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Damn. It's the end then. That can only mean the robots are ready for the streets. Literally, THE STREETS.
Think about it. He's in the government (non-elected) and they are deploying ICE agents everywhere.
The robots will 100% be seen standing at street corners "keeping the peace" within a year.
Omfg am I crazy, or is this realistic? Please just tell me I'm wrong and there's no chance.
With all due respect, you're crazy. They can't even scoop popcorn.
https://electrek.co/2025/07/23/tesla-teleoperated-robot-fail-serving-popcorn-first-day-new-diner/
I would worry but this is muskrat the ketamine king. He's gonna fuck it up.
Drop your weapons!
Family looks confused holding ice cream cones
You have 20 seconds to comply!
You're not crazy, just slightly panicked. They won't be in the streets within a year. It will certainly take at least TWO years to get there ! Please, lets all remain reasonable.
Also, I think Hyundai/Boston Dynamics will get there first :
BD is bullshit. Cute videos of programmed dancing is not a labor force to reliably do work.
These videos are all the same -never actually working, and why the fuck would you make a robot a biped with only two arms? Is the point to increase productivity or look like cheap humans?
They literally don't even work.
This will be a glorious failure.
Even if his robots were ready for primetime (they're not), I don't see how he's going to be able to price them affordably, given the RAM shortages.
Nazis deserve a punch in the face, not money.
Boycott Tesla and Nazi led companies. Do not buy their products, do not buy their stock. Ensure any investment funds you have are free of Nazis.
So basically the cars are not selling, but he doesn't want to be seen to be closing the factories.
The S and X haven't really sold well since the model 3/y were ramped up. Those ate most of their sales. Even before the nazi shit they were low, and he's hinted a couple times before that as well that their days were numbered.
They did want a car to put fancy tech in like the plaid version, but that'll just be the roadster now instead.
They are leaving a big gap in the lineup though without a bigger SUV, so it'll be interesting to see if they bring the extended Y from China to other markets now.
Edit: actually it was just after the salute before it's impact would have been apparent in Feb. They mentioned there was some nostalgia around them even though they weren't selling a lot, but at the same time said they weren't going to cancel them... so that didn't age well.
I don't think them discontinuing old models is a problem. The problem is that they were supposed to announce new models years ago. No they are closing factories and not only still didn't announce anything, they are switching to robots. So no new models are coming. It's a disaster. Looks like Musk took charge at the company, forced everyone to work on Cybertruck, this failed and now they don't know what to do.
They've clearly stated they canceled the newer model in place for the cybercab so ya. Unless that fails and they have to pivot back to cars with steering wheels I think the roadster / semi will be the last new human drivable ones?
It's not the same company it used to be anymore that's for sure.
Edit: Maybe the 3/y will get 1 last human refresh too?
This. They'll shut down for retooling, open up to churn out a small number of robots that do nothing, and claim success while firing most of the staff.
Well the contract he signed for ~$1 trillion by 2035 specifies he has to deploy 1 million robots and 1 million robo-taxis. Which I can see happening.
The issue I see with it is he has to get Tesla car deliveries up to 20 million a year. To put that into perspective, new car sales in the U.S. has never hit 20 million vehicles that I know of. Globally I just saw their sales were at less than 2 million.
So chopping the $80,000+ models and keeping the ~$40,000 models that make up 97% of their sales makes sense. He needs something that will gather a lot of new sales, and there aren't mass amounts of people with $100k to buy a new car.
My bet is on him selling cars to himself somehow
Nah, he'll have the government buy them as fleet cars.
SpaceX are 'buying' all the Cyber Trucks no-one wants.
Weren't local police departments looking at the cyber truck, ran trials, and said lol, no thanks
At least they ran trials. I feel the federal gov't would just buy the shit with our taxes.
The federal government is essentially buying them up when space x does it. Since that’s where space x gets most of its money.
It's total bullshit. They don't need to do anything to the factory. They haven't made X and Y in Fremont for 2 years. There isn't anything to retool or any space to reuse.
The factory already frequently takes manufacturing breaks for days at a time. If he had a robot to build, they have capacity, but let's not fool ourselves. There is nothing to manufacture or deliver.
You're dead on, this is just him hoping he can fool people into thinking they still even need his factories at full capacity. Pretty sure they don't.
... Not using the existing machines doesn't mean they aren't still there, and not the right configuration for building robots...
Or I'm a fucking Nazi and no one will by my shit anymore.
Sadly, lots of fucking morons are still buying their shit.
Fewer, but lots.
lol this is hilarious. kick the bucket+++++++. this may be fun to watch.
Ain't nobody gonna buy your stupid Nazibots either, di ckhead. You are universally despised.
