Except absolute numbers are meaningless. You need to know driving hours or miles to know the scale. E.g. deaths per 100,000mi or deaths per 100,000hrs.
2013-2025 and only 2 linked to FSD ? The rest are human errors ? FSD sounds better than human drivers just going by that data. How many people have, for example, BMW killed in 12 years ?
> you see that he’s a creator of mirages who promises more than he delivers
There is no doubt he has promised many things that have never been delivered, or delivered extremely late.
He (his companies/teams) have also utterly changed the space launch landscape to the point of making the rest of the world irrelevant. Changed the energy market across the globe, delivered exceptional electric vehicles and (finally) put a car on the road for public use with no mirrors, steering wheel or pedals. The production line is also world leading, as stated by every auto CEO that has toured it.
Does he actually deliver? Isn't SpaceX ran by grownups that are not him? Isn't it well known that when he's actually involved in trying to deliver that he gets in the way and slows everything down?
> delivered exceptional electric vehicles
Tesla's ranking for quality and reliability and many cases of fraud regarding warranty repairs would disagree rather heavily with "exceptional".
And your analysis ignores his many, many business failures and his overall negative affect on things and culture.
John Carmack is someone whose opinion is worth a heck of a lot to me. If he vouches for Musk as a hands-on rocket engineer, I’m not going to argue with him.
I’m sorry but Python ecosystem is a sick joke, and it is not discrediting that someone who doesn’t deal with python every day isn’t fluent on the magical commands for running pip3 within venv.
To this day I still don’t remember what the command is to activate a venv. I wouldn’t touch that horrible language[0] if I didn’t have an LLM to deal with it for me.
[0] that’s unfair, it’s actually a very nice language and I like it a lot, but the toolchain surrounding it is disgusting
He has one effect, which can be good or bad. He’s an attention magnet. He didn’t make Tesla what it was, but he also fucked it up less than most CEOs do. Most CEOs want to make real changes. He just let smart people do great work so he could be on (and eventually buy) Twitter.
His flamboyance raised the profile of electric vehicles. That was good, because we’re gonna need them. When this actual work was the relevant factor, we got DOGE, an unforgivable disaster.
> When Musk is hyper-focused on daily operations, it can often lead to extra work — he’s inserted himself in projects and demanded changes for sometimes arbitrary reasons, former employees say.
> For instance, current and former employees describe times that Musk has deemed certain hardware as having too many tubes, connectors, or wires, or just not generally fitting his preferred design aesthetic. He’s demanded that employees rework and simplify systems, leading employees to spend time justifying why certain parts exist or triggering major redesigns and work that can take weeks to accomplish. Sometimes, that work ultimately has to be reversed when components that were discarded ultimately are needed for the final design.
Musk has said as much himself, adding: "You may have to add [parts or processes] back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn't delete enough."
SpaceX is amazing, and he may receive due credit for the "vision" of pushing forward the state of the art in electric vehicles and rockets.
We (society) often glosses over personal failings of popular figures. But given the level of outright lies he has funded in elections and how much money he has spent to get anti-democracy politicians in power in the US, one should not waver in their condemnation of the man's character.
Fascism and racism are more than personal failings when you splash around hundreds of millions of dollars to, for example, get neofascists elected in a German state.
Glad we agree. I can't tell if I'm being downvoted by anti-Musk people who didn't read the whole comment, or pro-Musk people mad that I called him out for funding disinformation campaigns.
Musk has pulled off a reverse von Braun. Von Braun was a Nazi who used slave labor, but whose past was overshadowed by later building cool rockets. Musk built cool rockets, but his past has been overshadowed by association with similarly evil people.
3 hrs and 52 minutes of Musk.
I didn't even want to sit in front of a screen for 2 hours for Bob Dylan, sheesh.
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We don't need novelty accounts here.
Monster.
>More than 60 fatalities have been linked to Tesla’s driver-assistance systems. Talk about something that could put a dent in your image!
That seems pretty low?
Driving is extremely dangerous.
It is. However, "Tesla statistically saved lifes" doesn't make an exciting news article.
Except absolute numbers are meaningless. You need to know driving hours or miles to know the scale. E.g. deaths per 100,000mi or deaths per 100,000hrs.
This site has numbers and sources: https://www.tesladeaths.com/
2013-2025 and only 2 linked to FSD ? The rest are human errors ? FSD sounds better than human drivers just going by that data. How many people have, for example, BMW killed in 12 years ?
Yes and "linked" is a weasel word to imply something without making a definite statement for which there's no proof.
That Musk dude needs a hobby.
Apparently, he has at least one. [0]
[0]: https://babynames.com/blogs/celebrities/all-of-elon-musks-ch...
> you see that he’s a creator of mirages who promises more than he delivers
There is no doubt he has promised many things that have never been delivered, or delivered extremely late.
He (his companies/teams) have also utterly changed the space launch landscape to the point of making the rest of the world irrelevant. Changed the energy market across the globe, delivered exceptional electric vehicles and (finally) put a car on the road for public use with no mirrors, steering wheel or pedals. The production line is also world leading, as stated by every auto CEO that has toured it.
Does he over promise and exaggerate? Undoubtedly.
But he does also deliver.
Ok and how about his character as a human being?
I’ve never met the guy, but many reports are very bad.
>Does he over promise and exaggerate? Undoubtedly.
>But he does also deliver.
Shotwell deserves 99.99% of the SpaceX credit over Musk. anyone who says differently needs to take off their Musk-coloured glasses
also there are very good reasons no one else has released cars on public roads with no mirrors, steering wheels or pedals.
John Carmack says differently. What colour are his glasses?
> Changed the energy market across the globe
... Wait, how's that?
> delivered exceptional electric vehicles
I mean, I'll give you 'exceptional'. Not exceptionally _good_, though.
> He (his companies/teams) have also utterly changed the space launch landscape to the point of making the rest of the world irrelevant
For now. Other countries are catching up, same as they are with electric vehicles.
News at 10: future products will surpass current products.
That is always true, in every industry.
Does he actually deliver? Isn't SpaceX ran by grownups that are not him? Isn't it well known that when he's actually involved in trying to deliver that he gets in the way and slows everything down?
> delivered exceptional electric vehicles
Tesla's ranking for quality and reliability and many cases of fraud regarding warranty repairs would disagree rather heavily with "exceptional".
And your analysis ignores his many, many business failures and his overall negative affect on things and culture.
John Carmack is someone whose opinion is worth a heck of a lot to me. If he vouches for Musk as a hands-on rocket engineer, I’m not going to argue with him.
Tom Mueller also seems to explicitly support this
One narcissist opining on another narcissist isn't what I pay attention to.
> If he vouches for Musk as a hands-on rocket engineer
Employees have said otherwise. There was one report where Musk barely understood how to run a Python script.
I’m sorry but Python ecosystem is a sick joke, and it is not discrediting that someone who doesn’t deal with python every day isn’t fluent on the magical commands for running pip3 within venv.
To this day I still don’t remember what the command is to activate a venv. I wouldn’t touch that horrible language[0] if I didn’t have an LLM to deal with it for me.
[0] that’s unfair, it’s actually a very nice language and I like it a lot, but the toolchain surrounding it is disgusting
He is the archetype of creation by exhortation. How many people destroyed their health trying to make FSD work by the end of this year for 10 years?
As someone who uses it everyday, it's a very impressive piece of technology, is it not?
What does FSD stand for, remind me.
Something that it isn’t.
Delivers an ungodly amount of space pollution that's for sure.
The other posters in this thread seem to blame Glenn Shotwell for that
He has one effect, which can be good or bad. He’s an attention magnet. He didn’t make Tesla what it was, but he also fucked it up less than most CEOs do. Most CEOs want to make real changes. He just let smart people do great work so he could be on (and eventually buy) Twitter.
His flamboyance raised the profile of electric vehicles. That was good, because we’re gonna need them. When this actual work was the relevant factor, we got DOGE, an unforgivable disaster.
> Most CEOs want to make real changes. He just let smart people do great work so he could be on (and eventually buy) Twitter.
I'm not sure that's the case:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-17/elon-musk...
> When Musk is hyper-focused on daily operations, it can often lead to extra work — he’s inserted himself in projects and demanded changes for sometimes arbitrary reasons, former employees say.
> For instance, current and former employees describe times that Musk has deemed certain hardware as having too many tubes, connectors, or wires, or just not generally fitting his preferred design aesthetic. He’s demanded that employees rework and simplify systems, leading employees to spend time justifying why certain parts exist or triggering major redesigns and work that can take weeks to accomplish. Sometimes, that work ultimately has to be reversed when components that were discarded ultimately are needed for the final design.
CEOs who act the way he does are horrible CEOs 100% of the time - doesn't matter if the company has 10, 100 or 100,000 employees.
Musk has said as much himself, adding: "You may have to add [parts or processes] back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn't delete enough."
Between this and the Elizabeth Holmes one, just adding to the 'positive' Silicon Valley/tech/VC public marketing right now... /s
(Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Doc Met with Shock and Awe at Secret Screening https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613598)
SpaceX is amazing, and he may receive due credit for the "vision" of pushing forward the state of the art in electric vehicles and rockets.
We (society) often glosses over personal failings of popular figures. But given the level of outright lies he has funded in elections and how much money he has spent to get anti-democracy politicians in power in the US, one should not waver in their condemnation of the man's character.
Fascism and racism are more than personal failings when you splash around hundreds of millions of dollars to, for example, get neofascists elected in a German state.
Glad we agree. I can't tell if I'm being downvoted by anti-Musk people who didn't read the whole comment, or pro-Musk people mad that I called him out for funding disinformation campaigns.
Musk has pulled off a reverse von Braun. Von Braun was a Nazi who used slave labor, but whose past was overshadowed by later building cool rockets. Musk built cool rockets, but his past has been overshadowed by association with similarly evil people.