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

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Damn! pic.twitter.com/4Fr828loCQ

— Taylor Ogan (@TaylorOgan) September 15, 2021

JUST DRIVE YOUR OWN CAR.

Disappointing that it didn’t slam into a pylon.

oooOooof

BREAKING: Elon Musk Rushes To Aid Of Overturned Tesla Pinned On Top Of Child https://t.co/azxHMq4Wta pic.twitter.com/nHea9mXPhm

— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 17, 2021

My friend's Tesla just had to be in the shop for three weeks, thanks to supply/equipment shortages. This is not its first prolonged service visit, either. His wife jokes that it's been in the shop more than it's been in the carport.

Oh, I was telling him about some of those videos upthread, especially the Edmunds guy who got car sick with the model Plaid (or whatever it's called) and he conceded that his Tesla sometimes makes him a little ill, too. I wonder if there is something to that, psychologically, with all electric cars, where for some people the near silence throws off your body/brain connection? Like the way some people need to be behind the wheel to avoid car sickness, or at the least how looking ahead where you're going is key to avoiding nausea. Maybe some people have been conditioned to need the sound of a motor or acceleration? That's a feature some EV et al. cars have, right? To *add* some engine noise?

Anyway, my buddy is literally the first and only Tesla owner I've met that is willing to say bad things about the car and its performance. I'll be curious if he sticks with it when his lease is up.

I wonder if there is something to that, psychologically, with all electric cars, where for some people the near silence throws off your body/brain connection?

lol buddy WHATTTT

Is that so far fetched? I don't mean it as something wrong with EVs, just something wrong with our brains. Like the way Teslas et al. offered the update back at launch that made cars creep forward a little with your foot off the "gas," or the way some cars offer the option of piping the sound of acceleration *into* the interior, through the speakers. Just like being on a big boat, where you might not actually see it or feel it moving or rocking but your brain certainly recognizes it, which can lead to sea sickness. Isn't that what the tester in the Edmunds video (is that upthread?) hypothesized after the Plaid made him motion sick in a way that even being in the backseat of a Formula 1 car did not?

ppl seem to think the regen breaking is the main culprit, can be too herky jerky, tho im sure the insane acceleration cld do it too

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— stricture (@bog_beef) September 18, 2021

But the real issue here is psychological: Musk has learned, again and again, that the secret to winning is to play chicken and never flinch. Whatever issue finally wrecks Tesla, and there's a good chance it's driving automation, Musk will drive directly into it at top speed.

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) September 20, 2021

Coupla blind squirrels here

“Musk thinks Peter is a sociopath, and Peter thinks Musk is a fraud and a braggart.” https://t.co/40tK77p8KA

— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) September 20, 2021

i burst out laughing at that

spidermen pointing at each other

https://t.co/7KXV29jrAk pic.twitter.com/J7JHA01thx

— Sandy Johnston 🚰 (@sandypsj) September 20, 2021

No need to listen to this podcast episode honestly but god this clip from Rogan & Musk slayed me

The world’s most popular podcaster and the world’s richest man have the world’s stupidest conversation. This week on Double Threat @scharpling @julieklausner pic.twitter.com/IspE1cTYPJ

— DOUBLE THREAT (@DoubleThreatPod) September 20, 2021

using a race car steering wheel but not knowing that in race cars they have a much higher turning ratio, just musk stuff

Tried it and... the yoke, as implemented, is one of the dumbest things Tesla has ever done.

There I said it.

It'd be different if lock-to-lock was < ~120 degrees or so (you know, the point of a yoke normally), but on a standard steering rack this is just flat out stupid.

— Jason Hughes (@wk057) September 20, 2021

Consumer Reports paints a particularly forehead-slapping picture of this stupid thing: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars-driving/tesla-steering-yoke-little-benefit-potential-safety-pitfalls-a1034204120/

the steering wheel is a crutch inhibiting full self-driving roulette

Tesla swapped the tried-and-true round steering wheel for a flat-bottomed, rectangular yoke reminiscent of what pilots use to steer an airplane.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but pilots never do a hand-over-hand-over-hand turn, do they?

Clip from China of a $TSLA Model 3, evidently equipped with the latest and greatest safety technology. My guess is the 4D dojo supercomputer recognizes that the pedestrian dummy is not a human and therefore sees no reason to perform evasive maneuvers. pic.twitter.com/R1mQqbxIy9

— degen (@finance_degen) September 20, 2020

if your computer can't suss out the dummies, you'll be vulnerable to wagon train robbery

it appears the pedestrian-recognition neural net core is actually just a copy of freeware classic Truck Dismount.

tbf it let them shrink the size of the chip dramatically, leaving room for the forthcoming bong-holder add-on.

Maybe the dummy just needs its own chip.

poor robot Beatle

hate to say it, but Elon Musk stealing a bit of Thiel’s playbook and parlaying it to stock market success is funny in the context of their rivalry. absolutely both megalomaniacal dorks, but Musk’s grift is barely opaque after a quick look and Thiel thinks he’s truly subversive while being such a caustic shithead

I saw peter thiel in a park in Beverly Hills a couple of weeks back. He seemed to have joined a friend who had kids. He stood next to my while I pushed my kid on the swings and was confused about whether there was a correct way to face the kid on the swing. Not a joke.

that was a cusp that affected the future of humankind

You should have had your kid kick that Elizabeth Bathory motherfucker in the head.

max said broadly the same thing haha

The joys of living on the bleeding edge- a thread:

On the way to dinner tonight my @Tesla literally locked up IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY! A message Ive never seen before popped up saying "Vehicle May Not Restart: Service required"

Well thats no good I think... pic.twitter.com/Q4Dm492y4Z

— Pooch @Repkord (@repkord) September 23, 2021

oops

Just unplug it, wait 30 seconds, then plug it in again.

Zap the PRAM

There are other EVs out there and more to come. Eventually Tesla will run out of fools.

pic.twitter.com/hlLtyraCF5 https://t.co/BXefM0tEci

— literally a grrl ghost 🎃 (@GrrlGhost) September 24, 2021

the prophecy is fulfilled https://t.co/Rg6xLSi6Z8 pic.twitter.com/ULDi9suDAy

— Scott Chegg (@buckfastbadlad) September 24, 2021

😭😭not apartheid Clyde pic.twitter.com/HxfRXfqfAk

— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) September 24, 2021

apartheid clyde

I'm curious to what the azealiabanks account actually said now, because it appears to have gotten it suspended.

TOWSON 1-2 N CHARLES ST & W TOWSONTOWN BL - VEHICLE FIRE. TESLA ON FIRE. REQUEST LARGE CAPACITY WATER TANKER, HAZMAT UNIT, AND FOAM UNIT DUE TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE ON FIRE. ROAD IS BLOCKED #BCOTRAFFIC @LVFC30 @ProvidenceVFC29 @BaltCoFire pic.twitter.com/hJfPyTcwfx

— Baltimore Co. Volunteer Firefighter’s Association (@BaltCoVolFire) October 1, 2021

hmmm

https://i.imgur.com/I3RHZ0x.png

Guy wearing a spacex shirt walked in to loudly observe “it’s like if you pressed pause during a scene in a play” pic.twitter.com/4N06zmkFBb

— ethnic steve (@EthnicSteve) October 17, 2021

HAs S HE HAD PLASTIC S

https://elonmusk.today/

The new Tesla is great except it randomly, strongly and inexplicably brakes when it definitely shouldn't between one and five times an hour.https://t.co/3ZcrvD6HIx pic.twitter.com/X1gNGs2Rtb

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 26, 2021

my boyfriend is great but he randomly, strongly and inexplicably cheats on me when he definitely shouldn't between one and five times an hour.

tbf that tweet makes it seem like the review understates major problems when really its pretty negative and recommends against buying

And, dear reader, I'm sorry to say, this first one will not be good. The Model Y is a phenomenal achievement in many ways, a great blend of range and practicality and even performance mixed with a suite of unique features that are as useful as they are distinct. But, as it stands, you absolutely should not buy one. Let me elaborate on the why.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/2021-tesla-model-y-review/

rode in a friends tesla on a 5hr road trip a few months ago (i dont remember what model they have), and the constant sudden braking was infuriating. it was a lot of 55mph rural roads, and the brakes would automatically activate any time the car passed anywhere near any stop sign, incl ones on intersecting secondary roads we passed, as well as lots of other times on the open road for seemingly no reason. it was really annoying.

jesus

wouldn't even buy a self-driving sack cart off this cunt.