Interesting how this dumb thing has overshadowed SpaceX performing a chopstick landing for Starship. That's a major achievement that suggests SpaceX will meet its goals for Starship. If Elon had a lick of sense, he'd want that to be the top headline on all the feeds.

Instead, it's about this stupid taxi. If anyone thought Elon was still good at self promotion, this should kill it.

Oh, and he spent his after launch speech hawking a cryptocurrency scheme. So that's great. Anybody still want to go to Mars with this guy?

Well they had to save room for all the safety features that are required for them to be remotely driven from North Korea.

The real problem that he failed to show any progress on self-driving. Self-driving has been 2 years away for the past 6 years and that's the only real thing that will pull Tesla out of a downward spiral. Tesla stock is stupidly overpriced and competitors are catching up.

With nothing but empty promises, people are starting to realize that the emperor has no clothes. And really, who wants to see Musk naked? ...that's a bag nobody wants to be left holding.

This unveiling is stupid for, like... uncountable reasons. But are people really regularly riding in cabs that fit more than two people comfortably? Unless I specifically request a bigger vehicle from a cab service, a car with a backseat is usually what I get.

It looks like they were working on the new roadster and Elmo told them they were switching to a driverless cab.

If it were a sports car it would probably sell really well because it’s got the doors that open like this

He's been at the point for some time where he believes being "contrarian" is the same as being "smart".

On a related note...

Full Self Driving coming next year? Or the year after that? Or after that?

Investors jeered the design and the lack of financial detail, with Tesla stocks tumbling 9% on Wall Street on Friday.

I didn't realize this stupid vehicle was a two-seater. What a dumbass move.

What a fucking moron. Dude is so goddamn stupid that every decision he makes is the wrong one. And yet people keep defending him...

I'll take the bus, thanks. At least I will arrive alive at my destination.

I can't wait for one of these to pull up with a puddle of vomit on the seat

I'm sure he's imagining commuter clients using it to go to work every day on a subscription.

Clown man

It may only have 2 seats, but didn't they notice the tires are painted gold. That's an awesome design decision right there! /s
The 2 seats are probably meant to keep the death toll low. 😋

But if they thought the robotaxi was weird, that was nothing compared to the robovan. Almost no clearance and almost no windows, and then Musk exclaimed: Yes! We are gonna build it like that! It's siiick.

neither robo- taxi or van are likely to be moneymakers. They'll be a sinkhole of development cost, that will never come to market.

But more are probably finally catching on, with an event causing the stock to drop 9%.
It's kind of hilarious that Enron Musks attempt to pump the stock failed so bad. 😋

Stop supporting Elon

Seems like the minivan is really the right thing. Can share with multiple folks or have a significant amount of luggage for the airport or such. Easier to serve the handicapped.

To me it makes sense because without the driver, there's less need to maximize passengers per vehicle. Plus the added weight for the extra, often unused seats is a bigger problem for EVs because of the need to minimize weight (which then requires more heavy batteries). Generally the vast majority of taxi trips are one or two people, so you don't wanna make them any bigger than necessary. And if there's 4 people, they can just take 2.

The problem isn't the number of seats, it's that there's no plan for them to become actually self-driving.

That’s because Musk is a dunce.

Didn’t his mom say Leon was developmentally challenged in a twit post?