Sorry to drag the topic down with this.
Regulators accuse Tesla’s Elon Musk of securities fraud - bbc
Elon Musk and Tesla Settle With S.E.C. in Fraud Case - NYT
Elon Musk reaches deal over tweets about taking Tesla private - BBC
I did not see that comming. The SpaceX fan in me would hope he spends less time on Tesla and more on SpaceX, but that is very unlikely - he will probably work as usual, just with different powers/title/oversight.
Still ridiculous to get so much shit for a tweet, when a certain other well known public figure cough can tweet the most absurd bullshit without consequence. Oh well.
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One of the most vocal Tesla shorts have just flipped. Guess this means Tesla had a significantly better quarter than people expected.
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Elon Musk unveils prototype high-speed LA transport tunnel
Looks a bit rubbish to me. But it is a prototype proof of concept, which will get better. Should be a smooth ride though, couldn’t that of been got right the first time when its such an important critical feature. Lets see how this evolves over the coming years.
Speed managed 49mph, getting to 150 its going to be pretty scary if its not smooth ride at that speed.
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Elon Musk: IN 3D… it is infinitely expandable.
Napoleon: You wish to dig a tunnel under a tunnel while the above is in use? I have no time for this nonsense.
The way you beat traffic is to have less cars on the road, seeing that they stay unused throughout most of their lifetime.
But at least it is not actually a vehicle on a platform vehicle, referred to some media outlets as the “skate”. Why did the artists think that “put the vehicle on another vehicle” was wise is beyond me. So the criticism by someone like Thunderf00t was understandable:
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The skates were a better idea, in my opinion. We have a similar system to this near Cambridge, although it’s above ground and designed for specially kitted buses. They’re still not especially comfortable because the guide wheels have basically no suspension, and they don’t really go any faster than regular traffic.
Guess who now has a statue of a Muskox named after him?
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It’s a tunnel. Hardly a revolutionary concept. Putting trains in it would be far more efficient.
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Favorite yet.
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You guy check out the prices of model 3 !
Dude. This is actually buyable. Expensive for ordinary person sure, but for the class it is, its comparable to gas cars.
Man this might lead to massive changes in… well everything.
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musk is a cuckold who got rinsed by multiple gold diggers. he’s only the guy financing risky endeavors, he’s not the engineer, so while i can admire his business acumen and gambling abilities, it’s clear he’s no genius. he’s just a regular rich guy.
the geniuses are the guy doing the hard maths and physics calcultions, and the engineering required for his vehicles to work.
Yet i have to give him credit for pushing something that was being stalled for decades by others.
All of them had the means, all of them could have done it. Yet only few bothered to try.
He did realized things that might, in the long run benefit all, not just rich.
I am on the same side of fence as you. And in my opinion, from all the rich guys one could criticize, there are much worthier targets.
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Not that he’s flawless, and not to fangirl too hard here, but there is a serious lack of insight demonstrated in some of these comments.
I can name several reasons.
How many models of car are exactly the same dimensions? Having a precise (to some degree) fit to the tunnel is undoubtedly required for the design, or else, those guide wheels on the sides wouldn’t be in use. If you have a single oversized cart/skate/whatever, then the vehicle rests on top as that device handles the rest.
How many cars can reach 150mph? Not that it’s impossible to get around, but my truck has a governor at 100mph that kicks the speed back down to 90mph once reached, before reengaging the transmission. If the skate is designed to push the heaviest of civilian vehicles to 150mph, then all vehicles are able to reach the same velocity and you suffer less/no congestion.
How many vehicles have smart driving technology that functions equally in all situations? One of the biggest hurdles such an idea will face is usage prior to the adoption of the required technology by all makes and models. If the skates are all uniform in their activity, you don’t have to worry about people trying to take “dumb” vehicles down, or a different company’s faulty AI crashing in your tunnels.
I’m sure there are more, but you should get some idea.
As an American living in Japan right now, I can testify that trains can be wonderful things. They can also be incredibly irritating. They never seem to stop quite as close to my destination as I’d like, and there’s no way for me to bring my vehicle along with me (and there are plenty of reasons to want to bring your vehicle with you, including but not limited to simply passing through the city with no intent of stopping).
I read an article some time ago that was interviewing an engineer that used to work at SpaceX. You are far, FAR underestimating Musk’s intelligence if you think he’s just a playboy throwing money around: he often has incredibly specialized knowledge on many/most aspects of the projects he works on, and asks questions of his engineers that the interviewee claimed to be completely unexpected of someone outside the field.
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I’m pretty sure johncage is just being a bad troll at this point.
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Hai, I just had the misfortune of not catching up on the forums until after this thread.
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Tesla Autonomy Day event