Comment by JonChesterfield
4 days ago
Who makes the bar for "good at delivering tech" if the guy pushing spacex, starlink and tesla simultaneously doesn't reach it?
4 days ago
Who makes the bar for "good at delivering tech" if the guy pushing spacex, starlink and tesla simultaneously doesn't reach it?
Many promises that never materialized or resulted in mediocre or bad products, from the Mars mission to the Hyperloop, and from Teslas dismal software and often promised, never materializing fully autonomous drive to the Cybertruck. Let's not go into the robot vapourware either...
Hyperloop is the only thing you listed that is accurate, although it was only a whitepaper + competition. It was open for others to pursue.
Tesla easily has the best vehicle software + OTA and has since the S in 2012. It still feels better than most new vehicles.
You can buy a Tesla (including Cybertruck) today that will do 95+% of drives with 0 intervention. It may not be 100% autonomous yet, but there isn't anything obvious limiting the last step.
The robots exist but are still being developed. Within 5 years, it is hard to imagine them not becoming super valuable within factory settings.
>Tesla easily has the best vehicle software + OTA and has since the S in 2012
Sure: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehic...
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-drivers-are-paying-big-buc...
https://www.thestreet.com/automotive/tesla-employees-shared-...
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-04-15...
https://www.torquenews.com/17998/after-software-update-left-...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/tesla-autopi...
the cases are endless...
>The robots exist but are still being developed. Within 5 years, it is hard to imagine them not becoming super valuable within factory settings.
Yeah, let's check back in 5 years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaSupport/comments/1poig9a/night...
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/when-a-software-upda...
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And yet SpaceX flies the most reliable rocket in history more frequently than anyone in the world has ever flown, takes astronauts to the ISS regularly, and does so for far less then any competition. Tesla changed the automobile from ICE to BEV in a way people wanted to buy and was practical as a replacement for any use, and created a charging standard so successful every US car company is switching to.
And the Mars missions so far are just delayed.
>And yet SpaceX flies the most reliable rocket in history more frequently than anyone in the world has ever flown, takes astronauts to the ISS regularly, and does so for far less then any competition
Yeah, after almost half a century, they passed 70s-era Soyuz numbers.
>Tesla changed the automobile from ICE to BEV in a way people wanted to buy and was practical as a replacement for any use
The magic of EV subsidies (for both Tesla and buyers).
>And the Mars missions so far are just delayed.
The magic of that statement is that it can be true at any point in the future!