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Re:Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements by danso on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:37PM (#18017930)
Musk had repeatedly challenged reporters to “investigate” Vernon Unsworth, and they did. They found no criminal records in the UK or Thailand, no marriage records, and AFAIK, no record of Unsworth visiting or moving to Thailand in the timespan Musk describes. They did however find Unsworth’s girlfriend, who is in her 40s and had been posting about her relationship on social media for years, which would support Unsworth’s assertions that he had first visited Thailand in 2011.

If Musk is as good as a human as his devout fans think he is, he’ll put truth and his grand hopes for humanity over his ego, and give Unsworth — who let’s not forget, was essential to saving those boys’ lives — a proper apology and compensation.

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Re:Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements by stochastic_monk on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:02PM (#18018152)
I hope he does this not because he’s a good person but just because I want Tesla to succeed and I don’t want his stupidity to ruin its chances.
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Re:Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements by watwut on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @05:11PM (#18019163)
Maybe Tesla needs to fail in the market. After seeing how he behaves on twitter, I just cant imagine the chain of command in Tesla works effectively internally. With the leader so fragile in terms of ego, so easy to go ballistic and with seemingly no ethical limits on how he treats those who don't instantly bend to him.

He seems to care more about building personality cult around himself then about running business.

There are plenty of companies with toxic cultures, it is not like that would be unusual. But here, I just cant imagine people under Musk ever telling him he is wrong or telling him about problems. I would guess that his grasp of reality will be increasingly wrong. To a degree it is normal, of course, but here it seems to go really to extremes.

Electric cars will come with or without them.

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Re:Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements by Fricken on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:14PM (#18018250)
Many argue that you can't have Tesla without Musk, but I don't believe that's true. There is a paradox that can be observed over and over throughout history: great conquerors rarely make great managers. What Tesla needs now is a manager.
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