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
And The Music Man just announced this will be a monthly service to make stonk go up.
“The market will bear the cost”
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.
It is easier to get the public to accept they don’t have a safety driver involved at all with this middle step.
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I followed a link in that article to this one: Tesla didn’t remove the Robotaxi ‘safety monitor’ – it just moved them to a trailing car:
When Musk says there’s “no safety monitor in the car,” he’s technically telling the truth, the monitor is in a different car, following right behind. But the implication that Tesla has achieved true unsupervised autonomy is misleading at best.
Tesla has achieved remote control driving. It’s the only taxi service that has 2 cars per fare.
Double your traffic congestion, or your money back!
. . . or not, since I’ve never heard of Tesla voluntarily refunding anything.
Anything to distract from the fact that they’re a car company selling fewer and fewer cars.
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.
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.
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.
My pet theory is that Musk was installed at Tesla by the Saudis (who apparently have a bit of money) to destroy the very idea of electric cars by putting out as bad and overpriced a product as possible. Despite his best efforts, people still want the goddamn things.
