things from Neuralink but with literally nothing to show for it.
Look at this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/88805317515594957...
Does that really indicate no personal commitment? He touts that he's received government permission to build a Hyperloop, NY to DC in 29 mins.
We didn't get to the safety levels that airliners currently have by sitting down with books and, we got there by having the NTSB thoroughly analyze each incident.
Humans are terrible drivers, so each day we delay the transition to self-driving also costs lives, it's just that human traffic fatalities are less visible since society generally accepts that level of death.
It's not even his idea, Robert Goddard came up with it decades ago.
He also threw money into it, and then backed out, saying he was too busy.
And now he's tweeting about applying for and obtaining permission to build on the East Coast.
So, there's several issues there. Not to mention the more general issue - that it offers the same benefit as Maglev with massively inflated costs and far less comfortable passenger experience.
All of these are still in progress/development in various ways. I don't remember him ever saying they were complete (or even over with).
Thank uncle sam for putting in the effort to create the markets that Elon plays in.
The Federal Government has consistently funded some of our most important projects. The Human Genome Project, for instance.
He's not unlike Steve Jobs. They both possessed enough knowledge and technical acumen to understand what they're being told about disparate subjects, but they may not have the in-depth knowledge that a Jim Keller would. And despite my enormous respect for Keller, he's not an Elon Musk or a Steve Jobs. Jim's a craftsman at heart, and that comes through in interviews with him. Musk and Jobs are true visionaries.
This is not genius-level but is the blending of two skills, a charismatic Administator, who can temporarily suspend disbelief, and a Fundraiser. Each of those takes a ton of work. I'm not minimizing Musk's dilligence in any way, but there are lots of people who can do those activities at high levels. The difference is that most people can't survive their tweeting SEC violations while stoned.
True, as long as this excludes everything he still says he is going to do but hasn't yet done. But of course, he will.
So if he ever doesn’t accomplish something we’ll never know because maybe it just hasn’t happened yet.
He also said they would have a solar roof as cheap as a normal roof and that the new roadster would hover with rocket engines. Let’s see if that happens.
That is true for absolutely everyone in the world.
Tesla will never achieve safe, certified level 5 autonomous self driving with the current generation of vehicles, without either a fuckton more CPU power or better sensors(as in some proper high res depth sensors).
On this I will bet. Come back at me in 5 years. He'll either have to bite his pride and put some sort of re-branded lidar on, or some decent stereo camera rigs.