Though he's the CEO of SpaceX, it's really run by Gwynne Shotwell.
You look at his wikipedia, and there's like 10 different things he's currently involved with, so yes, he looks like a guy that gets bored and moves on the other things.
I expect creating tunnels 20 years from now as important as right now.
Traffic jams are not going away magically, but automation can bring the cost of creating tunnels down, which can increase the total market significantly.
Time is helping the company (just like other projects Elon has started), so there's no rush to scale up and turn profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_and_12th_Street_Expressway...
> Motorways and bypasses generate traffic, that is, produce extra traffic, partly by inducing people to travel who would not otherwise have done so by making the new route more convenient than the old, partly by people who go out of their direct route to enjoy the greater convenience of the new road, and partly by people who use the towns bypassed because they are more convenient for shopping and visits when through traffic has been removed
These photos illustrate it well:
https://www.streetroots.org/news/2015/04/03/streets-are-ever...
e-bikes should be banned. Cyclists are the worst. You get far more bad cyclists than you do bad drivers. When living in Australia 12 years ago, i almost got knocked over by cyclists over a dozen times when they run red lights, refuse to slow down.
At one point they were rebuilding the side-walk and so the workers coned off the bike path to let people walk for a week while the pavement work happened, in 1 week that it was closed off I saw cyclists verbally abuse people, myself included, for walking on a cycle way that was blocked off to cyclists and the workmen were tellign them to cycle on the road.
~600 deaths 35,000 hospitalisation due to car accidents.
~85 deaths 13,000 hospitalisation due to cycling accidents.
But in any case when walking in the city I feel safe walking with cars. But I don’t feel safe with cyclists. They rush through red lights. Rush through intersections while people are crossing. I’ve witnessed accidents occur due to cyclists not following the laws. If they followed the laws and slowed down. Stopped and gave way like they are meant to. I wouldn’t have an issue.
Why didn't the workers cone off a lane from the street to make space for the bikes? Cars usually have easier alternatives, they can just take another lane.
EDIT: But anyway, the real viable alternative to cars is probably not bikes, it's trains and buses.
Living in asia I love having MRTs.
Pretty easy to get rid of traffic jams actually, you just get rid of the cars. Never been stuck in traffic in places where there aren't cars.
If you’re going to have a 4 lane road reserve two of the lanes for super high capacity vehicles (busses).
Traffic jams are a byproduct of the limits of physics. Once you reach a certain density it is simply impossible to provide enough private car parking and lane capacity.
What makes you believe this? And that Musk was responsible for it?
So, the LVCC was built at 0.54 km/month, while the Channel tunnel was buildlt at 0.7 km/month.
Which part is false?
However, if we look at freight+people crossing the tunnels, the Channel tunnel surely wins again - it may be roughly 10 times more expensive per km, but it carries orders of magnitudes more, by rail + by car.
Twitter is fundamentally trying to solve a people problem, which is much fuzzier. Every impression I've had from "public Elon" is that he is absolutely wretched at people-problems-at-scale. I'm also not sure there is any human ever who has been able to solve people problems at Twitter's scale.
keynesianism eventually failed because corporations and large capital holders will not act rationally towards the whole when they have interests that benefit themselves. so I suppose you’re right. but that doesn’t change the fact that for a good 30 years his ideas and solutions made life better for a huge number of people
For all practical purposes, doesn't Shotwell run SpaceX and Elon just shows up to give "input", whenever the capital raise du-jour is necessary, and to do the marketing and PR?
It does seem to me he will need another Shotwell for either Tesla or Twitter, though. You can be CEO of as many companies as you want, but if the CEO is also doing the Operations part of the work, then you're constrained to pretty much one company at a time. I wonder if we'll see Jack come back to Twitter.
No.
I don't feel like Musk has really changed, he's always been a bit nuts. He just has a bigger reach now.
Hard stuff takes time. People with no patience and perseverance never gets big stuff done. Musk is not the same.
Basically Musk said that he was just insulting him in a general sense and that the man was not a pedophile
His behavior like… every day and the fact that he apparently accidentally just bought a $44B company doesn’t at least let you see where people are coming from?
The same guy who tweeted "Funding secured". His tweets about starting boring company, and buying twitter. His email exchanges that are now public. He is VERY impulsive and erratic (maybe not hotheaded).
All his tweets on Bitcoin:
https://www.rockwelltrading.com/articles/coffee-with-markus/...
I don't know why people say this when stuff goes wrong for him all the time. He literally just failed to get out of this Twitter deal.
I really don't get where this meme of "impulsive, erratic, hotheaded Musk" comes from given he demonstrated ability to stick with a business in the toughest of times.
Tesla was literally days away from bankruptcy at one time and Musk made it work.
After first 3 failed launches he was about to run out of money and yet he financed another launch, which worked.
He hasn't had a business failure yet.
Is that a guy who gets bored and moves on to something else?