If you weigh less than, say, 200lbs, you should be able to stand on an empty soda can and it should support your weight, as long as there are no imperfections (dents) in the aluminum.  Have a buddy lightly tap on the can with a pencil while you're standing on it, and it will instantly collapse.

The fuselage skin is not really 1mm thick, that’s the thinnest chem milled section, which accounts for maybe 30% of the entire area. The skin panels are either 2 or 2.2mm (0.080" or 0.090" in freedom units) thick, where they are riveted to other fuselage components like stringers and frame cleats, the 1mm (0.040" or…

it’s wholly possible that they had 1-2 million reservations

It’s also feasible to believe that this “million” number was purposefully inflated as a stock price manipulator, as Musk is wont to do.

it’s wholly possible that they had 1-2 million reservations, and people started cancelling them as soon as they saw what a donkey of a car it is. then musk turning into a raging nazi took care of whatever other reservations were left and not delivered on.

This should be pinned on every article about him or his companies

True, but solving those issues would require an actually competent and attentive CEO and actually competent employees below him.

There’s a lot of that going on these days. See: Trump, Donald.

Here is a quick but honest coverage of how Mr. Musk got to be so wealthy:

At this point, you’re a complete fool if you believe a word that man says.

And also cost more to keep serviced than a Ferrari...

That’s why it doesn’t have windows. So you can’t see how close to death you are every other minute and don’t see that Final Destination coming at you!

Every Optimus will come with a full time human in India actually making all of the movements that the robot will mirror.

I get that companies must innovate and release concepts and be very forward-looking.

Everything about this makes no sense. That is a terrible form for a taxi - two seater.

I can’t believe they called it a “van”. A “20 person van” is a bus. But they can’t call it that, as it would mean their idiotic fan base can’t as easily proclaim it to be “disruptive” and “innovative”. They are too stupid to realise it is a small bus, not a van.

Frankly I preferred the original.

By the way, that AI generated “van” thing was fed this train (art deco streamliner):

About the Optimus.

a 20 passenger van with tesla’s FSD and no human override controls? I can’t see the robovan being anything but an art deco toaster of death