Throwcomputer
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Gonna take a lot more than that to get kudos.
And in typical Musk fashion.. he announced a desired target price for retail which he will literally never be able to keep, because the refined production version is like 6-10 years out from the current iteration, and we all know how pricing something 5-6 years out ends up!
This is my problem with him and the whole thing. Sure, announce the thing. But shut up about it, especially pricing of it, until its literally ready for production and you are basically waiting to push the button on sales. Don't keep trotting out yearly incremental versions that a majority of the world will see as failures and then stand on stage venting frustration that the whole world can't see your end goal which is 10 years out. Otherwise its an increasingly valid argument that he straddles the line on vaporware.
Now dojo is something I am glad to hear about because its something they are realistically approaching in terms of progress and goals. The robot is like jumping on stage and saying you are going to create a warp drive for sale in 4 years for the price of a budget sedan. I'm not against anyone working on autonomous humanoid robots, or warp drive, but that crap will take a long time to get right, and publicly treating them like "hold my beer.. i got this" is infantile. It diminishes the time and effort that the real engineers behind the scenes are putting in.
And in typical Musk fashion.. he announced a desired target price for retail which he will literally never be able to keep, because the refined production version is like 6-10 years out from the current iteration, and we all know how pricing something 5-6 years out ends up!
This is my problem with him and the whole thing. Sure, announce the thing. But shut up about it, especially pricing of it, until its literally ready for production and you are basically waiting to push the button on sales. Don't keep trotting out yearly incremental versions that a majority of the world will see as failures and then stand on stage venting frustration that the whole world can't see your end goal which is 10 years out. Otherwise its an increasingly valid argument that he straddles the line on vaporware.
Now dojo is something I am glad to hear about because its something they are realistically approaching in terms of progress and goals. The robot is like jumping on stage and saying you are going to create a warp drive for sale in 4 years for the price of a budget sedan. I'm not against anyone working on autonomous humanoid robots, or warp drive, but that crap will take a long time to get right, and publicly treating them like "hold my beer.. i got this" is infantile. It diminishes the time and effort that the real engineers behind the scenes are putting in.
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