Elon Musk's timelines are meaningless
Sherwood News
Tesla Q2 2024 earnings call
“I would be shocked if we cannot do it next year”
Elon Musk23 July 2024- What you'll lose1/5
The robotaxi ride, postponed again.
- Condescension0/5
Confident as ever.
- Tone-deafness2/5
'Shocked' is doing a lot of work.
- Doom0/5
None.
- Hypocrisy4/5
He made a similar 'next year' robotaxi promise in 2019.
Full time7 pitchforksof a possible 25
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The occasion
Tesla Q2 2024 earnings call, 23 July 2024.
Context
Asked when Tesla would have unsupervised full self-driving, and so the first robotaxi rides, Musk said he thought it possible that year and 'shocked' if not the next. Electrek reports the same answer with the word 'surprised' rather than a verbatim quote, so the exact words are from Sherwood News. Musk had made a similar 'next year' promise of robotaxis at Tesla's 2019 investor day.
Crowd reaction
Critical commentary
Sherwood News wrote that 'Musk continuously puts out wildly incorrect timelines only to walk them back' and recalled his 2019 line 'I feel very confident predicting autonomous robotaxis for Tesla next year'. Electrek said: 'Going forward, it's good to ignore all of Elon's timing on FSD and just listen to Tesla's much more cautious official comments'. Tesla stock fell about 8% premarket the next day, per Sherwood.