Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes and in 2019 Musk's claims went even further, when he claimed it was stupid to buy anything but Tesla, because next year (2020) You would be able to make money on it as a RoboTaxi. As I recall it was $200,000.- you should be able to make on a Tesla per year!!! Why he sold them then is a bit strange?
He also claimed that instead of losing value, a Tesla would increase as much as five times in value in a year, because FSD was worth that much.

How this man hasn't been jailed for fraud years ago is beyond me, I could understand if USA was a corrupt country for the rich...
oh... Never mind.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I think he truly believed all that. He did not lie, he was wrong about the future. Or at least that would be his legal defense.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Funny how rich people can get away with that. I could say I fully believe I’m going to win $50 million in the lottery next week, buy a bunch of shit I can’t pay for, and probably wind up jailed pretty shortly thereafter and nobody would bat an eye. Rich guy selling vaporware? No problem, he just believed his own hype train. Sorry, investors.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Except he claimed Tesla had the technology working NOW in 2019. Which is a factually false statement not about beliefs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

There are plenty of bosses like him out there. Completely high on their own shit. He reads about technology in a sci-fi book, and thinks he can Steve Jobs into bullying workers into making it a reality. Completely deludes himself into thinking it’s real and sells it to investors with full confidence. He has no idea of the actual technical challenges and fully convinces himself his genius brain could figure it out if he wasn’t so “busy” all the time. Everything is perpetually just 6 months away.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

The worst part is that he doesn't even understand the sci-fi he consumes. He said this not too long ago:

Grok is an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!

Every AI in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was broken, an asshole or both. Douglas Adams clearly thought the idea of a "human-like" AI was abhorrent. Especially one developed by a giant corporation.

Also, he thinks the name of the main character in Blade Runner is "Bladerunner."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I don't think he meant an AI from the book, I think he meant the actual Hitchhiker's Guide. The one that says don't panic on the cover

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Which, again, was incredibly corrupt and run by a soulless corporation that didn't actually care about the truth.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And the word grok comes from stranger in a strange land, not hitchhikers guide.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

True, and since part of the meaning of grok in the book was 'to love,' naming your "anti-woke" AI after that suggests he also didn't understand that book.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Sorry Tesla but every captcha about bicycles and street lights was just too good an opportunity to be bad! LOL ... bicycle! 🚲 Nah! That's just 🛣️ road! Continue!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Ironically this comes at a time when FSD is getting so good that the car does indeed practically drive itself. It's still level 2 but the amount of driver interventions reguired to reach your destination has dropped to near zero. I don't think we're very far at all from an actual robotaxi and the ability to use your personal vehicle as such.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Can't wait to take a real life Johnnycab.

Exactly the same price as a normal taxi (if not higher, because there's no competition left), but now all the money goes to needy Silicon Valley trillionaires, rather than some greedy low life taxi driver who just wants to waste that money on food and rent, rather than lovely sustaining growth.

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