[1] https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/car-following-tesla-...
Back in the day, the term "snake oil salesman" was used and it is as fresh today as it always was.
I just saw a LinkedIn post from someone totally unrelated to Musk, or Tesla fawning about how amazing the Tesla Optimus robots are, how they are going to operate in space and how he would prefer one to give him surgery over a doctor.
100s of positive interactions followed
Humans seem to need some fiction to believe to get them through their day.
So as long as people don’t demand that reality is the driver of their future they will continue to live in whatever fantasy world that makes them the main character
Sounds like Optimus is already very active on X
I was able to stay off it for so long, but I just had to get back on since I changed roles to CTO and its a whole marketing channel I have to use. That place is trash
Hopefully I can outsource that soon
I think it's more that they want their stock values to stay high (or are simply bots with the same goal).
Used to be religion. Now it’s billionaire saviors.
Tesla's domestic EV manufacturing, Starlink's satellite network, and ofc SpaceX are all critical pieces of American foreign policy. It should be obvious why Tesla is one of the most heavily subsidized companies of all time[0]
[0] https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc
I am not a fan of Elon Musk, I've been skeptical of his accomplishments way before his involvement in politics so I may be a little biased. But it seems to me that Tesla is a failure. The last new model launched was a flop and a subject of general ridicule, they've stopped innovating, the existing models are last in reliability scores and no promises were kept wrt to self-driving, robotaxis, hyperloop or whatever other sci-fi scam was talked about at every shareholder meeting.
I really don't understand how in other areas (such as Enterprise AI or cloud computing in the past) investors want to see actual growth and huge returns and they threaten to pull their money constantly. But when it comes to Tesla in particular, the company keeps getting years and years of leeway while it's failing and failing.
Perhaps the hope is that it will get nationalized or be in some sort of public-private partnership that would ensure perpetual bailouts and it's just a way of sucking off money from the taxpayer?
Humans are the same emotional, irrational apes as we were 100,000 years ago, and the most emotional and irrational thing any of us do, bar none, is delude ourselves by pretending that we aren't.
Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618901 [970 points]
Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-cha... [672 points]
Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-... [299 points]
Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash https://electrek.co/2025/12/15/tesla-reports-another-robotax... 155 points
When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869916 151 points
I even start to wonder if tech people believe Tesla propaganda machine by now.