dicknixon72
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I've said it before and I'll say it again - Tesla will be remembered for catalyzing the popularity of electric cars, but GM, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, VW, et al will be the ones to put them in people's garages...
Elon Musk thread
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Rich people are created. Not the millionaires, but the 100+ billionaires? Sure they are allowed by the elite. No way Gill Bates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the likes just came out of nothing. It's the same as with popstars. CardiB a sponataneous phenomenon? Give me a break. These guys are gofers. I find it difficult to estimate Elon Musk for he appears to be somewhat red pilled in some of his commentaries about cojona for example, but on the other hand with Neuralink and his technological realm he's fully essential of the globalist plans too. He seems to be a bit more the better guy than the others and not knowingly what's going on entirely, however this could be a show.
Lately I've been watching YouTube videos showing the cockpits of large airliners during takeoffs and landings, like this one:
It's fascinating to see how the airline transportation system works.
One thing I notice is that there is some inefficiency in how that system operates. A lot of time is lost running the checklists, waiting for a clearance, pushing back the plane, taxying to the runway, waiting for their turn to take off, etc. The spacing requirements to keep airplanes safely distant from each other creates a capacity restriction, especially around major airports.
Something like the Hyperloop, if it is a viable technology, would resolve a lot of those issues. With ground-based transportation, the prep times and spacing requirements are significantly compressed in comparison with airline travel. Many more people could be in motion at any one time than currently can with air travel. Also, the resources required to operate an inter-connected hyperloop system would be less during maintenance and operations mode than there is with airline travel. If hyperloop technology can be made to work, I think it will eventually, perhaps in about 50 years, greatly reduce the demand for travel by airplane. However, the trains might be restricted to continental travel, as I don't see how they could economically build those tubes across the oceans.
Of course, if they build Hyperloop stations like this in Democratic-run cities in the US, they would not be so pristine and orderly as depicted in that video.
It's fascinating to see how the airline transportation system works.
One thing I notice is that there is some inefficiency in how that system operates. A lot of time is lost running the checklists, waiting for a clearance, pushing back the plane, taxying to the runway, waiting for their turn to take off, etc. The spacing requirements to keep airplanes safely distant from each other creates a capacity restriction, especially around major airports.
Something like the Hyperloop, if it is a viable technology, would resolve a lot of those issues. With ground-based transportation, the prep times and spacing requirements are significantly compressed in comparison with airline travel. Many more people could be in motion at any one time than currently can with air travel. Also, the resources required to operate an inter-connected hyperloop system would be less during maintenance and operations mode than there is with airline travel. If hyperloop technology can be made to work, I think it will eventually, perhaps in about 50 years, greatly reduce the demand for travel by airplane. However, the trains might be restricted to continental travel, as I don't see how they could economically build those tubes across the oceans.
Of course, if they build Hyperloop stations like this in Democratic-run cities in the US, they would not be so pristine and orderly as depicted in that video.
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dicknixon72
Pelican
Those 'inefficiencies' are the result of a lot of lives over the years, including these...
The catalyst for the modern air traffic control system was this crash if I understand correctly:
Looks like Lucid is upping the electric car game. They appear to be directly challenging Tesla:
mashable.com
I drove the Lucid Air. It's the future of cars.
Test driving the $169,000 Lucid Air provided a deeper look at this Tesla-beating electric vehicle.
mashable.com
I was skeptical of Tesla for quite a while. In 2014 I visited India, decided humans were screwed, and that Tesla would never build a tuk-tuk or anything remotely of that scale. Their stated plan of beginning with luxury cars and then scaling down in price and up in quantity seemed fantastical.Looks like Lucid is upping the electric car game. They appear to be directly challenging Tesla:
I drove the Lucid Air. It's the future of cars.
Test driving the $169,000 Lucid Air provided a deeper look at this Tesla-beating electric vehicle.
Now the model 3 is still expensive, but the model 25k is on the horizon, and they have actually bought land for a factory in Bangalore, India, which is intended to build a mass-production vehicle that Indian people can actually buy. Tesla is crushing manufacturing and will actually be the Toyota of electric vehicles.
Not to mention the semi trucks, and everyone will want a cybertruck.
Lucid and Rivian are both the high-end luxury versions that won't scale like Tesla.
That may be true at first, but I guarantee that both will sooner or later try to introduce lower-priced models.
People who criticize Tesla's high valuation should laugh at Lucid. Market cap of $40B and it projects it'll only be up to 577 cars sold by the end of 2021.
I remember about five years ago when the consensus on this forum was that Tesla was headed for catastrophic, humiliating failure. Well, Tesla today announced a record quarterly net profit of $1 billion, and made and sold about 240,000 cars over the past three months. Also, Musk just got approval from Las Vegas to build all of his desired "Tesla's in tunnels" network in that city.
I'm not trying to give anyone a hard time, because at that time I also believe Tesla was in big trouble. I'll have to look more closely at what happened to help determine why I got it wrong.
I'm not trying to give anyone a hard time, because at that time I also believe Tesla was in big trouble. I'll have to look more closely at what happened to help determine why I got it wrong.
Anytime you have a huge new company, idea, etc, there's a question of "sounds nice, but will it actually stick, will it actually pass some fulcrum of challenges? Or, will it fizzle out before it can scale?"
Everything from the manhattan project, to early internet companies, bitcoin, etc, all went through that. It's the reason VC firms invest in many companies and not just 1-2; even they can't get it right. But if they invest in 50 companies, only one has to be Facebook.
Everything around the internet went through that -- Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix all could have easily tanked at some point. We saw stacks of companies crumple during the .com bust. That pain seems to have never gone away from investors' minds, even when tech is clearly now entrenched.
Tesla has the added difficulty of overcoming global manufacturing processes. I had the, "sounds nice, but I bet they collapse before they can scale, selling cars at Mercedes prices can only get you so far" sort of thought.
To me it seems like somewhere in 2019 with the Tesla Model 3 struggles is where they passed some ultimate test. Now they also have 30% gross margins(very high for a car company), and the Berlin and Austin factories are massive and will begin ramping up production at some point. The next couple of years for Tesla will be amazing.
Also, now they have more data on self-driving than all other competitors combined.
Elon Musk offered teen cash to take down his Twitter account
The page uses public data to track the location of the Tesla CEO’s private jet
Tech news site Protocol reported on Wednesday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has messaged the owner of a Twitter account that tracks his private jet, offering $5,000 if he takes the account offline.
The ‘Elon Musk's Jet’ account shows the movements of the businessman’s private plane, using bots that monitor publicly available air traffic data.
According to Protocol, the owner of the account, 19-year-old Jack Sweeney, received a message in fall last year from Musk, saying “Can you take this down? It is a security risk.”
Sweeney reportedly replied that he could remove it, but said it would cost Musk “a Model 3 only joking unless?” Musk then replied: “I don't love the idea of being shot by a nutcase” and offered Sweeney $5,000.
“Any chance to up that to $50k? It would be great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car maybe even a Model 3,” Sweeney responded, as quoted by Protocol. The billionaire said he would think about it but has not been back in touch.
When Sweeney told Musk where he was aggregating the data from, Musk responded: “Air traffic control is so primitive.”
Earlier this month, Musk tweeted that social media accounts tracking his movements were “becoming a security issue.”
Musk seems to be pushing the envelop a little bit. It is almost like he not only knows, but is sick and tired of the BS and is threatening the globalist elites of red pilling the masses. He supported the trucker strike in Canada, and IIRC he gave them $50,000. He was not invited to some EV propaganda presentation by Biden, which is pretty remarkable being he is the name in electronic vehicles. And now this, with Gab reminding him that he already knows the answer to his question.
Sadly, this is not a real tweet. Here's the real one:
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Looks like Elon was put in his place by the ADL.
That pinhead from the ADL must think he's the boss of everybody, they way he throws orders around. I hope Musk ignored him, or else mocked him.
I was listening to TDS today and they made a great point. Listen to Greenblatt himself and what he says. He just picks up the phone and calls people when they don't do what they like and he can change their ways. As if he is the most powerful man in the world. Well, maybe he is in fact the most powerful man in the world or at least one of them.
This is the exact same dialogue from the Sopranos, just a crappy reenactment by Great Value™ Hesh from the ADL:
starting at 0:30