re: Elon Musk has changed his Twitter handle.

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he certainly seems to be getting to some of you.

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Like I said, it’s the poor decision making coupled with the silly trolling. If he were still knocking it out of the park, no one would care, but he’s not.

One recent example was “Tesla Vision”, where he wanted autopilot/FSD to rely solely on cameras (instead of radar + cameras). All of his engineers said it was a terrible idea. Hell, all you have to do is drive a Tesla to see it wouldn’t work. The cameras are frequently rendered inoperable by direct sunlight and they’re terrible at judging distances within a few feet which is pretty important for, you know, braking.

He did it anyway. Most teslas made last year don’t have a radar and, to the surprise of no one but Elon, they perform worse in autopilot/FSD than older cars with radars. He has now reversed that decision.

With respect to Twitter, it’s his money obviously but there’s no way in hell a platform that is 90% bots and trolls is ever going to be worth $44 billion to anyone else. Where is the cash flow going to come from? $10/month blue check marks?

I appreciate what the dude has done, but if he wants to focus on his overpriced social media playground I wish he would hire his replacement at Tesla first.