“My predictions Getting full self-driving has been optimistic in the past, “Musk Investors were admitted In 2023. “I am the boy who cried FSD.” He is definitely. Many times. In fact, Musk has a long history of making outlandish promises and incomplete predictions about its businesses – and it is a habit that is difficult to break.
On Tesla Earning call With investors in Late April, Elon Musk reportedly seemed to As he was forced to accept a condolence 71 percent dip In profit. Defensive, and appears to have a positive spin between strict consequences, Kasturi made some promise: car manufacturer will become the world’s leading robotics company, “We can get on earth closest to heaven“(He has doubled on it, saying that his robot will be demanded GreedyAnd earlier this month he claimed that the robot would have a number Tens billions And “be like your own individual C-3po or R2-D2, but even better.”)
On call, despite the sale of your company’s aging cars worldwide and Demand for pit for cybercMusk said that “the future for Tesla is more bright than ever.” He batted rapidly as a rapid decline in sales only as a “close-term headwind”, urging investors to ignore non-amay-car business and assess the “price of the company”, which assess the “price of the company” on “providing permanent abundance with our cheap AI-operated robots”.
Nevertheless, even though Musk has a long history of broken promises, but the investor seemed soaked with the stories of Tesla to crush the domination of the market, not as a car company today, but as Robotics Bhamthi Musk claims it will be soon.
Wired examined full self -driving, hyperloop, robotaxis, and yes, the history of musc pledge on everything from the robot armies, in which the reality in the world of Elon rarely matches rhetoric with a view to reminding themselves, its fans and investors. Apparently, the “next year” the forecast of the decline of the musk changes repeatedly, only continuously wrong.
“My predictions have a very good track record,” Musk told Tesla Staff in one All-hand meeting in MarchHere is a chronological eye on that track record.
19 years of broken promises
August 2006: False start
“(Our) is to build a wide range of long -term plan models, including affordable priced family cars,” wrote by Elon Musk Tesla Secret Master Plan Hosted on Tesla website 19 years ago. “When someone buys Tesla Roadster, he said,” they are actually helping to pay for the development of a low -cost family car. “
In Master Plan, Part DexWritten 10 years after the first plan, Musk reiterated that even though Tesla had not yet given the promise of 2006, it planned to build a “cheap, high-trunk car”. 2016 came and went without an entry level car. In January this year, Musk said that-At the end-Tela will start production of affordable models in the second half of 2025.
However, in April, Reuters reported That Tesla had abolished plans for cheap family cars. Musk Posted on X That “Reuters lying (again),” receiving the reaction of the Reuters “(musk) No specific impurities identified” A Tesla source told Reuters Instead of a long -promised cheap family car, “Alone’s instructions have to know everyone on robotaxi.”
August 2013: Hyperloop Hyp
While he was not directly in any of the hyperloop companies, in one 58-white white paper Title “Hyperloop Alpha”, Musk wrote “A new open source form of transport that can revolutionize the journey.” It was not. Was hyperloop Closed in 202310 years after the first time was proposed – but till late by 2022, there was Musk Still promising Hyperloop can be “less than half an hour” from Boston to New York City.
A form of magnetic levity (maglev) capsules in an air-developed steel tube on stilts, Hyperloop described as “Ultra-Haha-Speed ​​Public Transportation System” on the company’s website in which passengers travel in autonomous electric pods at 600+ mph. “This detail has been removed since then, but was Dominated by electricTesla and SpaceX engineers worked on hyperloop two years before the project Taken by other companies In 2017.
