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Elon Musk’s Greatest Hits of ‘Puffery’: Tesla We Robot Event
I react to Elon Musk’s remarks from the flashy Tesla We, Robot event held in Los Angeles. Elon’s presentation can been seen as a kind of greatest hits of his “corporate puffery” from the past few years, with some new products, and adding more to his vision of the future, that he says will soon become a reality. Timestamps: 01:05 Definition of Elon’s “corporate puffery” 03:09 Elon’s Welcome to the We, Robot Party 05:06 Vision of an exciting future - Unsupervised Full Self-Driving 05:56 Low cost but Increased value with autonomy 06:58 FSD safety - 10x safer than a human 08:31 Low cost of…
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