re: Tesla is unveiling its latest technological innovation at 9:30 PM CST tonight [LIVE]

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The labor force is going to be significantly reduced with these technological innovations. I can see these things doing home improvement jobs.

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Venezuelans would run laps around these things.

Why are you shitting on this?

Our country's infrastructure looks like frick nothing looks slightly futuristic. It looks like the same crap it did 50 years ago only dirtier.

He's legit half insane and half visionary. It's his money and his company and if he wants to give us shite that finally looks like something out of blade runner or total recall I'm 100% in.

His autistic arse is drilling tunnels under cities, launching rockets to Mars with Tesla cars strapped to the outside, building a half decent electric charging network, making self driving cars a reality, trying to bring free speech to social media and now he wants to put robots in our homes that will kill us.

Name someone else doing anything like this.

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Why would you waste money on a robot bartender? If you want to automate a bar, there a cheaper and more efficient ways to do it

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Andrej Karpathy (sp?) former head of machine learning at Tesla talked about this on the Lex podcast a while back when the robot was mentioned.

You're, right if the only goal was to automate a bar, you could probably find a more efficient solution than a humanoid robot. However, that is a very very narrow application.

Our world is designed for the human form factor, doorways/handles/signs etc. if you want something that can translate across tasks, operating in human form is going to be the most efficient.

So if you're running a bar, you buy one because it can serve drinks and clean the bathroom, or at least that's the proposed goal.

Robo Taxi Event could not have been any more underwhelming.

Stock down 7 percent in the premarket.

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Sub-30k car that is also available for private purchase in 2026

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I love Elon but he does this A LOT.

If he says sub30 and 2026, expect 50+ and 2030.

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If he says sub30 and 2026, expect 50+ and 2030.

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While this is true, if we get a fully functional general purpose humanoid robot for $50k in 2030 that's a hell of a deal. It cooks, cleans, does laundry, puts away groceries delivered by the Walmart robot, walks the dog, mows the lawn, weeds the garden, fixes the plumbing, installs the appliances, etc.

Humanity will be completely free to sit on the couch and have an existential crisis about what our purpose is.

I just can't see what the end goal of all of this is.

Practically, I mean. All of these things these robots can do sound great, but eventually we are going to have to realize a higher purpose if we don't want to sit around and do exactly what you're saying.

If the economy is more efficient, and this goes to best case scenario land where robots are doing all of our menial tasks, driving us places, transport is cheap, maybe goods are cheaper as well, what are we really going to do?

Don't give me the automation is going to give people the ability to work on more complex problems. I believe that, and honestly folks dealing with really technical issues will be okay because it will be decades before this fully replaces most of the workforce, but what about people with no desire to work on those "complex" issues. What about people who, even with their hierarchy of needs met, don't have artistic ambition? What about people who genuinely like building things and doing work that's going to be replaced? Most people hate cleaning, but some people love it. Some people love it so much they have YouTube channels dedicated to it.

Suffering is a part of the human experience. Will suffering just become elevated to the point that most of the population's problems are first world? People with "first world problems" are some of the most miserable around.

I don't know, I like this for myself, and I think that I'll adapt with it, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of humanity is predisposed to be miserable. Perhaps that's a miserable perspective in itself.

There's a whole host of other issues that comes with this as well. I 'm not making a stance of any sort, I genuinely wonder where this is all headed.

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Talk about throwing a bunch of shite at the wall to see what sticks.... This smells of panic.

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So the world’s richest person who has that title by 30 billion, who runs and owns the world’s most influential social media platform, has the most innovative car company in the world AND the company that is responsible for bringing back manned space flight in the United States is “in panic and throwing shite against the wall”



Do you read what you post?

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So the world’s richest person who has that title by 30 billion, who runs and owns the world’s most influential social media platform, has the most innovative car company in the world AND the company that is responsible for bringing back manned space flight in the United States is “in panic and throwing shite against the wall”

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His stock is relatively in the shitter.

He's alienated his core customer base, the ones who want EVs due to environmental concerns.

The Cybertruck was pretty much a flop.

He hasn't released a new car in years.

He's losing his arse on Twitter.

He has a known drug problem and it sure seems its starting to affect his personality.

Waymo already does robot taxi.

Boston Dynamics already has better robots.

A cybervan? Really? YUGE gamechanger, I'm sure.

Objectively speaking, he's spiraling. SpaceX may be his savior but I'm really starting to question just how much involvement he still has in that project. I mean, he obviously owns it, I'm talking day to day.

TSLA is down nearly 10%. Clearly, I'm not the only one who feels this was all a Hail Mary.