Master Plan, Part Trois:
Solar-powered, autonomous spacecraft.
Master Plan, Part Deux
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#32Forgive me if this is a silly question but when he talks about "beautiful solar-roof-with-battery", is he talking about car roofs or roofs of buildings?
An electric car with a solar roof that charges all day would be pretty cool.
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#33To anyone who's paid close attention to Tesla and to Elon's various offhand remarks to the press and on Twitter, this was all easy to see coming, every bit of it. But now that he's confirmed it all officially: this NUTS . This is so awesome. The press is going to go crazy with this. I wonder what will happen to Uber...seems like it will be hard for them to compete with the rates of cars that don't have to pay their d…
Where has he mentioned semis or buses? I thought I had been paying close attention.
I'm sorry, I've read/watched every interview or press release or tweet he's given in the past 5 years. I couldn't tell you exactly where individual bits came from.
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#34Are there any more details on the factory factory? I didn't understand that part.
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#35I hear about bus drivers and truck drivers getting into accidents due to drowsiness enough that it's a constant worry whenever I'm on the highway next to one. I wonder if I'd feel safer if i saw a Tesla Semi knowing that were wasn't a human behind the wheel. Should autonomous vehicles be identified as such (special lights or label) so that real humans can know not to be erratic around it?
> Should autonomous vehicles be identified as such (special lights or label) so that real humans can know not to be erratic around it?
Great idea. Would do wonders for marketing the capabilities too.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I swear to god he could do it all just as described and there will still be people who have nothing to say but "meh." Blows my mind.
Natural counter to the people who worship at the feet of their god king musk.
We should always be thoughtful and critical of ideas regardless from whom they are coming, but autonomously landed first stage rocket boosters returning from orbit is a _big_ fucking deal. There may be some blind worship, but we are not talking about a charlatan here.
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#37I hear about bus drivers and truck drivers getting into accidents due to drowsiness enough that it's a constant worry whenever I'm on the highway next to one. I wonder if I'd feel safer if i saw a Tesla Semi knowing that were wasn't a human behind the wheel. Should autonomous vehicles be identified as such (special lights or label) so that real humans can know not to be erratic around it?
I don't think they should be identified. Look how drivers treat learners of they're marked - the marking are supposed to indicate 'this driver is inexperienced, be patient and expect them to do the wrong thing' but people treat it as 'please tailgate and honk until they stop out of fear'
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#38I feel like there must have been a few pages left off the beginning and this whole post was a summary of an article that doesn't exist. I guess that's just Elon Musk's train of thought.
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#39I hear about bus drivers and truck drivers getting into accidents due to drowsiness enough that it's a constant worry whenever I'm on the highway next to one. I wonder if I'd feel safer if i saw a Tesla Semi knowing that were wasn't a human behind the wheel. Should autonomous vehicles be identified as such (special lights or label) so that real humans can know not to be erratic around it?
This comment reminds me of the various (likely apocryphal) laws when cars were still new and shared the road with cars.
Cars we considered the new weird thing that needed to take special steps to not spook horses or their riders/drivers.
Now, of course, the situation is reversed and horses often are required to have special visibility gear to be seen more clearly by cars.
So, perhaps in the future there will be some sort of indicator light that turns on when the idiot driver turns on manual driving mode so you (edit, or your car!) can give them a wide berth.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's almost as if some people are skeptical!
It's almost as if he's delivered on everything he promised while running the two most difficult companies in America simultaneously! "We'll never have reusable rockets, what a joke..."
> It's almost as if he's delivered on everything he promised
hasn't Tesla repeatedly missed price points and delivery dates.
Or are those not promises.
I actually think most of what he is talking about is pretty doable. The ones I'm skeptical of are his talk about the massive factory improvements (in a few years too?) and the magic buses with no aisles or entrances.
By what measure are Tesla and SpaceX the "two most difficult companies in America"