Comment by Levitating

17 hours ago

> There’s no way this will ever directly make back the salaries and time spent on it so far.

It does if it keeps their valuation in the trillions.

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d1sxeyes  16 hours ago

I think 'directly' is doing a lot of work in OP's comment. I agree, this is never going to make sales that pay for the engineering effort involved in this machine, but keeping Tesla in the news, having this amazing POC, and the lessons learned that might apply to other parts of Musk's enterprises (SpaceX particularly) are not worth zero.

Plus, whatever you think of Musk, this is really fucking cool.

  • jordanb  15 hours ago

    > Plus, whatever you think of Musk, this is really fucking cool.

    Evel Knievel did some cool things at well. In fact he made a rocket car and even flew in it!

    He also didn't lie to people and collect deposits promising he'd sell them a rocket car.

    • d1sxeyes  8 hours ago

      > He also didn't lie to people and collect deposits promising he'd sell them a rocket car.

      It might be worth reading up on Evel Knievel...

  • grey-area  15 hours ago

    I don’t think much of Musk since the Nazi salutes, but why is this really cool?

    It’s taking work done for rockets which are cool IMO (the control systems and software will all be from those) and sticking it on a car to make a circus act out of it.

    I do have a problem with the fake spectacle of it and don’t think it’s cool in any way.