Assume you don't want to include all the false promises to investors? ie "If you buy our stock we with deliver x"? T
But hey let's go big picture - what promises did he make as to when and how many Model 3 would delivered? Tesla failed to meet those numbers in a big way. How many people paid upfront based on those numbers?
Anyway, back in reality, Teslas
original promise for S/X/3 production was 500,000 cars, total, by 2020.
They're going to
surpass that goal in 2019.
They did later move the 2020 date up as they got more optimistic, and ran into some issues with hitting that..... but even then got most of the way to the updated goal anyway, and will beat the original one.
But I can't think of anybody who bought a physical product from Tesla based on their years-in-advance hoped production figures...nor does the promise cover a specific thing he promised that they're just NOT delivering at all.... so your example kinda sucks.
I get you are a fan of Elon
I'm really not, actually.
I think he's a great vision guy, but totally sucks at day to day operational things and that his ego causes huge problems in this regard.
That said- again- I've yet to see him outright lie about planning to deliver a physical product he's taking someones money for.
And you seem pretty short on any examples of that actual thing too.
, but the evidence of him overpromising and under delivering is pretty huge. I don't think Elon is a man of his word at least not in a responsible way. I think he says things he hopes to be true, but not things he knows are true.
Do you seriously not see the difference between "We hope to make X number of cars by Y date" and "If you buy X, you will receive this physical good when it's ready"?
Because clearly, factually, and even legally, those are
miles apart.
His latest promise that full self driving will be ready by year end I think is complete and utter garbage though.
Good thing he didn't actually say that, huh?
He said it'll be "feature complete" end of year... and then require human oversight. That is- a level 2 system that works outside of divided highways. That's not entirely unreasonable. And says nothing about it working perfectly by any means.
And that it'd be another year to gather data/fine tune on how safe/effective it is. Also reasonable given the # of miles the fleet will drive in a year by then. That said I'm vastly less optimistic it'll be safe-in-all-situations after that testing/refinement time. I mean vastly by a lot.
And then it'll be up to regulators to judge if it's safe enough to go hands-off. Also reasonable with the same caveat as the 2nd thing.
Don't get me wrong, he's made a lot of
wildly optimistic predictions about targets for various driver automation tasks... but let's not jump ahead of his actual claim this time eh?