It’s a prototype, not even a pre production unit. It’s probably holding together with superglue and double-faced 3M tape.

While your image is clearly terrible craftsmanship, this vehicle is an early prototype, build predominately by hand. I am happy to criticize Tesla, but I’ll criticize a production-model

I think we’ve reached the point where the only thing worse then Elon Musk fanboys who will defend him for anything are Elon Musk critics who will take every opportunity to bash anything he mentions, including innocuous things like a charming little indie video game that first came out over six year ago for Android and…

And you wonder why people think journalism is dead. The eloquence of relating Elon playing an indie game to his apartheid benefits, just really good stuff. Highschool newspapers everywhere are envious. Amazing how all of these people just hating on Elon for basically no other reason than him being more successful than…

Building a space launch company, a multi-thousand satellite constellation, and the most successful EV company is a snake-oil salesman?

I’m really not getting the attitude of “Tesla will never produce this or that” these days.

Grocery stores and construction companies?

because it’s a stepping stone. if you don’t want to be part of the process, don’t use the tech. there’s literally a reason for this to exist. 

this article misses the point that L2 is a stepping stone. do you think that automation in other areas didn’t require babysitters when it was in its infancy? automation often makes things worse before it makes things better, or causes new problems as it solves older ones. transition periods allllllllways suck. it’s…

Have to disagree Jason. You can’t get to Level 5 without doing Level 2. This is how development works. You build on top of what’s been done before. This tech might not be ideal right now, but neither was commercially available VR in the 90s

Fanboy? Hardly. I’m not sure why everyone hates on the guy though. He does some stupid shit, says some stupid shit, sure.. But *Generally* speaking he does what he says he is going to do, albeit on skewed timelines. Hes brought the first mass production electric car to market, the first re-useable rocket, the first…

Oy, the amount of “pollution” that these rockets are giving off is just about non-measurable in terms of global pollution rates. This is like complaining that I left my stove on for a extra 5 minutes, and ignoring the 50k miles I drive every year in my ICE car.

You can’t claim that space tourism is somehow so inaccessible that only the ultra-rich can do it AND pretend like there are enough flights to cause meaningful damage to the environment. If prices remain at several hundred thousand dollars, I’ll bet we see much less than ~10,000 flights over the next decade. Compared…

Tourism is a waste.

Yous do realize no matter what the earth will not be inhabitable to humans again at some point in the next few thousand years right... There are super volcanos that go off once ever 6 thousand years that are at year 5000... Asteroids whizzing by.

That’s certainly part of the success as well. More so in the U.S. than elsewhere though. :)

Strawman much, pal?

Essentially, traditional manufacturers have customers that are less likely to accept drive unit failures, battery replacements and quality concerns that Tesla early adopters often write off as a small price to pay for a car from the future.

Wow... biased much in the news? Bad journalism 101 and you passed with extra points. Leave your depressive feelings aside and stick to the facts.

Am I reading an article from The Sun right now?  Because this feels like something from The Sun.