ELON Musk is a pioneer in engineering and has seen many high-flying claims fall flat.
Take a look at some of the statements Musk would rather forget.
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By 2019, self-driving cars
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Musk declared in 2017 that it would take “”About two years“To create a self driving car that people can sleep in, while it is moving.
It is now 2022. Tesla does have an auto-pilot program. But there have been some cases. Teslas struck pedestrians while self-driving..
Smart Summons – which calls the car to the owner from a space in the parking lot – allowed a driverless Tesla to fly directly into a private $3.5million-dollar jet.
It is far from being a fully autonomous road.
COVID-19 would be eliminated by April 2020
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Musk made a poor decision regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in the chaotic early days of the crisis, when there were many more questions than answers.
He will be retiring on March 6, 2020. Tweet “the coronavirus panic is dumb”As of COVID-19, the number of deaths has surpassed 3,000 around the world.
He doubled his efforts and declared that there would be “probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April,”In a TweetIt’s safe for us to say that the world’s wealthiest man was not quite right after almost 90million cases.
Botched Twitter purchaseout
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“Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it,”Musk made the comments in April documents that were shared with the Twitter board.
Musk’s attempt to acquire Twitter has kept him in the limelight – his Twitter following has grown by the tens and millions, and his promise to reinstate the Twitter account of former President Trump earned him the admiration of conservatives online.
The deal fell apart. Musk plans to pull out. Even if the deal is good, he will not be able to walk away from this mess.
His personal wealth has declined by $65billionSince he entered Twitter, the whole stunt has spooked Tesla shareholders. The stock price of the electric car company has seen a significant drop since then.
Depending on how the court case ends, musk could be liable for a $1billion termination charge.
Multiple Starship Explosions
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It is important to remember that what goes up must also go down (in pieces).
Musk was the most popular 2016 model , “if things go according to plan, we should be able to launch people probably in 2024 with arrival in 2025.”
SpaceX has tested Starship, a rocket that SpaceX hopes will become its flagship spacecraft. But on four occasions, it exploded.
Musk’s humans-on Mars prediction has been pushed back several years.
Musk claims that the new Starship will be called “The New Starship”.Ready to Fly“This month, with more launches scheduled for August and September.
The world is waiting to see one more of Musk’s hypotheses test.
“These are just guesses, people shouldn’t hold me to these things,” Musk In a TED interview. “The point is not that it was a few years late, but that it happened at all.”
Musk has many open-ended predictions – he thinks he will put people on Mars in 2029. Artificial intelligence may be more dangerous that nukesAnd that we are all living in a simulation.