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TechnicolorByte 10 hours ago

How’s that 2016 promise of LA to NYC autonomous driving goal going for Musk? Or his Cybercab venture going? And the decision to not use LIDAR in his vehicles? Or the Cybertruck’s dismal engineering and sales?

astrange 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Musk really is that good and nobody else is capable of building factories in the US, but the skills are in raising money and defeating NIMBYism. Raising money (and starting startups) involves a lot of lies and delusions which are not always adaptive skills.

He fell off when he lost his egirl and became a drug addict.

WalterBright 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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dsr_ 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Delivering 9 of 10 revolutionary things would, I agree, be amazing.

However...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

making 31 public predictions about his self-driving cars over 20 years and only being right about one of them is not so clever.

WalterBright 6 hours ago | parent [-]

He's still the most successful businessman in history, by far. Pretty good for a loser.