If Tesla's "We, Robot" event yesterday sounded familiar - it's because Elon Musk repeated a lot of promises and dreams he's stated on earnings calls, at prior events, interviews, etc. Here's a story I did on his Optimus promises from June 2024. www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/e...
At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting Thursday, CEO Elon Musk said the company's jump into humanoid robots could lift its market cap by almost fiftyfold.
One thing that's amazed me on the Tesla beat all these years is how people seem to wake up, then go right back to sleep. The big "robotaxi day" left even stalwart bulls (who have always given Musk a pass) rather unimpressed. www.cnbc.com/2024/10/11/t...
Tesla shares tumbled on Friday after the company's long-awaited robotaxi event failed to impress investors.
Cool that this is a sentence that needs to be written by a journalist: "Although humans can worsen hurricanes by burning fossil fuels, creating a hotter ocean & atmosphere that gives hurricanes more energy, they cannot create, control or steer individual storms" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans
Just re-upping this post about autonomous vehicles for no particular reason.
Changes in demand elasticity & value of travel time have largest effect on vehicle miles traveled, which could be as much as 50 additional km/day per driver. ... this implies carbon footprint of 0.42–0.86 tons of CO2 per driver p.a. from personal car travel. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This article envisions that by the middle of this century fully self-driving Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are available for private use. By considering h…
“Elon Musk’s X social media platform has reportedly worked with Donald Trump’s campaign to censor material that could be harmful to the former president’s White House chances as part of a pattern of election interference that is unprecedented in U.S. history.”
Musk is said to have moved to the critical swing state of Pennsylvania and is considering door knocking as he goes all out to ensure Trump wins the election.
"These days, in private conversations, Mr. Musk is obsessive, almost manic, about the stakes of the election and the need for Mr. Trump to win." www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/u...
Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.
My neighbor is a city traffic engineer. I told him we need real protected bike lanes but he says drivers don’t like it when they hit concrete barriers and damage their cars so cyclists are left with plastic sticks and paint for protection. mass.streetsblog.org/2021/01/26/b...
A parable. When you go under the Bloor viaduct, only sometimes do you see a train. A certain disappointed kid might say, "The train tracks are always empty!" It's true, they are. And yet, that train moves half a million people every day, more than any of Toronto's highways.
