So, we get Ruboven AND people on Mars* in just a few years?! It’s almost unbelievable!

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

Look at Trumps reaction to elmo when he starts in.

“Regulatory barriers” is rapidly becoming the fall guy for every problem at every one of Musk’s companies — and I am rather concerned to see how it is starting to become the fall guy for problems at SpaceX. That company has managed to keep ahead of the burnout curve for an impressively long time, but it does seem that…

“We’re delaying the first look at the Robotaxi until after the election because something something KAMALA.”

He’s going to show off his concept for a plan.

Breaking News: One of the “renders” of a future Tesla vehicle just leaked.

Nonsense. Of course they’re real and ready to go into widespread service. Why, here’s a picture of one already ferrying famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to a glamorous event:

I’ll call that an upgrade from just having a person drive a Tesla there, a guy in a robot suite pretending to be a robot, or Elon smashing the bullet proof windows on stage. At least this time the vaporware will remain vapor. 

Another brilliant move by Elon! He’s Disrupting making actual things!

Arctic Circle? They can barely make it to a traffic circle at times.

Tesla Ute!

“ a truck that didn’t look like crap”

At one point this was probably true. But now? Musk seems to be doing far more harm to the brand than good. He has alienated his primary customer base and hurt the brand far more than helped it. His constant overpromising and underperforming is no longer excused. And the Truck? In a truck obsessed US market it…

Well, I’m going to tell my clients I’m not going to work anymore until I get a significant raise and see how that goes. *fingers crossed*

Sometimes memes are just too good:

Did a drunk baby weld that bracket on?

I test materials for high purity process orbital welding and we don’t even get to those tolerances. Every time he pretends to be an engineer or manufacturing genius I have to laugh. If this is indicative of their work and QC, they’re going to be in a world of hurt.

To put this into perspective, a regular piece of printer paper is about 90 microns thick, so Elon expects a whole damn car to be accurate to within roughly 1/10 the thickness of a piece of paper. That’s not possible on a consumer vehicle. Hell, even that recent $30,000,000 Rolls Royce wouldn’t have tolerances that…

Should have gone with the monorail. North Haverbrook did, and as far as I know, they are quite happy with it.