Tesla is reportedly planning a reveal of its self-driving robotaxi on the Warner Bros. lot amid widespread anger in the industry over the brand’s controversial CEO, Elon Musk, resulting in a rejection of its cars.
Honest question. At what point will Tesla execs look at Musk and decide that keeping him at the helm is not in the company’s best interests?
They just decided he should be paid $56 billion dollars for his contribution… So, not anytime soon
I mean, he’s been doing stupid shit the past decade and REALLY stupid shit the last few years… and yet the shareholders STILL voted to approve his 50 billion dollar bonus from the execs.
This suggests that many stockholders are fanboys.
The board recommended that shareholders vote to give him his 50 something billion compensation package and move the incorporation to Texas. Shareholders seemed divided on the package award due to his erratic behavior, that there isn’t a dedicated captain of the Tesla ship (among other things such as shareholder governance) - but he got the package.
Hopefully they’re taking a harder look after sales took a massive hit, the Cyberturd launch was a flop and vehicles are filling lots unsold. I’m not holding my breath though.
I’m not Hollywood, but I was saving for a Tesla. Then Elon turned into a giant douche. Now that money will eventually be spent on a different EV brand.
Turned into? 10 years ago it was obvious if you had open ears.
Believe it or not some people may not have been investing significant amounts of time into learning about Elon Musk’s personality in 2014
It took me longer to realize sadly. Was really into the nerdy side of him until he landed the first few falcons. Then I couldn’t ignore the bullshit anymore. Sad to say.
The “pedo guy” was the mask off moment. Unless you were in the industry and dealt with him first hand, it was hearsay and rumor and at the time, many of us wanted to see a revitalized space program and electric cars. We kinda just went along with his Hank Scorpio impression, thinking it was an act.
Really all you had to do was ever hear anything from him. He was clear about who he was.
I don’t track down and listen to CEOs. I don’t know most of them. The pedo sub thing was generally the first negative I heard about him also, just from general impressions that came off if you didn’t search for him specifically. I also heard about the Type E and Type 3 thing, and how he wanted to have the cars spell out SEX. I thought it was a bit immature, but didn’t read much further into it back then how much of a manchild he was.
If you’re not dialed into specific types of content, you just didn’t hear it. It’s not simply opening your ears as you said. It would involve having enough interest in looking up a CEO of a company, and many of us don’t do that. I don’t know who runs Kroger, though I have some negative opinions due to the price fixing. I don’t know who is the CEO of Aldi, of Nissan, of AMD, of cuisine Art, etc. I use products from or purchase from the previous companies either daily or weekly, but knowing the CEO generally doesn’t affect me.
What he’s done since then does now affect much more, but back then it wasn’t that important for most to know.
This touches on something I’ve been considering for a while. Any time I spend money on a large company’s product, it’s practically inevitable that I’m putting money into the hands of shitty people, whether they be the CEO, other executives, shareholders, etc. And if I want to have a vaguely normal life, and have some time to enjoy it rather than researching corporate drones all day, that’s something I have to accept and live with.
But sometimes a person or situation is so ridiculous that it just becomes unavoidable. In years past I may have been able to overlook the obnoxious musk connection if I liked a certain Tesla and wanted to buy one. I’d tell myself it’s some cool engineering from a young American auto maker or whatever. But in recent years when the brand is synonymous with one person, and that one person isn’t just your run of the mill rich conservative but is actively and publicly using their position to do or promote evil shit, I’m not sure I would wear a t-shirt with that brand much less drive a car with it.
Fortunately I’m not an early adopter of a lot of tech (EVs included) even though I follow the news on it. So now I have lots of options, and I’ll have even more in a few years when I want to actually buy something!
Human beings are strange animals. Tesla build quality has been suspect from the beginning. Why was that not the priority before now?
I’d assume it’s because Tesla were one of the first to mass market EVs, and Musk’s pandering made them seem like a good, progressive bet. Once people were locked into their purchase they don’t like to admit that they might have made a poor choice. Or they were aware of the build quality, but figured that the brand was a safe bet, that they’d improve over time.
It’s amazing what humans will get tribal over.
They can’t get their cars to self-drive on their own closed-loop tunnel in Vegas, but they’re revealing a car with no steering wheel…
I’m in the market for an electric car. I won’t even consider a Tesla. Mostly because of Musk, and partly because of the shit build quality.
Shouldn’t that be the other way around? “Mostly because of the shitty build quality and partly because of Musk”?
People are allowed their own perspectives.
I was asking because I had assumed that people would put their safety before identity politics. I haven’t liked Teslas since I came to notice how bad their build quality was. You’d think that would come first and not the insane ramblings of a mad man but what do I know…
