Comment by sametmax
9 years ago
When musk said they were doing the first decent electrical sport car, everybody became an expert and said it won't work. Then he decided to do solar city and space x. And the crowd said again "naaaa".
Now the guy is tackling another hard problem and everybody knows better.
My thoughts exactly. Elon Musk is not known for vaporware or BSing. If he says something is doable, there's a good reason for it. Musk has a combination of vision, an understanding of physics, and execution ability unmatched by any other person (in my opinion). To say that he has painted himself in a corner is highly misinformed.
>Elon Musk is not known for vaporware or BSing...
Hyperloop though..
I mean, I think bullshit can be sold to even 'techies' aka HN crowd, if it is wrapped just the right way...
That is neither vaporware nor BSing because Musk never suggested he was going to build the Hyperloop. He explicitly said the opposite, that it was an idea he thought was neat and he hoped somebody else would work on it.
Huh? Musk gave away the idea, never said he was himself going to do it.
But in spite of that, technically, Musk has already built a subscale Hyperloop nearly a mile long at the SpaceX campus in Hawthorne including an electric sled used for student competitions: (epilepsy warning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moeI8DxQR5Q
He doesn't have any educational background in AI or it's underpinnings. Running open AI doesn't instantly make him an expert. The above comment is from an expert with experience in the self driving space.
And people from NASA and the CNES said space x was moot.
Can we just let the man try without being annoying the whole way ?
Or do something that helps ?
Or do something at all to understand that it's hard enough and that you really don't need a thousand voices enumerating all the reasons you might fail ?
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his educational background also didn't include rocket science but yet spaceX has succeeded.
If you'd like to put money where your mouth is, I'd happily do a wager with you. Tesla will be the first to have a fully autonomous vehicle - care to bet against that?
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