XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:42:43 -0500 (EST), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   Sherman) wrote:   
      
   >Elon Musk, ten years ago:   
   > |   
   > | I consider autonomous driving to be a basically solved   
   > | problem. ... We're less than two years away from complete   
   > | autonomy. Regulators however will take at least another   
   > | year; they'll want to see billions of miles of data.   
   >   
   >Elon Musk, six years ago:   
   > |   
   > | I feel very confident predicting that there will be   
   > | autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year -- not in all   
   > | jurisdictions because we won't have regulatory approval   
   > | everywhere. ... From our standpoint, if you fast forward   
   > | a year, maybe a year and three months, but next year for   
   > | sure, we'll have over a million robotaxis on the road.   
   >   
   >Today:   
   > |   
   > | Tesla's nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start.   
   > | New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla's new disclosure   
   > | of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla's autonomous vehicles   
   > | are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers, and   
   > | that's with a safety monitor in every car.   
   > | ...   
   >   
   >   
   >    --bks   
      
   Gosh he's marketing a product.  You mean he's *gasp* LYING?   
      
   Oh and he is no neo-Nazi.  Your overuse of the term has made it   
   meaningless.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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