He never was our best hope for anything. What a mad thing to say.
Until now his satellites had been helping out Ukrainians massively as well.
Had he not diverged into the Trump wake and AI scams (amongst other things) he would have been very much net positive for mankind.
I think he intended/intends to do good he just got gradually corrupted by success/money/power. Pinning down how and why a good person becomes bad is important lest we leave no lessons for the next generations and we keep repeating the same mistakes.
Just for the record, electric vehicles were first on the road more than a century ago.
Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. The engineers become CEO and CFO, respectively.
Musk moved in as a Series A funding financier, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page invested in the company during its Series B round, as did many others over the early years.
Lotus Cars (British company famous for sports and race cars) provided the chassis and body design of Tesla's first vehicle, The Roadster.
> Had he not diverged into the Trump wake and AI scams (amongst other things) he would have been very much net positive for mankind.
That still leaves him screaming "pedo" when he tried to insert himself into a cave rescue, etc.