At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, perhaps a short-seller paid an employee to sabotage. It is not out of the realm of possibility, especially since $TSLA is at a whopping 33% float short.
"The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad. His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not promoting him was definitely the right move."
that's pretty short sighted cheesy hollywood movie reply. you can just get from this dismissing statement how much they care about their employees. a better reply would've been "we'll launch a review to see how it got to this point / what made this person behave this way".
yeah but joe average shareholder is pumping his fist yelling "LOL, i love Elon, god he is so funny! Go Tesla!"
What in here indicates ex-CIA operative to you? Theres no need to add any conspiracy around it. Adding a commit with a different username is incredibly trivial to anyone who can run commit with the command line, i.e. 99% of software engineers. As for exporting data to unknown third parties, I have seen interns do this by accident. Its not complicated or needs rare skills to do a lot of damage internally.
If Tesla runs fast and loose with ideas like their PR pieces suggest, I doubt their security is incredibly top notch in terms of locking down internal threats either
~$10B in shorts...
It should also be pointed out that there was recently a very public revelation about a Silicon Valley startup that made big noise about disrupting a stagnant industry whose technology was accused as being impossible which turned out to be a massive fraud. Tesla is a company which has certainly failed to meet many of its projected milestones, and whose public stature is partially based on a major technology which has failed to deliver so far (Autopilot). Undoubtedly, many people are liable to find the comparison too similar for comfort.
Focusing on the loop stuff specifically, even if it’s not the optimal transport solution it’s better than the alternative “better” solution that will be in a state of decay by the time it’s finished or never see the light of day at all. Musk doesn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good and I think that’s important in an age where it’s more normal for major infrastructure projects to collapse on themselves or otherwise get gummed up indefinitely than it is for them to succeed.
I don’t endorse his behavior on Twitter lately but I do feel that the efforts of his companies have merit.
Musk may tweak peoples jealousy buttons - and I truly think that jealousy of him personally is behind a lot of the criticism - but on the other hand, there is so much progress behind him that its almost ridiculous to hear the critics pulling hard on whatever loose strings they can find.
I mean, the criticism may be warranted - but I think a great deal of respect and honest attribution is warranted, too. The statistics as to what has been accomplished as a result of Musks' crazy ideals demonstrate that, sometimes it seems, to push the human species forward you have to be a little crazy, outside the norms of the collective. ITT, people who haven't yet recognised this fact ..
That seems a very strained comparison. Theranos lied about how their core technology worked. Tesla has already designed, manufactured and shipped multiple models of cars, and we're really discussing whether they can hit quarterly shipping goals, not whether they can delivery a specific product. This is just a matter of scale (and thus to some degree price), not a matter of whether their product is vaporware.
Autopilot is the closest to being somewhat related to the Theranos debacle, but it's not the most compelling portion of Tesla by far (as evidenced by how popular they were before it was released). That said, it also is actually released, and it's just a matter of how well it functions, not whether it functions. It's not like Tesla hired a bunch of people to remotely control cars as drones when autopilot is used and then represented that as some form of self-driving.
There are valid criticisms to be leveled at Tesla and Musk, but likening it to Theranos, whose CEO is now facing criminal charges, is not one of them (at least yet), so I hope there aren't too many people doing so.
Tesla fandom is based on futurism. Take regular driver assistance, call it autonomous self driving driverless cars and make a cult of personality around Elon musk. If BMW sold substandard cars at a higher price than comparative cars, and had fanboys buying it, and yet be rewarded by the stock market for making losses, BMW would be making Model S/X all year long.
Eh, no, it's a car. Not particularly great or luxurious at that.
And seriously, iPhone isn't just a phone, seriously?
> And seriously, iPhone isn't just a phone, seriously?
Not sure how old you are, but if you want just a phone look at feature phones, seriously ;)
By the way, any feature phone is much better than iPhone as... a phone, you know, to call people and stuff. Even as smartphones Apple products aren't unicorn magic. Neither are Teslas. Riding in one, they can barely compete with a mid-range Hyundai.
There is no electronics product in history that sold more than the iPhone. I don't know what meets your high standards.
Not really, burgers are not electronic products.
If you want something computer-related, Windows is clearly the greatest, bestest OS of all times. Electronics? Bose must sound really well. Etc., etc.