re: If Elon hits his incentive stock compensation packages he would be worth $6 trillion

"What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"

Congrats on being dumb

Yea. He was going with his then wife Talulah Riley

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But the email itself is reported as: Epstein asked how many people Musk would bring by helicopter to the island; Musk replied “Probably just Talulah and me,” then asked, “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

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I am sure he was going to frick a bunch of kids while she was there

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Like I see a Tesla on the road about once a month, 

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Where the hell do you live a cattle ranch?

I live in suburbs of a big city in Tesla's are easily amongst the most popular car models I see.

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Why are you so angry?

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It's pretty obvious

Elon fricked his mom and made him watch

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How many robotaxis are they developing?

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This and Starlink I think are going to be his big moneymakers in the long run.

I got a new Model Y (Juniper) last year and I love it. And I'm not even a car guy. It's quiet, super smooth, has incredible acceleration. I love the tech in general (being able to use my phone as my "key", being able to "summon" it to me if needed).

But the main reason that I bought it was the full self driving, which has been... mixed. What it's capable of doing is insane. If it let me sit in the back seat and watch TV on the monitor, then most of my issues wouldn't be a big deal. But it takes some stupid arse routes. It waits until the last second to change lanes to turn onto streets/interstate exits, can't get into the lane it needs to, then has to go to the next street/exit and backtrack. That costs time. It drives like a bitch at stop signs (the government forces them to). It's incredible at seeing and reacting to things that the driver wouldn't be able to see or react to fast enough. It struggled with tailgaiting for a long time, but that has been fixed in the newest updates.

The biggest issue, though, is that there are simply some areas that the Teslas don't have sufficient cameras/view angles to properly handle. This is an absolutely awful interstate on-ramp near the Superdome:
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It's horribly designed, with no space to merge, and awkward elevation changes + guardrails blocking your view. The first time FSD went this route, it flew through the yield sign without issue. I could not believe that it actually saw oncoming traffic that it merged into. The next time FSD brought me there, I took over, stopped at the yield sign (no one was behind me), and waited for someone to drive past me in the lane that it's merging into. I watched the screen (which shows everything the cameras see) as people in that lane drove past me. It could NOT see those vehicles. Even the newest Tesla vehicles ("Hardware 4") still need more cameras, particularly in the very front/sides of the vehicle, and also some cameras above the doors. It would cost more money, and the higher up cameras would look awkward, but they need it. Some sort of LIDAR antenna might work as well in lieu of the higher cameras. Either that, or the FSD needs to know which trouble spots (like the one I linked) to avoid.

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Elon gets companies valued at about 50 times as much as they should be worth. Like I see a Tesla on the road about once a month, yet Tesla was supposedly more valuable on the stock market than Ford at one point. Also, he gets people excited about doing these space trips that we already accomplished way back in the 1960s. And I can't imagine that SpaceX should really be worth $1.75-2 trillion as has been rumored.

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The difference between musk and ford is more than about just the car. The self driving technology that musk has is not far from totally disrupting the rideshare industry. An industry that is hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Ford can barely keep a car on the road for 100k miles without some type of expensive catostrophic despite modern manufacturing and engineering.

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Elon fricked his mom and made him watch

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I feel like he'd get over that and turn it into some sort of sick point of pride by the way he communicates.

Maybe his mom asked and Elon said no.

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don't care if Elon makes 100 trillion. Most people that contribute much to society don't either.

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