Re:Welcome to Hell, Elon
by ilyt on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:29AM
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More like bewilderment on how many times someone can not deliver on promise yet still get people throwing money at them
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Millions of electric cars, thousands of charging stations, thousands of powerwalls, thousands of Starlink satellites and re-usable rockets weren't delivered?
No one delivers 100%, but that's a historically exceptional track record.
Re:Welcome to Hell, Elon
by bryanlarsen on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:36AM
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Elon predicted in 2013 that Tesla would be shipping 500,000 cars a year by 2020. That was a crazy insane prediction that he delivered on, among many other similar predictions.
Nobody expects all predictions to come true -- professional futurists have a batting rate of about 10%.
I'm talking about stuff people preordered and still didn't got, not on his predictions.
Re:Welcome to Hell, Elon
by cercatrova on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:00PM
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Maybe people should stop preordering then. It's a dumb practice anyway, in any field, not just Teslas.