The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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He's been developing AI for a while but his has trouble spotting the difference between a child and air because the genius decided to get rid of radar
Tesla engineers tried to convince Elon Musk not to give up radar for self-driving
A new report states that Tesla engineers tried to convince Elon Musk not to give up on radar for its...
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He's been developing AI for a while but his has trouble spotting the difference between a child and air because the genius decided to get rid of radar
Tesla engineers tried to convince Elon Musk not to give up radar for self-driving
A new report states that Tesla engineers tried to convince Elon Musk not to give up on radar for its...
Did you read your own article?
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However, the situation was a little more complicated than that. Electrek spoke to Musk around the time of the removal of the radar, and the CEO was mostly frustrated with the quality of the radars and still believed that higher definition radars would improve Autopilot/Full Self-Driving.
He told Electrek:
Sure enough, two years later, Tesla is now including a high-resolution radar in its latest sensor suite for Autopilot and Full Self-Driving.
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Seems like they use radar?
Lol why do you think people care as strongly as you do?
It's a thread of BBC journos, what more can we expect
Yes he u turned on it once the phantom braking became an issue, but as far as I know Tesla's still rely on vision only right now
Soldato
What is your obsession with his wealth? Most people aren't motivated by money, as long as they have enough to be comfortable that is enough. The last thing I am envious of his his wealth, if I had it I would have likely given 99% of it away by now because so much good could be done with it and I would take a great deal of pleasure from changing people's lives with it. JK Rowling was a billionaire, she has given away a huge chunk of her wealth and continues to do so, she is a far better person than Elon.
He is doing good with it, he doesn't need to give it to less competent people
Soldato
Is he? Competent? He paid way over twice the valve of Twitter through hubris and incompetence.
Still your post doesn't explain your obsession with his wealth. You seem to be of the opinion that wealth means you are a good person with good motives. It means no such thing.
Because they are envious of it. We all know the right just project, hence the common rebuttal of criticism of Musk is "YoUr jUsT jEaLoUs" , because they are they can't imagine that other people wouldn't be.
Well, the actual value of Twitter was the amount of money needed to buy it. Given the board didn't want to sell it to him even with his offer of apparently twice what it was worth, then perhaps it was just undervalued. I would also suggest that for someone who values giving Western society access to a platform that provides access to open speech and debate, the ability to criticise our governments (and even the billionaires) without fear of being suppressed, the actual value is priceless. So perhaps he got a bargain.
Yet you believe he should give his money to the someone who would "do good" like the US government, or some charity, because they'd spend it better than the man who brought us SpaceX and Tesla. Good one.
Yes.
Almost all of what he says is directly related to his need for self gratification, adulation from others, and money.
Soldato
Hmm didnt they reject an initial offer but when he came back with his much larger one they accepted. Its a while ago now but I think thats how it played out.
Typically when boards do not want to sell they end up being taken over by a hostile takeover, hence the name. Twitter wasn't hostile so I don't think it should be considered that they didn't want to sell.
In fact its hard to argue that they didn't want to accept his offer when they got him to sign a contract with massive penalty should he withdraw from the purchase.
Pretty hard to argue the Twitter was "undervalued" at that purchase price when now a few months after purchasing its worth half that.
Unless you're an insufferable simp that is, then you'll come up with any outlandish explanation of why your idol is right in everything they do.
Unless you're an insufferable simp that is, then you'll come up with any outlandish explanation of why your idol is right in everything they do.
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Soldato
Have you got your horse yet?
Soldato
You'll defend anything Musk related wont you? I bet he could start hanging around the school gates at 3pm everyday and you'd be there to defend him.
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IIRC the board had a legal obligation to seriously consider any offer that was over a certain amount because one of the primary legal responsibilities for the board of a company is to the profit of the shareholders.
They may not have really wanted to do it, but they had to take the offer to the shareholders with a note that it was likely the best offer they'd receive in the near future, and then make sure the contract offered to Musk meant that the company would not be at a loss for any costs incurred in his offer.
The penalties for pulling out suggest that they half expected him to try and renege on the offer and pull out, and wanted to make sure that Twitter didn't lose anything from it.
I'm not surprised that most people in this thread spend hours arguing about Elon Musk, but obviously didn't bother to take the time to listen to the full interview he gave with the BBC. As demonstrated by the post below. If you did you would know the answer. The board didn't want to sell, they used the poison pill tactic, but then bizarrely forced him to buy it later on after he decided he wanted to pull out.
Soldato
Why would I listen to an interview by an incompetent BBC journalist? I want to see a proper hardball journalist interview him, what is the betting that never happens?
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