I look at that and I want a self driving car by Tesla. Did you see the rest of the presentation about their self-driving tech?
This was amazing by this with the short time it's been in development, and the vision for this project is beyond anything that has been done with humanoid robots. Sure they might fail, but it's an exciting venture to follow.
> Have they driven from LA to NYC as Elon promises they would by 2019?
Why do people only ever compare Tesla efforts to Elon expecations.
How many other companies have cars driving around in pretty much every environment on north America? Their competitors have a totally different approach and limit themselves to a few fixed locations that they map out in extreme detail first.
If you take all self driving cars in the world and put them at random locations in the US and tell them to drive somewhere I don't think any company will do better much better then Tesla.
I'm not really a fan of self driving but just clowning Tesla for not reaching the goals set by Elon isn't really interesting or insightful.
> Is hyper loop even a thing or just something Elon admitted was something he came up with to try and kill public transport alternatives?
Hyper loop was never a product. Musk even explicitly stated that it wouldn't be a product anytime soon. He explicitly state they did some evaluation on it and would release an engineering blue paper. This was literally stated outright at the time.
I really don't get the logic 'I wont do X but I find X interesting' and the response a few years later is 'Fuck you, you promised to do X and it didn't happen'. Like that makes people sound insane.
And he never said it was to kill public transport. That was a single news article where a journalist took Musk words out of context to spin his own story.
And people who think California High Speed Rail is failing because of Musk is fucking delusional anyway.
> The Boston Dynamics Robot is far more of a commercial reality than the CyberTruck if you really want to put things in context.
That is totally absurd comparison that makes no sense and illustrates nothing.
Yeah for sure, the autopilot claims and did not come to fruition, for sure, lots of misses when Elon thinks something happens and when it actually will. I don't think personally he's intentionally deceiving the masses.
Not really sure about the hyperloop / train thingy, need to read up more on it.
And BD's robot is not a commercial reality, how many have sold (if we're talking about Atlas and not the dog)? The Cybertruck will start production next year, sure it's behind initial time-schedule but it will be produced and sold in high numbers.
It's pretty hard to get excited for self driving from Tesla. So many of Musk's claims (i.e almost all of them) have turned out to be complete bullshit. They're seemingly still years away from full autonomy, despite him constantly trying to make people think its coming any day now.
This was amazing by this with the short time it's been in development, and the vision for this project is beyond anything that has been done with humanoid robots. Sure they might fail, but it's an exciting venture to follow.