They'll ride the self driving Teslas we got in 2014 to the Mars base built in 2022.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2026
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Given the way he's talked about these robots in the past, I'm fine with them not being ready yet.
“If we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over this robot army?” he told investors. “Not control, but a strong influence… I don’t feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.”
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/elon-musk-remarks-robot-army
Well. He's not complaining about paying Elon Musk via subscription.
It makes sense, as this guy apparently has a business to promote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JerryRigEverything
But still.
All these 'geniuses' of the current age really make you wonder how many of the supposedly super intelligent innovators we learned about in school were just frauds taking credit for other people's achievements.
Thomas Edison ❌ Nikola Tesla ✅
Elon Musk is the Edison of the current age.
Not true. Edison was quite the inventor in his younger days. Elon is just a leech.
Elon Musk is the personification of a moron’s hallucination of a genius.
Modern day Edison.
Edison wasn’t stupid, he could come up with good ideas. He was just better at making others do the work and come up with the ideas for him to take as his own.
I love that he goes after Elon etc really hard. It’s hilarious.
Still strange that he continues to promote his cyber truck
Am i out of the loop?
He sold the truck some months ago
I didn’t know, thanks! (Btw, your link includes some tracking, YouTube showed me your Profile without me looking for it..)
For anyone's info: everything after & including the "?" In YouTube links is tracking data. Deleting it when posting a link still shows the right video.
I love seeing those overpriced dumpsters on the back of flatbed tow trucks...hopefully on its way to be dropped off at a scrap yard. Saw one just the other day during my commute home and I couldn't help but smile.
When will people realize that Elon only has one trick: lie really baldly really publicly, pressure the shit out of a bunch of smart engineers until they get to their breaking point, and if it works you’re a “genius” — if it doesn’t, just throw it on the pile of other completely outlandish shit that you said that never mattered.
But he has hair?
You missed the critical middle step of pumping up market valuation so you can borrow against the hype.
Surely there is a dump step following the pump?
Or is it pump, borrow, repeat?
Borrowing against shares is the dump.
Full self driving by 2016!!!!
I ended up in a situation where I got picked up by a cyber truck of all things, and the current state of self driving is better than I expected, but I still don't trust it. It drove weirdly aggressively and lurchy, even doing frequent lane changes to get ahead, and while the car and people detection worked, the render on the screen was concerning because everything wiggles creepily and disappears and reappears.
Driving it manually seems like a terrible idea as well. No line of sight visibility at all behind and rear sides, way too much blind spot in the front.
10 years after promised completion and it only feels like starting the 'getting there' phase.
Watched a buddy's Tesla categorize my car + trailer as a car, car + trailer, and then a semi and back again every few seconds. Both cars were parked....
Who needs lidar
The visualization bugginess depends on model confidence thesholds, just because it isn't rendered doesn't mean it isn't seen. I also wonder what aggression level it was set to.
Honestly, it's not terrible these days for 90% of the driving, but it will absolutely kill you or someone else if you think for a moment it can drive completely unsupervised - that's the real danger imo.
I didn't know it had aggresion levels but it was probably fairly high. I've been in some powerful EVs that were still smooth.
The scary thing with the self driving is that it was stopping for people that I didn't notice and even the human driver had to look at the screen to see it was a person out of view, so even with supervision if it missed something you might not be able to see it.
10 years post claim entering a getting there phase is good.
For plasma fusion it took like 40 years post promise to the getting there phase, as long as the getting there phase means private investors are willing to fund
The bigger issue, IMHO, was that this was promised as a finished product, not a research project or an investment.
Weird, I would have thought Elon was more of a Decepticon kinda guy.
Even their names fit Elon better. Megatron. Starscream. Dirge.
Not a fan of the guy btw, in fact I'm saying if you're the devil you shouldn't call your new demonic general The Archangel Gabriel, ya know?
Nah, it makes sense. Religions weren't invented to maintain power for the good guys. People carrying crosses saying they worked for the god of light and benevolence would then hang you by your feet and chop you in half. This is pretty spot on for an evil person.
sources?
The Hammurabi Code, The Pharisees, The Spanish Inquisition, etc. (I'm sure my fellow lemmings could go on and on).
All of civilization has been: 'jumping from one bullshit ghost story to the next to reinforce laws created by the rich'.
Are you new?
That's Lemmy's resident Catholic apologist. They actually believe Christianity has been proven true. Don't waste your time.
Elon needs all of his companies to stay in growth valuation mode. The moment people start pricing them like stable, mature companies (or worse) he’s kinda screwed.
Unfortunately, the stock market has been not been pricing stable mature companies. Only growth stocks get money.
Cultists do not like when you point out their fairy-deity is full of shit
Most people don't like when their ego is threatened. They'll make up any excuse to protect their flimsy sense of self worth.
It's easier to just go "I guess I was wrong" but most people are emotionally fucking cowards.
It's easier to just go "I guess I was wrong" but most people are emotionally fucking cowards.
It really seems like this is easier to me too. The older I get the more I realize that this is one of the most difficult things for a ton of people to do and I don't understand why. Do they genuinely think they are incapable of being wrong? I don't think there's anything special about me so why does this seem so hard for almost everyone else?
Do they genuinely think
Given that this is about emotions, not thoughts, you're starting off on the wrong direction.
I wonder about this a lot, too!
Some cursory searching shows a variety of causes. Maybe from a young age they were repeatedly taught that being wrong made them bad and stupid and unworthy of love, and that's deeply wound around their subconscious now.
It'd be just sad if it wasn't causing incalculable harm to society.
Some people have such a fragile ego, such brittle self-esteem, such a weak "psychological constitution," that admitting they made a mistake or that they were wrong is fundamentally too threatening for their egos to tolerate. Accepting they were wrong, absorbing that reality, would be so psychologically shattering that their defense mechanisms do something remarkable to avoid doing so—they literally distort their perception of reality to make it (reality) less threatening. Their defense mechanisms protect their fragile ego by changing the very facts in their mind, so they are no longer wrong or culpable.
:shrug:
Hey, Elon, you’re the world’s richest loser.
Soyyyyyyy..... un perdedor!!!!!!
... so why don't we kill him?
Lyrically, of course.
Like no really, him and all these fuckers have eggshells for egos... mock them relentlessly, gloriously, they will crack.
Considering the resource-raping and the complete absence of Asimov's Laws, we're better off without.
The entire point of the I, Robot anthology is that the three laws don’t work.
They don’t work when you give robots lots of control. They are a very decent guard rail compared to having none at all
They are a shit guard rail because they can never be formally specified. Again, read the stories.
True, because it's too easy to subvert them surreptitiously, and yet the present plan of openly seeking world domination, starting by running over schoolchildren and telling teens to commit suicide, is worse.
Well, 2026 isn’t over yet.