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Elon Musk's Broken Promises

Elon Musk's Broken Promises

Dan O'Dowd Media
0 HN recommenders · discussed 2023–2025
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About this video

A one-minute montage of Elon Musk promising Tesla robotaxis would arrive "next year" over eight years. It was published by Dan O'Dowd's media channel, which campaigns against Tesla's self-driving software.

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Used as a compact exhibit of Musk's repeatedly missed self-driving timelines, not as a recommendation.

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From the Hacker News discussion

belter · 2023-10 · critical

Maybe the CEO of Tesla would feel less empowered to make those claims, if many of the darlings of AI, would not be silent, while sharing the stage with him during those wild statements. [VIDEO]

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Terr_ · 2024-01 · critical

8 years of Elon promising things within a year: [VIDEO] The original Youtube link is dead (I wonder why) but as far as I can tell that one's a faithful copy.

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Qwertious · 2025-07 · critical

[VIDEO] (1min video, 'Elon Musk's broken promises') Musk's 2014/2015 promises are arguably delivered, here in 2025 (took a little more than '1 month' tho), but the promises starting in 2016 are somewhere between 'undelivered' and 'blatant bullshit'.

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