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> But in 20 years they'll probably be much better. Historically when people play the "wait, in 20 years it'll be here" they're universally wrong. According to futurists from the 1990s we'd have the immortality pill, jet packs, Mars colonies, cancer cure, diabetes cure, extinct animal revival, etc by now. In 2035 Musk will be at retirement age, so why is he selling us on this concept now? Obviously, these guys want to push a product out soon and that product is flawed and not remotely ready for, say, Chicago traffic. I'm sure its wonderful on the Google campus, but that's not my world. I think Musk, being a business man, has an agenda here. Its to keep Tesla's largely failed experiment in electric cars going via hype and promises. Everything he says exists to raise the value of his company. The same way he ironically badmouthed "strong" AI recently to discredit robotic space mission funding that would challenge the manned launches SpaceX plans to profit from. I think its funny that Musk flip-flops on AI so easily. Good in cars, bad in space, when in reality the opposite is true. I think the more extremist Musk gets in the pressm the more we're seeing problems at Tesla and his other companies. Take at look a TSLA stock from a 1 year perspective, not to mention their $108m losses this past quarter and $300m loss in the past year. Things have been very bad there. Musk is just trying to keep it alive via hype and showmanship. Tesla is really starting to feel like Segway. Musk, for all his merits, is probably best as a space guy and should stick to that. Space needs big thinkers and big disruptors. This is a field where we need good AI and a cost cutting approach, not cars. Focusing on making the best car, in this day and age, is like focusing on making the best horse and buggy 100 years ago. Shame he is wasting so much talent and capital on this quixotic endeavor, especially considering Detroit and Tokyo have their own affordable electrics, if anyone is interested in buying them in the age of the BRICS nations demanding less oil and the price of oil falling to historic lows. |