Agreed. Remember when bluetooth, dual climate control, and satnav were luxury features only found on S-Classes, 7ers, and other near 6-figure high end luxury cars? Now, they can be added to a modern day$15K shitbox. I would definitely describe the accessibility of automotive technologies as advancement.
Ever since I watched Revenge of the Electric Car, I’ve been a fan. He is doing what I would love to do if I had billions: fund really cool ventures that can helps spark a revolution and change the world.
Oh please, the ICEs in cars are still the least efficient methods of energy production we have, even a large coal plant is more efficient. Having a tiny power plant in every car is a terrible idea.
He decided to use his personal wealth to an electric car company and a rocket company, probably number 1 and 2 on the list of “most risky things ever to try to do”, instead of safely using it to simply make himself richer, so he deserves respect for that.
Rocket assembly lines! It’s something that gets overlooked a lot, but SpaceX is mass producing freaking rocket ships! (“mass producing” being a very relative term)
While you may be correct you will need to remember every technology is near out there in some fashion and just being improved upon and made available to the masses.
As the person below said who else was selling purly electric cars before tesla? The other car manufacturers sat on their hand because they knew they would…
Nope. They’ve been just dumping them in the ocean to be picked up for scrap for decades with no public plans to do otherwise.
Which advances them.
Yes, I too remember the mass market electric cars that existed before the Model S, and their world-wide dedicated charging infrastructure. Though I cannot recall the name of the company that built them, surely you can help me?
He hasn’t advanced any technologies
*only* lol. Yeah he ain’t done shit!
SpaceX has done a lot to improve rocket technology & techniques.
Who was landing rockets on floating barges before?
Really? When was the other time you saw someone flip a fucking rocket over in space and land it on a barge to be reused?
Satellite launches are heavily insured for this exact reason.
Not even a little bit? On a wide open runway at low speeds with nothing to hit?
Bull. I bought my Mac way back in grad school because it came with GCC for free, and I could do my research work (coding for a large collaboration) while listening to iTunes, plus write documents with MS Word, all without dual-booting. This was 2002, so Linux wasn’t a great option for laptops: I had to travel with it…
Actually, most Apple customers do care about value since their products last longer, and hold their value much better than their counterparts. The side-effect of having more affluent customers is that most of them have the rescources to buy new devices every cycle...this appears to only be a big deal to the people who…
Pulling numbers out of the a$$ aren’t we? 33% ?