Elon Musk | Full interview | Code Conference 2016
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mostly cited as a dated source for Musk's past claims, such as autonomous driving being essentially solved, and his rocket reuse analogies.
What it is
Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg interview Elon Musk at Code Conference 2016 about one-way Mars missions, electric vehicles, autonomous cars, SpaceX booster reuse and AI.
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What Hacker News said
Cites josephg · 2016-06 · on “Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla cited as leading”
Apple could easily make a laptop with better battery - it would just be bigger, heavier and more expensive. Elon Musk claims the same thing about Tesla - that he could easily increase the range on Tesla's cars if they wanted to: [this video] . But with a range of ~300 miles he thinks they're fine.
Cites firasd · 2016-09 · on “Elon Musk on How to Build the Future”
I think he says something about spending time with his kids, etc in this Recode interview (don't remember clearly though) [this video]
Cites Lanzaa · 2018-12 · on “SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record”
Musk has used the pallet of cash analogy several times. Here is Musk using it in regards to saving the fairing @ ISS Research and Development Conference 2017: [LINK] In regards to the first stage (booster stage) at Code Conference 2016: [this video]
Cites csydas · 2023-05 · on “People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes. The courts are not amused”
This is already done, at least with many modern courts. Substantiating your evidence has to happen via a pretty specific process, and there is an entire process for entering stuff into evidence with rules regarding chain of custody, validation, etc. When it comes to evidence, it's not a specific claim against anyone, it's an item that is being introduced to support a claim. That should be validated and checked before it even gets to the court room. If either counsel believes it to be fraudulent, they need to review it and make the claim. From the article, this was not really the case; instead, a video of a conference with many attendees and participants showed Musk making the claim in questi
Critical theCricketer · 2018-05 · on “Tesla in autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach police cruiser”
Elon Musk has constantly underestimated the difficulty of autonomous driving. This video ( [this video] ) shows Elon Musk, two years ago, saying the following: "I basically consider autonomous driving to be a solved problem". "A Model S and Model X can drive with greater safety than a person, already. Right now." "We are less than two years away from complete autonomy".
Critical sabertoothed · 2018-11 · on “Elon Musk: The Recode interview”
Kara Swisher is a terrible interviewer. She was terrible here [1], and she was terrible in this interview. You have an hour with Elon Musk and you ask what BFR means again (knowing the answer) and don't know that they attempt to catch fairings? Why does she always look like she did not do her research? Why do I never learn anything new if she interviews? [1] [this video]
Critical rohit2412 · 2019-05 · on “Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system”
Citation needed? Coast to coast autonomous drive, cross country summon mode, full self driving on highways from entry to exit, the fsd fake demo video with "driver is there only for legal reasons", million robotaxis that earn you 30k$ a year from 2020, lidar is a fools errand etc etc. You need more? Here's Elon musk in 2016 proclaiming self driving to be easy and solved. Showing entire lack of understanding what driving is like and why computers fail at it. [this video]