Elon: “we expect the first operational robotaxis next year - with no one in them”.
Brandon: "that could mean he thought they would be testing a small number of robotaxis without passengers, or it could mean actual robotaxis with passengers but no driver. Parsing these kinds of Musk statements is its own art form"
There is no art form needed because the statement is crystal clear unless you're a mental contortionist trying to bend the statement into something that wasn't said. "No one in them" means no-one. Nobody. No driver. No Passengers. No cops. No sentient robots. Aka empty. Aka devoid of humans. Aka if you looked through the windows the seats would be empty. If you were to fill the car with poisonous gas, nobody would die. This is like an unintentional recreation of the famous Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch: "is no more", "has ceased to be", "bereft of life, it rests in peace".
I understand you want to be perceived as an impartial, unbiased observer who isn't a fanboy or a hater in order to more credibly criticize FSD as likely never beling delivered later. But when you hedge and hem and haw over crystal clear, unambiguous language in order to create a false controversy of "Well both sides have valid interpretations" then your impartiality looks silly.
Just state the obvious: Elon Musk was wrong. You can debate whether he's lying or just woefully ignorant but there is no debate that he has been nothing but consistently, spectacularly unreliable in his predictions.
Elon: “we expect the first operational robotaxis next year - with no one in them”.
Brandon: "that could mean he thought they would be testing a small number of robotaxis without passengers, or it could mean actual robotaxis with passengers but no driver. Parsing these kinds of Musk statements is its own art form"
There is no art form needed because the statement is crystal clear unless you're a mental contortionist trying to bend the statement into something that wasn't said. "No one in them" means no-one. Nobody. No driver. No Passengers. No cops. No sentient robots. Aka empty. Aka devoid of humans. Aka if you looked through the windows the seats would be empty. If you were to fill the car with poisonous gas, nobody would die. This is like an unintentional recreation of the famous Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch: "is no more", "has ceased to be", "bereft of life, it rests in peace".
I understand you want to be perceived as an impartial, unbiased observer who isn't a fanboy or a hater in order to more credibly criticize FSD as likely never beling delivered later. But when you hedge and hem and haw over crystal clear, unambiguous language in order to create a false controversy of "Well both sides have valid interpretations" then your impartiality looks silly.
Just state the obvious: Elon Musk was wrong. You can debate whether he's lying or just woefully ignorant but there is no debate that he has been nothing but consistently, spectacularly unreliable in his predictions.