This sir, is why you do not run Tesla. What a plan - run your vision by a committee and ask THEM what is feasible. Let a bunch of humans who depend on you for their paycheck tell you what they think they may be able to accomplish with the limited knowledge they have available before they begin a project and encounter unknowns. Then feed the message through a professional corporate mouthpiece trained in the art of using as many words as possible to say almost nothing and hedge your bets. All so you don't tick off a few irrelevant nerds on a message board in an obscure corner of the internet.
Yeahhhh baby. That's the ticket.
Uh....No thanks. I'll take Musk's approach any day of the week: "We are now going to the stars." So they miss, and land on the moon. Vs "Where can we go, committee?" "Uh sir we will schedule a working group with a feedback round and get back to you in six weeks. The moon may be possible on this graduated multipart plan that Ed from engineering will share with you in a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation Wednesday morning."
Sheesh
You misunderstand, and put a whole bunch of words into my mouth that I never said.
I never said Musk needed to ask permission to run decision
making by anybody.
I never said he couldn't promise the stars to us.
I said only that he needs to control his haphazard tweets, and set up a more effective communication system to his customers and shareholders.
He can push his employees to Andromeda and beyond. He can do this on an
internal timeline of 1 hour. He can awe us with his vision. He can do everything he's already doing.
While he continues to do all of that, I would have him run his ideas and timeline by the group I listed earlier with the
sole purpose of giving an
external time line to customers and shareholders
Using your exact example:
He can tell his employees "We are going to the stars. You have 1 year "
he can do whatever he does today to make that happen
He can tweet "We are going to the Stars "
(just omit the 1 year in the tweet)
Tesla can then put out an official statement as I elucidated in my previous post
And then if Tesla hits the Stars in 1 year they have under promised and over delivered. If they don't, they tried hard and had honest external communication and nobody is the wiser that they missed their time line
Musk is still Musk.
Tesla is still Tesla.
But we aren't in the complete dark about when our windshield wipers will work automatically
And we would have a tiny clue if FSD is even possible on HW2 and when the 3 is coming out.
Over promising, being years late, and under delivering gets old, even for a visionary
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I did run the company.
