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[–] breadsmasher 51 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

musk also promised full self driving cars, and a mars colony by now

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Do we even know what he promised to all the women?

[–] aramova 6 points 4 months ago

A penis almost as big as his President's.

[–] tankplanker 1 points 4 months ago

A horse, that he wanted to offload anyway as he had a surplus of them from the ranches he purchased to cosplay as a rancher

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] garretble 36 points 4 months ago

Stock goes down, elon makes promise he can’t keep to try and make it go up. Rinse and repeat.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

He's always promising shit that never happens. He's just a stupidly wealthy pub bore.

[–] kameecoding 22 points 4 months ago

He is a scammer, thats called a scam

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

Yeah, there's a loooooong list.

https://elonmusk.today/

[–] db2 -2 points 4 months ago

He's not wealthy. He has credit and morons willing to give it to him.

[–] Buffalox 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Piss off, In 2016 Elon Musk promised full self driving would be ready by the end of 2017.

[–] paraphrand 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I cringe when I remember that I parroted the then current expectations on self driving back then.

[–] Buffalox 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I believed him too back then, usually if a CEO makes such a statement it's pretty solid. Because they are responsible to for instance stock holders.
How he can make all these false claims and promises, and still be rewarded by stock holder with a $55billion bonus, is a mystery to me, as I see it, he is liable towards both stock holders, and customers who bought stock or a Tesla under false pretenses.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

first of many

Humanoid robots exist. They just haven't yet found an application where the existing implementations are more-desirable than alternatives.

[–] CerealKiller01 2 points 4 months ago

No no, they meant first of many unfulfilled promises.

[–] hperrin 9 points 4 months ago

An Elon Musk promise is about as valuable as a pocketfull of lint.

[–] fluxc0 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i’m about to just filter out the word ‘Elon’ on voyager now. nobody fucking cares about this shithead

[–] CosmoNova 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So they renewed their promise from… how many years ago with nothing to show for it?

[–] DevCat 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure it won't have any of the defects of the cyberdumpster.

[–] vegeta 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If he's going for the Cybertruck look, they will probably come out like this:

[–] DevCat 6 points 4 months ago

Unlike Imperial Storm Troopers, they sometimes hit their target.

Judging by Musk's previous styling choices, may I offer this?

[–] LazaroFilm 2 points 4 months ago

Just make cars that work and stick to it.