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Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe

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Re: Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe

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Try the Criticism section of the Unsafe At Any Speed article, i.e. the link you read well enough to translate into a snarky one-liner.

For some reason your comments are coming across with a lot of hostility. I'm not sure why, but my knowledge of Nader's book comes from having read about it when I was younger and took an interest in the topic. I'm happy to be proven wrong about the attempt by the auto industry to smear Nader - and his success at proving this attempt and defending his thesis - but I'm confused about why this discussion is starting to…

I'm not trying to prove you wrong about the auto-industry trying to smear Nader. I'm not arguing that Nader was wrong or deserved criticism. I was reacting to your dismissive flourish "Translation:" bit.

Re: Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe

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"I'm saying this because he is a businessman, not an engineer." Musk is the Chief Designer at Space-X, Product Architect at Tesla Motors, and a member of the Stanford University Engineering Advisory Board. He has previously served as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. - Wikipedia.

Elon Musk is not an engineer. He does not have an engineering degree and does not hold an engineering license. I'm a huge fan of the guy, but he is not an engineer.

No, but he has a bachelor's in physics along with his business degree. And from personal experience I can say that if you hang around enough with engineers you pick up a lot of things.

Re: Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe

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There may be the perception that they "can't" - and it is realistic to state this - but they actually can.

Bad use of language on my part, it would probably be more accurate to say that they won't, because of the politics involved.

FWIW it was absolutely not the intention to criticise you, what you said, or how you said it – I'd have said the same thing as you did. I felt the need to put the distinction forward as I'm in the eternal process of removing "can't"'s from my mindset.
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