He was never an innovative car maker, he’s never made a car in his life. He just had money.
Right. This article is far too generous.
Very weak article, giving him credit as a free speech absolutist. Is he really, or does he ban people that attack him? Alludes to us having self-driving due to his innovations. Really? Other automakers seem neck and neck with him, with Mercedes having passed a major milestone before him, quite recently.
Does he really have hyperloops to dream up and Mars colonies to plan, or is that just marketing drivel to appeal to certain types?
This is almost fanboying in disguise. If you simply read it through the lens of being pro-racism, it’s suddenly a praise piece.
edit: Oh, and it doesn’t even try to answer the question it asks in its own headline.
Haha, Lemmy hates Elon so much…
Does he really have hyperloops to dream up and Mars colonies to plan, or is that just marketing drivel to appeal to certain types?
Well Mars is for sure the plan. He absolutely wants to build a city on Mars, and he absolutely has made strides in that direction with the starship. I’m not sure I’d want to live in muskberg though…
Also to his credit, the world has electric cars now. It was Tesla that made that happen, it was not inevitable. The traditional auto makers were resisting electric vehicles really hard, they did not want to build them… They only started building them to not be left behind.
I agree that he seems to have turned into a white hot ball of crazy. But his companies have had a pretty big and quite positive impact. I mean, compare Tesla and Coca-Cola, which is really doing more for the world? Compare SpaceX and Raytheon, both of those companies make rockets, but Raytheon makes them exclusively with warheads… I just look at what musk has built and I don’t see the problem that everyone else here seems to.
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Mars colonies are a stupid fucking idea that scientifically literate people who understand basic facts about Mars know wont ever happen.
Well the person who knows the most about this topic is probably Robert Zubrin. Maybe you should read one of his books.
Is Mars habitation a possible goal? Yes, it’s definitely possible. There are certainly more worthy goals in space exploration, but there’s nothing about living on Mars that can’t be done.
Btw, your attitude is even more obnoxious than your post is valueless.
He didn’t make tesla, he bought it.
Sure, but the company he bought shares basically no resemblance with the current Tesla positive and negative. When he entered they had only the original roadster and that only in very small numbers
When he entered, there were no cars produced yet. Elon entered in '03, the first Roadster was produced in '08.
Considering he comes from apartheid mining wealth, I bet he’s been racist the whole time
Tire dust destroys the brain.
Ford was an innovative car maker, Musk bought an innovative car maker. They are not the same.
Ford was also racist though, so that connection is still valid.
The only actual connections are fame and racism. Kind of takes the air out of the headline imo
Hey, Ford might have been a Nazi sympathizer, but he knew how to make an engine in his kitchen and what people wanted in a car.
