"Yes sir we got Tesla, right here in River City. With a capital 'T'..."
Posted on 07/10/2016 12:58:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, under pressure after a fatal crash involving one of his electric cars, went on Twitter Sunday to say he’s working on another “Top Secret Tesla Masterplan.” He said he hoped to publish details this week.
The tantalizing message echoes an August 2006 blog post, titled “The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me),” in which Musk unveiled the cars that became the Tesla Model S four-door family car and the Tesla 3 sports sedan. …
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How many of my tax dollars is this plan gonna cost?
Tesla may need to follow Google’s example and go slow on the self driving car. If its not ready, it’s just not ready for the public. Try it in specific circumstances first, such as a
bus going stop to stop. I could see myself using that. But sitting in a car passively while being pushed to and fro at the robot’s pace, I don’t know. I’m not ready to give up the control and the occasional FUN that driving can be.
It can be FUN figuring out how to navigate a busy highway at rush hour, or using one’s reflexes to avoid a near miss.
I wouldn’t have the same pleasure if a machine were trusted to do it all for me.
Exactly...his new Masterplan is to rape the US taxpayers before the Donald takes office.
Wind generator on the roof?
Obama will be all in.
“How to spend taxpayer dollars on green schemes and make billions doing it” -Elon Musk
I’m sure he’s building a flying car.
“Top Secret Tesla Masterplan.”
And only those with a decoder ring can figure it out.
I’ll wait until it can avoid obstacles in front, befre I can trust it to avoid things above, below, and behind me.
Yeah.. the biggest thing that people are neglecting with these self-driving cars is ....
... Cars get dirty.
And those cameras are right at the maximum dirt level.
I really don’t know why people aren’t talking about this.
Funny you say “Flying Car.”
As a recovering aircraft engineer I have made a good deal of money consulting for “flying car” start up companies. I have worked with three companies from ground up to ultimate failure. Once you hit that wall of the feds you stop. (By the way... Having worked with the FAA it is one of the VERY few federal agencies that are filled with experienced aircraft engineers and they fulfill an extremely important roll. I have the utmost respect for the FAA and several of my friends and colleagues went to work for them after stellar careers as engineers.)
No matter how good the flying car concept is there is the impenetrable gorilla of the FAA. You simply can not just roll out in your flying car and jet off somewhere. The two technologies do not easily coexist.
That being said... What Musk has done is managed to buy the government with his “green” approved progressive fantasies. If he is indeed planning a flying car this means he has the NTSB, EPA, and the FAA in his pocket. The ONLY way, and I say that with some authority, to get a realistic flying car with mass appeal is to drag the entire FAA and federal government dinosaur along with your plan.
That’s kinda funny.. I just said the same thing to someone here in private message.
Getting the FAA to go along with a plan is the definition of baby steps. I’m seriously impressed with the work of the ICON team in their water plane.
They bent over to the FAA, but got the FAA to even introduce the white whale of a new licence scheme. That AMAZES me.
More Fascism?
As an aside, it pisses me off that this crony capitalist dares to use Tesla’s name.
“First Rule of Aircraft Design: If the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the Aircraft, then it will fly.”
"Yes sir we got Tesla, right here in River City. With a capital 'T'..."
And all it will take are more billions in govt grants.
The plans are to have vehicles talk to each other.
I dont want them deciding my car is the one to crash if an accident is going to happen.
I will not own a self driving car.
Remember how the segway turned out.
Now you cant be on a sidewalk without one.
Double the paper work and you’re half way there.
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