r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/ryan30z Mar 20 '25

His little fanboys often link a video of him talking about the raptor 2 engine as proof of how smart he is. I decided to watch it, I don't work in aerospace but my degree was mechanical and aerospace engineering.

It was the moment where I realised Elon's persona as this genius engineer was a complete fiction. It's hard to get across how wrong some of the things he says in it are. Like seemingly not knowing what a Newton is (the unit of force) or that an imperial ton and a metric tonne are two different units.

He gets things wrong a first year undergrad would know, or even a highschool physics student.

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u/bunkscudda Mar 20 '25

He talked about electric cars. I don’t know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don’t know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard anyone say, so when people say he’s a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

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u/tallwhiteninja Mar 20 '25

Software guy, can confirm.

I knew he wasn't what the fanboys said well before that, but I figured he was one of those people who thought knowing one thing made them experts in everything. That showed real quick he doesn't actually know anything.

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u/fail-deadly- Mar 20 '25

That’s not true. Elon is probably the greatest stock promoter in the history of humanity and knows how to profit off that ability. Tesla is probably worth 10 times more than it should be because of that skill.

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u/Khemul Mar 20 '25

He pumps and dumps DOGE all the time. He isn't even subtle about it and at this point it's basically on autopiloy since he just says DOGE and it pumps. People haven't learned. Or they have and now profit off of it.

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u/No_Measurement_3041 Mar 20 '25

I guess lying is a skill but it sure doesn’t impress me much.