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Re:Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists... by rayiner on Sunday April 06, 2025 @11:22AM (#43602097)
> The point I soured on Musk was when he ditched radar/lidar and tried to go with camera's alone. This made me realize he is not the genius he is made out to be but instead he is a fraud/charlatan and over the years his statements on different topics have only hardened that belief.

Yeah, he was arguably wrong about one thing so his building both the world's leading EV company and the world's leading private rocket company was fake.

As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Between Tesla, SpaceX, and arguably now xAI, the probability of Musk's genius being a fluke or fraud is close to zero.

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Re:Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists... by watwut on Sunday April 06, 2025 @11:37AM (#43602205)
He was not wrong about one thing, he was frequently wrong. He is highly charizmatic bullshitter that gets away with fraud and lies, that can secure help from people when he needs.

But, he is frequently wrong, it just does not matter. He was occasionally right, like with Tesla back then.

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Re:Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists... by stephenapple on Sunday April 06, 2025 @11:55AM (#43602388)
Of total road deaths per year, 14% are Motorcycles, and the 5 Tesla fatalities are 0.0008% of motorcycle deaths. I think a more poignant subject is how did they have us arguing over this so quickly? Most posts are just anti-Elon. Boggling...
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Re:Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists... by fzeroracer on Sunday April 06, 2025 @07:07PM (#43605738)
> probability of Musk's genius being a fluke or fraud is close to zero.

We already know he's an objective fraud because he literally cheats at video games and was caught cheating. As in, he hired people to play for him and then pretended the accomplishments were his own. Which maps very well to literally everything he's done.

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