“My predictions In the past, it is hoped to get full self -driving, “Kasturi confessed to investors in 2023.” I am the boy who stopped the FSD. “Of course. Many times, Musk has a long history of foreign promises and incomplete predictions about his business. And this is a habit that seems difficult to break.
On the call of Tesla with investors at the end of April, Elon Musk allegedly grieved because he was forced to recognize 71 percent of the harassing dip in profit. Catching for a positive spin in defensive, and seemingly serious consequences, Musk promises an incredible thing: Car maker will become the world’s leading robotics company, launching “the closest thing we can come to Earth.” (After that he has doubled it, saying that the demand for his robot would be irreparable, and earlier this month he claimed that the robots would be in the billions and “your own personal C-3PO or R2-D2, but even better.”)
Elon Musk at San Carlos, California, 2006 at the headquarters of Tesla.
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On the call, despite the demand for sale and demand for cyber trucks around the world’s worldwide, Musk emphasized that “the future of Tesla is more bright than ever.” It simply ended the fall in sales as “near -term heads”, urging investors to ignore the non -autonomous car business and review the “company price” on the “supply of sustainable abundance with our cheap AI -powered robot”.
Nevertheless, although Musk has a long history of broken promises, investors felt comfortable with the stories of crushing market domination for Tesla, not as today’s car company, but as robotics behemoth Musk claims it will soon become.
The wired, in view of reminding himself, his fans, and investors, reviewed the history of the Musk’s promises on everything from the robot, and yes, the robot armies. Clearly, the “next year” Musk’s Fallback predicted repeatedly, just to prove to be permanently wrong.
“The track record of my predictions is great,” Musk told Tesla staff at the All Hands meeting in March. ” Here is a historical look on this track record.
19 years of broken promises
August 2006: Invalid start
“(Our) Long -term plan is to build many models, including reasonable family cars, in the Tesla’s website 19 years ago.” “When a Tesla Roadster buys, they are really helping to pay for the development of a low -cost family car,” he added.
In the Master Plan, Part Dox, which was written 10 years after the first project, reiterated that, although Tesla had not yet complied with the 2006 promise, it still plans to make a “cheap, high volume car”. 2016 came and went without any internal level. In January this year, Musk said – the final – Tesla will start developing a cheaper model in the second half of 2025.
The first generation with Tesla Roadter in 2006.
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However, in April, Reuters reported that Tesla had terminated cheap family car projects. Kasturi posted on X that “Reuters (again) are lying,” gives rise to Reuters’ reactions that (Kasturi) did not identify any particular mistakes. ” Tesla’s source told Reuters that instead of a long -term cheap family car, “Elon’s instruction is to work on robotics.”
August 2013: Hyperloop Hype
Although he was not a direct owner of any hyperlap companies, in a 58 -page white paper titled “Hyperloop Alpha”, Musk wrote about the “new open source form of transportation” that could revolutionize the journey. This didn’t happen. Hyperlope was closed in 2023, 10 years after its first suggestion – but by the end of 2022, Musk was still promising that Hyperlope Boston could go to New York City in less than half an hour.
In a shape of magnetic levitation (megif) capsule, in the steel tube found on steel tube, Hyperlope was described on the company’s website that “there is a high -speed public transportation system in which passengers travel in autonomous electric beans of 600+ miles per hour.” This details have been removed then but the Electric documented it. Engineers from Tesla and Space X worked for two years on hyperlap, before the project was picked up by other companies in 2017.
