46 points

People are already jumping to defend it as “a preview on where technology is headed”.

How would they know? Musk and his minions keep lying about their technology.

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Musk is a pathological liar

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That’s like if i made a presentation and showed back to the future 2 and said: well, that’s how our hoverboards will look and function

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Only a couple years away man! Self driving cars, living on Mars, so close!

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How is this any different than fraudster Trevor Milton of Nikola showing footage of Nikola vehicles using gravity to go downhill, but pretending that they were a functioning concept and running on their own power?

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All that money and engineering to have a human still needed to do the job of a human lol.

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The fact that this obvious liar and fraudster is the worlds richest human has just broken my brain. My god humans are stupid.

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Unfortunately, that’s how you get there. Lying and harming people.

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oh, I get it. the target of my ire isn’t just elmo, it’s the fact that so many smoothbrains can’t see the naked truth.

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Not sure why Elon didn’t just call them ‘Drones’ instead of ‘Robots’ - since it’s a given that drones are human controlled with varying levels of process automation now.

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