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Comment on Elon Musk "We dug our own grave with 'FULL SELF DRIVING""
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months agoHow is he wrong about SpaceX? As far as I can tell, he is spot on. If a NASA program had as many failures as SpaceX has, it would be closed down. And the economic claims Musk make for SpaceX are insane.
ylph@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Starship is a very ambitious program, really pushing the boundaries
Oh boy! Do you mean kind of like Hyperloop and Full Autonomous driving?
declaring it doomed based on the test flight results so far is really premature.
I don’t, I just don’t believe the economic forecast Musk is claiming. Just like when he in 2019 claimed buying any other car than a Tesla would be stupid, because only Tesla would have full self driving next year.
ylph@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Full Autonomous driving is definitely also a very ambitious project. I do think it is in principle feasible, and has great potential,
Problem is he promised it was basically ready in 2016, and would be available for customers “next year”. Yes “we” will eventually get there I think, but it will probably not be Tesla.
I do think Musk is a narcissist, I don’t think he is an idiot.
I agree, He is mostly an idiot because he can’t help being a narcissist, it makes him behave irrationally with over confidence.
I also don’t think he is a genius, more like someone with decent amount of technical competence
Exactly, obviously he has some sort of competence running a business, but you can be both competent in one way and an idiot in others at the same time.
I don’t think that takes away much from the actual achievements of both Tesla and especially SpaceX however.
Yes I admit the success of Tesla is a huge achievement, and I too defended Musk for making the electric car cool and also show it was feasible. When the critics began. I still admit that’s a significant achievement, but today as ThunderF00t says, just because he may have been a net positive, doesn’t mean we should look the other way when he does harm later.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think it was the comparisons to other launch vehicles that were very apples to oranges. But as I said, I’d rather not dig through the Reddit threads to find them. I think they were on SpaceX lounge a few years ago? Common sense skeptic commented, but I don’t think thunderfoot did.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are you aware he is a chemist, and has worked in areas related. Not 1 in a thousand understand as well as he how a rocket actually works.
So my guess is that almost everybody else, myself included, who speak on those issues know less.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah I know he’s a chemist. I’m an aerospace mech e. Some of the other people in the thread were engineers too. Anyway, it was just Wikipedia level incorrect information sort of stuff more than deduction of chemistry.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
OK, then you know more than me, I’m just not aware of the apples to oranges comparison you mention.
RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’re being trolled, dude.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Jesus, man. Get off his D. You’re getting way over defensive of the guy.