And this is what was promised:
Does anyone think they'll have "full automony" ready in six months as promised (or even 5 years), when they can't get a car to navigate a singe level parking lot at 8km/hour, despite promising it in 6 weeks 8 months ago???
There are only two options at this stage:
1. Musk is very stupid person in many ways who can't understand much about complex engineering and software and is incapable of understanding detail.
2. Musk is a liar and a fraud.
We know for a fact that he's (2), that's proven in multiple ways, but I think there's pretty strong evidence of (1) as well. In evidence of this:
- Musk was such a loser/moron that he thought he could do "air friction limited" robots that you'd need a "strobe light to see" and outdo all the majors on robotics. He nearly destroyed his company trying to implement this comically failed vision, so at the very least he's too stupid to a) understand how robotics work and b) listen to people who know more than him and are smarter than him.
- Musk hired and trusted people who implemented an incredibly stupid and naive strategy for autonomous driving - "machine learn everything". Anyone with a brain and real world software engineering experience would know this approach is going to fail miserably. Musk lacked both despite having worked in software.
- Musk
micromanages multiple things that should not be micromanaged. He appears not to be able to see detail or parallelize. His previous efforts at coding lacked
basic think-ahead structure that anyone with a functioning brain would have created:
Quote:
Musk’s DIY approach to coding didn’t include chunking, so he inadvertently created a “hairball”: a tangled mess of code that’s nearly impossible to unravel if anything goes wrong.
So I think there's a high probability he's both a liar and an idiot. When I say an idiot I mean at engineering and planning, he's a talented money hustler and conman and good at PR and some high-level (non-planning, non-engineering) business decisions.
And you can see his stupidity in the way he speaks. He can't think ahead far enough to organize coherent sentences, frequently stopping and starting, getting lost, etc.
When it all comes crashing down people will wonder how they got conned by this loser, a la Elizabeth Holmes.
Last edited by ToothSayer; 07-14-2019 at 08:46 AM.