Elon's Antics

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I jumped when the tyre marks were swerving to the left. I thought the car would follow that. Right after, yep.
 
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I jumped when the tyre marks were swerving to the left. I thought the car would follow that. Right after, yep.
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If you're talking about this:

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That's the shadow of the power lines.
 

Summary

Tesla’s Autopilot chief, Ashok Elluswamy, admitted that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) is “lagging by a couple of years” behind Waymo, which he called the current benchmark.

He defended Tesla’s vision-only approach as more cost- and power-efficient, but acknowledged it’s technically harder than using lidar.

Despite recent test failures—like FSD running a red light—Tesla is counting on its massive fleet data advantage to catch up.

However, Ashok's timing undercuts Elon Musk’s claims ahead of Tesla’s promised robotaxi debut in Texas next month, highlighting that fully autonomous driving is still not ready.

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The 2025 Axios Harris Poll 100 reputation rankings were published this week and the results for Musk companies are apalling


Let's start with Tesla. I looked back to the entire history of Tesla in this poll, and made this chart for you. From a high of 8th position in 2021, Tesla has crashed to 95th

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Scrolling to the bottom of the list of 100, we see that Musk's companies are well represented, with SpaceX at 86th (slightly ahead of Boeing), Tesla at 95th is handily beaten by UnitedHealth. Xitter, to its credit, squeaked in ahead of the Trump Organization and Spirit Airlines.

To make it onto this list, companies have to be "most visible". Here's their methodology (the emphasis is mine) -

Respondents are asked which two companies — in their opinion — stand out as having the best reputation today and which two have the worst. All nominations are compiled into an aggregate list to determine the "most visible" companies.

In other words, we get to see the best and the ****tiest on this list.

Here is the ****** end of the list:-
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The 2025 Axios Harris Poll 100 reputation rankings were published this week and the results for Musk companies are apalling


Let's start with Tesla. I looked back to the entire history of Tesla in this poll, and made this chart for you. From a high of 8th position in 2021, Tesla has crashed to 95th

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Scrolling to the bottom of the list of 100, we see that Musk's companies are well represented, with SpaceX at 86th (slightly ahead of Boeing), Tesla at 95th is handily beaten by UnitedHealth. Xitter, to its credit, squeaked in ahead of the Trump Organization and Spirit Airlines.

To make it onto this list, companies have to be "most visible". Here's their methodology (the emphasis is mine) -

Respondents are asked which two companies — in their opinion — stand out as having the best reputation today and which two have the worst. All nominations are compiled into an aggregate list to determine the "most visible" companies.

In other words, we get to see the best and the ****tiest on this list.

Here is the ****** end of the list:-
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I think we all know how this is going to play out if Musk or Trump are made aware - Axios are going to be accused of being funded by the Democrats, that all of the polling was done in blue states and that if they'd polled all of America, Trump and Musk's companies would all be in the top 10!
 
Meanwhile, the town that Elon bought is proposing a citywide rezoning which is probably aimed to start forcing out the people who aren't SpaceX employees.


Really wouldn't surprise me if in a few years all SpaceX employees are required to live there and they're getting paid exclusively in company scrip or Dogecoins or something.
 

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