Hyperloop was an idea and nothing more. He never said he was personally committed to developing that, hence third-parties working on it.
Interplanetary travel? Starship is actively going through testing and looks like it should be ready for moon launches around 2023, which is in two more years.
I don't consider him infallible, or a demi-god, but its hard not to admire the sheer work ethic of this man. He's legitimately trying, and by all accounts of people who know him, he's actively working on all these projects and also making considerable stride towards these goals. These are not easily achieved tasks.
I admire the work he does. But he oversells. FSD is one example. He has been promising it for half a decade and people have paid him substantial amount of money for a feature that he'll likely never deliver as he describes and certainly not on the time-line he promised. At the same time he is putting dangerously incomplete software out on public roads and marketing it as FSD when it's clearly not. It's endangering not only his own customers but also everyone around a Tesla on the public roads. If that's not unethical, I don't know what is.
He promised Earth point to point travel, which would require rocket safety to improve by a factor of a million.
He has been promising ridiculous things from Neuralink but with literally nothing to show for it.
To be fair though, iterative is usually the way to go.
We didn't get to the safety levels that airliners currently have by sitting down with books and, we got there by having the NTSB thoroughly analyze each incident.
Humans are terrible drivers, so each day we delay the transition to self-driving also costs lives, it's just that human traffic fatalities are less visible since society generally accepts that level of death.
> Hyperloop was an idea and nothing more. He never said he was personally committed to developing that, hence third-parties working on it.
It's not even his idea, Robert Goddard came up with it decades ago.
He also threw money into it, and then backed out, saying he was too busy.
And now he's tweeting about applying for and obtaining permission to build on the East Coast.
So, there's several issues there. Not to mention the more general issue - that it offers the same benefit as Maglev with massively inflated costs and far less comfortable passenger experience.
Hyperloop was an idea and nothing more. He never said he was personally committed to developing that, hence third-parties working on it.
Interplanetary travel? Starship is actively going through testing and looks like it should be ready for moon launches around 2023, which is in two more years.
I don't consider him infallible, or a demi-god, but its hard not to admire the sheer work ethic of this man. He's legitimately trying, and by all accounts of people who know him, he's actively working on all these projects and also making considerable stride towards these goals. These are not easily achieved tasks.