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This should not be surprising to anyone who pays any attention to Elon Musk's ̶l̶i̶e̶s̶ , er... "predictions"
And yet TSLA sits comfortably at ~$450. If someone knowledgeable can explain this to me, I'd be very grateful.
Maintaining a meme stock is hard, really hard. You do have to hand it to the bloke that he is working hard on this.

Back in the day, the term "snake oil salesman" was used and it is as fresh today as it always was.

There’s no consequences to Musk not delivering and simply making up bullshit.

I just saw a LinkedIn post from someone totally unrelated to Musk, or Tesla fawning about how amazing the Tesla Optimus robots are, how they are going to operate in space and how he would prefer one to give him surgery over a doctor.

100s of positive interactions followed

Humans seem to need some fiction to believe to get them through their day.

So as long as people don’t demand that reality is the driver of their future they will continue to live in whatever fantasy world that makes them the main character

There are only around 50[0] unique vehicles operating in Austin (not all operating at the same time) and initially only about 3 are operating "with no safety monitor in the car." Based on social media posts it seems they all have chaser vehicles.

[0] https://robotaxitracker.com

JerryRigEverything randomly started dissing Tesla's FSD system two days before he posts a sponsored video for Ford's self-driving feature.
It's probably a good thing they are doing this ultra-conservative rollout of robotaxi.
No amount of failed promises, missed deadlines or just plain lies is going to dampen the stock, it’s just the way it is with this. Staying away is the best one can do.
HN is so fucked at this point. For the last year at least, anything critical of elon gets flagged.
Funny all I see here are every single critical Elon post from Fred at Electrek.co gaining hundreds of points

Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618901 [970 points]

Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-cha... [672 points]

Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-... [299 points]

Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash https://electrek.co/2025/12/15/tesla-reports-another-robotax... 155 points

When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869916 151 points

Flagged again by right wing chuds who have to defend anything Elon, Trump or White Supremacy. This site is a joke.