Damn. It’s the end then. That can only mean the robots are ready for the streets. Literally, THE STREETS.
Think about it. He’s in the government (non-elected) and they are deploying ICE agents everywhere.
The robots will 100% be seen standing at street corners “keeping the peace” within a year.
Omfg am I crazy, or is this realistic? Please just tell me I’m wrong and there’s no chance.
lol this is hilarious. kick the bucket+++++++. this may be fun to watch.
Wtf is going on in that picture? Is there a Tesla with Delorean doors?
They are called Gull-Wing Doors and yes, the model X.
Huh, I had no idea. Literally never seen that until now. And they’re called Delorean doors, thank you!
They are not called DeLorean doors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull-wing_door
Nazis deserve a punch in the face, not money.
Boycott Tesla and Nazi led companies. Do not buy their products, do not buy their stock. Ensure any investment funds you have are free of Nazis.
In keeping with Musk’s Swasticar theme, the new Model S will be the called the SS.
So basically the cars are not selling, but he doesn’t want to be seen to be closing the factories.
It’s total bullshit. They don’t need to do anything to the factory. They haven’t made X and Y in Fremont for 2 years. There isn’t anything to retool or any space to reuse.
The factory already frequently takes manufacturing breaks for days at a time. If he had a robot to build, they have capacity, but let’s not fool ourselves. There is nothing to manufacture or deliver.
You’re dead on, this is just him hoping he can fool people into thinking they still even need his factories at full capacity. Pretty sure they don’t.
This. They’ll shut down for retooling, open up to churn out a small number of robots that do nothing, and claim success while firing most of the staff.
Well the contract he signed for ~$1 trillion by 2035 specifies he has to deploy 1 million robots and 1 million robo-taxis. Which I can see happening.
The issue I see with it is he has to get Tesla car deliveries up to 20 million a year. To put that into perspective, new car sales in the U.S. has never hit 20 million vehicles that I know of. Globally I just saw their sales were at less than 2 million.
So chopping the $80,000+ models and keeping the ~$40,000 models that make up 97% of their sales makes sense. He needs something that will gather a lot of new sales, and there aren’t mass amounts of people with $100k to buy a new car.
My bet is on him selling cars to himself somehow
Nah, he’ll have the government buy them as fleet cars.
SpaceX are ‘buying’ all the Cyber Trucks no-one wants.
Weren’t local police departments looking at the cyber truck, ran trials, and said lol, no thanks
Good point ($1 million x $100,000 for cars)+($1 million x 500,000 for robots) is still less than a trillion $.
No?
This will be a glorious failure.
Even if his robots were ready for primetime (they’re not), I don’t see how he’s going to be able to price them affordably, given the RAM shortages.
They don’t need to be affordable, they will be subscribed to. What, poor, you don’t have the iRobot subscription?
Or I’m a fucking Nazi and no one will by my shit anymore.
Sadly, lots of fucking morons are still buying their shit.
Fewer, but lots.
There’s going to be plenty of idiots that will see the never proven mostly unusable robot as a good thing for the company. Another trillion dollar bonus package approved!
Ain’t nobody gonna buy your stupid Nazibots either, di ckhead. You are universally despised.
Not universally unfortunately. Republicans/racists still think he’s pretty great.
Still? I hardly hear about the guy’s antics anymore.
Optimus robots? Do they have a crossover truck model called Prime? Is it actually a decepticon?
Crowd control Decepticon
Thinking about this further down the road: What happens when the company stops making cars altogether or drops support? Do these smart cars still function without having to call home, or do they effectively become bricks on wheels?
Bricks on wheels. They leverage AWS services last spelunking showed.
Lol
Did Tesla stock go up on this glorious news?
Actually better than expected, so yes.
Ironically, yes
