Robotaxis are a vaporware pipedream. The only reason it’s being mentioned by Elmo is because Tesla’s stock price is in the gutter (and still overpriced!) and the venture capitalist hype man needs some hype to bring it up again, or else Elmo is fucked.  

It’s unfortunate that when this company finally collapses (as it should), the only people who will lose out are regular workers while the lunatic who destroyed the whole thing will walk away richer than ever. Even knowing that it’s hard not to root for Tesla to completely implode.

Looks like he’s trying to flush both companies down the toilet.

No, SpaceX have a partially reusable launch system involving the first stage of a LEO capable system that maybe saves around 30% of the cost.

“Elon Musk makes another bullshit claim in desperate attempt for attention”

Fool me once, shame on me.

My 80 Malibu was self-driving. If you floored it, the throttle would stick to the floor because of the floor mat, and it was common for the lock cylinder to fall out of the steering column when you hit a bump so that the steering wheel would lock into position.

1st gear:  Although I’m a Tesla fan, I’m not a fan of the ‘self driving’... UNLESS that it becomes good enough that I can LEGALLY take a nap in the back seat while the car drives me home.  Until that happens, I’m not interested.   Nor am I interested in paying $$$$$ to be part of a beta test. 

“Fool Self Driving”

Musk is about as believable as George R. R. Martin.

Elon Musk says.... WE DON’T CARE. STOP REPEATING WHAT THIS IDIOT SAYS. Stop making stupid people famous

China has built nearly 25,000 miles of high speed rail. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China

“ it was always a long shot”
No,it was pure fantasy right from the start.
Anyone with even moderate technical abilities could see the massive problems.
It would have been unbelievably expensive and pretty much impossible to make safe..
There are no excuses for the level of delusion from those pushing this project

Well argued and insightful, to which I have only one word to add: MONORAIL!

I was scratching my head at that too, and then decided he meant the “new” Tesla Roadster that keeps getting pushed back. Especially as the 200 or so HP original Roadster can’t be realistically compared to the Veyron at all.

The hate is because it is stupid.

Not in this case.
Hyperloop wasn’t a long shot like, for example, vertical landing rockets, it always has basically been a scam for venture capitalist.

The engineering is pretty simple - it’s the amount of money required that isn’t.

In transit planning circles, we have a term for this kind of BS—gadgetbahn: a techy, innovative-sounding solution to an already solved problem. Every country seems susceptible to this kind of stuff, but the U.S. in particular is in part because just doing things the way other countries do—especially regarding…

My local CVS can’t even keep it’s vacuum tube running from the pharmacy window to the drive-thru, so I’m even dubious about this even being viable for freight.