The Modern Snake Oil Salesman - Elon Musk
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- How did Elon Musk build Tesla? Did Elon build Tesla?
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Start 00:00
Intro 00:07
Musk The Early Years 05:32
Why Making Cars is Hard 12:07
Tesla 14:25
What Character? 22:17
Micromanaging 27:40
A Brief Explanation of Funding 34:32
2008 37:24
Rescued by Eberhard 41:28
DOE Loan 2 44:47
Funding Secured (again) 48:01
What is a ZEV Credit? 49:09
Model S Copperfield Edition 50:53
Miracle or Misdirection 53:44
Toyota 56:29
Model S 01:04:17
A Wild Ride 01:07:54
Musk Rats 01:12:23
The Solar City Illusion 01:18:16
Battery Bait'n Switch 01:28:24
Google Jealousy 01:33:16
Joshua Brown 01:43:20
The Falconeer 01:51:59
3 is the Magic Model 01:59:16
Manufacturing 02:05:56
Batteries Not Included 02:09:58
New Car, Same Problems 02:12:18
Crazy Compensation 02:13:35
Musk Gets His Semi Out 02:16:10
Become the Little Guy 02:20:50
False Dawn 02:20:50
Unions 02:30:07
Engineered Failures 02:35:17
Recovery 02:38:38
2020 02:41:33
The Real Elon Musk 02:41:33
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These are some of the questions I'm gonna answer in this stupidly long pseudo documentary about Elon Musk and how he built the Tesla empire and raised it up into the stock market giant it is today.
The Tesla story is a long one and has some twists turns and secrets which you may not have ever heard before. It has a lot of Musk misdirection and lies and even results in the death of some Tesla customers.
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Unfortunately, the people that need to see this video will never have the stomach to do so.
Yeah it's not all good, but the results speaks. The companies are successful, the cars sell, the semi shows great potential, starlink has million of users, spaceX numbers are never before seen.
Snake oil is something useless, selling garbage as gold. He boasts a lot, True, but he also has some incredible numbers.
@@FreshMedlarI don't think you watched the video paying enough attention to what actually happened...
Starlink is a second worst rated provider in a fully saturated market.
Cars had to have their prices slashed to near-unprofitable in order to up the interest, and still demand is dropping (ex: Hertz has backpedaled on the deal it struck with Tesla).
Spacex is years behind on projects it already accepted subsidy money for.
Numbers for how much semis can haul and how much they weigh are still unreleased, but comments by chips companies suggest they're good only for regional trips with light cargo.
Cybertrucks already started rusting.
Where exactly are the results you speak of?
@@FreshMedlaroh dear.
You have been brainwashed by the snake oil vaporware salesman.
I know of a bridge you can buy.
Lmao@u
@@fortissears5388then look at Tesla.
Expensive and poorly thrown together, disposable automobiles.
@@FreshMedlarelonTard spotted in the wild.
"It created a perception that it did something and that was equally as valuable as actually doing something" Describes the stock market perfectly well too
Indeed it does
Stock market.... entire financial system has become once again a way to harvest work from others into the pockets of the oligarchs... and the kicker, they don't just take the profits, don't even need profits from these companies, but debasing currency via QE of various countries, and subsidies, and the kicker of all, the 401K and getting people to gamble (retail aka the dumb money) to provide liquidity to sell into when they've got a nice stampede of morons jumping in.
All and all, it doesn't do as advertised... but then again advertisements are rather childish, as sales gimmick, at what point other than appointed by law does a company describe how horrible their stuff is and all the bad consequences that can come from their stuff or service? None. They're only going to talk their book. So it's childish to even believe one ounce of an advertisement.
So the PR advertisement about stock markets and other financial chicanery to junk bonds to muni bonds... it doesn't do as advertised: it doesn't really gather affordable financing to any private or public entities, keeping taxes low, or providing many and great paying jobs, not at all. It just creates a way for the initial owners to sell all over the heads of morons buying their little stock tokens. And if the company does screw up, another way to do the same again and again. Either via junk bonds or diluting outstanding stock: stock issuances. Oh, it's democratic... not even close, as it's not based on the the voices of all the shareholders, but those with the most shares.
So yes, does describe the stock market.
Capitalism depends entirely on the mechanism you described. The stock market is just a very easily observable example of that.
Allocating capital is a key thing for successful democracies. Just because something is imperfect does NOT mean it has no value (like the stock market, for example).
You're ON the internet. Educate yourself for crissakes.
In a truly capitalist system, misallocating capital is punished by failure. Instead we get bailouts, infinite debt, and leveraged risk that goes so far downstream the original perpetrators are always long gone.
A MuskRat a few years ago told me that BMW shouldn't be allowed to make elctric cars because Tesla invented them. It didn't matter how much I pointed out that BMW had made it's first electeic car decades before tesla was even founded and that the fiest electric car ever is over 100 years old they wouldn't listen.
They are members of a cult disconnected from both reality and outside information/facts.
Musk fan bois are members of a cult . The typical member knows little about technology and enginnering, is of modest means but dreams about being rich ...to such people Musk is a god.
Waste of time trying to speak with those clowns. Definition of denial.
Not surprising, he has bots running around youtube just saying "he doesn't even know who you're", or an old time favorite "He is richer than you so he must be a genius"... Snake is right, but tell that to modern day China with all their snake oil medicine and it's clear we are doomed as a species.
Are you still married to that person?
The tesla story is literally 'overpromise and underdeliver'
It isn’t exactly their fault, it is the fault of their moronic CEO.
@@onyxd4450 of course, this is why i said "tesla story" and not tesla itself. It's the decisions which were made ended up resulting in what we saw happen with tesla and major part of it was done by musk, not even doubting that. You can't do a quality work if it's not what is required by CEO, and that is the saddest part.
The market doesn't punish lying. It punishes failure. If you can lie and not be caught, you will soon be rich.
@nicholasgutierrez9940 you can fail and not get punished, just ask the Enron execs...
Do you even own a tesla, or a powerwall, or a solar roof, or a starlink? Everyone one who has these products LOVES them. Try a few, I highly recommend it!
To be fair - the Russians did end up switching to the Space Pen, themselves. The same Space Pen from the same manufacturer. Pencil lead leaves small debris floating around in zero gravity.
It was an obvious oversight.
highly conductive debris around sensitive electronic equipment no less
shame the americans have basically killed the iss with their need to do stupid videos. their use of liquids in zero g has literally killed the iss.
we all watched "3 idiots" thay say that at the end of the movie lol
@@LoudMouth_ less bad, but you don't want to get them in your eyes either
Yes, this will fill that "Folding Ideas regular upload schedule" shaped hole in my heart.
So many banger essays lately
find a better youtuber
@NoahWolfWiseKingWolf better than peaked or folding ideas?
Very nicely written: my compliments! Just one thing about the Space Pen myth: the reason everyone, including the Russians stopped using pencils is that the grafite shavings were causing electrical disturbance and were a fire hazard, making the project fully justified.
The Space Pen product is entirely separate from NASA. Aside from $1200 on an order of 400 pens, no NASA funding went into it. The prior NASA space pen was an order of 34 pens at a cost of $130 per unit. It probably doesn't need to be explained why a mechanical pencil does not solve the graphite issue, so I'll just say that the reason to use them over wooden pencils is, in fact, to have as little flammable equipment on board as possible. There was absolutely nothing special about the $130 pens as far as decent mechanical pencils go and its just the result of a fixed price contract, not any kind of specialization or development. (though I'd wager they didn't use cheap scripto pens for durability reasons, so there's that)
I can't share links in youtube comments, but the NASA history page has a short article that explains the whole situation.
TL;DR The project wasn't fully justified because there never was any project.
@@cockatoofan The project was justified for the private company: it made a profit out of it. For me the emphasis was more on the bullshit idea that using graphite pencils would have been a good idea on pure oxygen atmosphere spacecraft.
I went into the comments specifically to see if someone had corrected this. Thanks!
It's important to note the full version of the anecdote that the "Russians just used pencils instead of fancy pens" is that they didn't use graphite pencils, but wax pencils, which naturally don't have the graphite filament problem.
citation: my arse
This video essay is criminally under rated, it deserves much more views and a follow up on the similarly shady things going on in other of his ventures like Boring, Starlink, Hyperloop,...
last week i got an email saying the cybertruck i pre-ordered was ready for me to customize so they could build it for me. I looked at the forms and there was a "foundation series" addon that added $20,000 to the price. It was stupid stuff like badges, different wheels, white interior. The $20,000 package was not removable. I emailed them and asked if I could remove the extra unexpected unwanted $20,000 package. They sent me a copy paste response saying I need to contact some sales reps or some other random people. I canceled my cybertruck order. Guess i'm sticking with my gas powered cars.
That sounds super shady. It's a shame USA is a little behind on EVs we have such a wide range of EVs to choose from here.
The rivian truck is a great EV truck if that's what you're after
No reason to stick with gas, as there are many other very capable EVs available, including pickup trucks. The fewer tailpipes in the world, the better.
@Yanquetino totally agree
Rivian is a repairability nightmare arguably worse than Tesla, a dent in the truck bed totals it because they won't sell you just the panel to replace, they sell you the whole bed. And it's unibody. Oh and body shops know this so they're gonna charge a premium in labor when they know insurance is paying. It's a monetary land mine for anyone willing to shell out to buy one. Same anti repair design philosophy stolen from Apple just like Tesla is trying to do, leading to more waste as they age cause of the salvage value. Every EV company is following Tesla's lead in their designs. Little modularity or consumer agency, justified as offsetting production costs while still charging obscene prices as luxury products. I foresee lots of paper weights in the long run. I've talked to too many people that've lost thousands on these things when they get totaled. Source: I work in auto salvage
@@syloui Have you ever seen that RUclips channel "Wham Bam Tesla Cam"? They show Tesla video of accidents involving Tesla's. Also everytime the Tesla is totaled BUT the people seem to walk away with just minor injuries more; no wonder the insurance is so high.
2:36:14
The story about space pens and pencils is apocryphal. The Russian space program also bought the pen and used it. Pencils produce graphite dust when used. Graphite dust is conductive and will get everywhere in space.
Indeed. Prior to the pen's availability, both nations used grease pencils. Neither used normal pencils, for exactly the reason you stated. Graphite is an excellent electrical conductor, so they would inevitably cause short circuits..
@@pseudotasuki I believe the point in the video still stands though. It is stupid to create an over-engineered solution that is more prone to failure when there is a low tech solution that will probably never fail on you.
A grease pencil is not going to have an unexpected mechanical failure. A control knob in your car will basically never fail. A door handle in your car will basically never fail.
The dumb as shit Tesla replacements for those really simple devices will always fail when your life depends on it. At least one person that we know of nearly died because Tesla thinks door handles look ugly.
@@xe-wf5iv They're not contesting the point against overengineering, just that this specific story about supposedly using pencils in space is a myth. And people using it as an example of overengineering is themselves an example of repeating "facts" that turn out to be factually incorrect.
this whole video is apocryphal
@@xe-wf5iv Space pens aren't prone to failure. They are more reliable than normal ballpoint pens.
Oh, I do hate touch screens. Give me a physical button to press! It is more reliable! It *feels* good!"
Yes!
here here!
Plus you can do it by touch without taking your eyes off the road once you know your vehicle.
@@andrewphilips2457 Now that's a much better argument than mine! Gonna start using it.
I hate touch screens but in some cases it's more convenient. A button can only do one thing, after all - contextually, at least. Still, nothing beats a good ol' mouse and keyboard for me, but of course you can't bring one everywhere.
The only miracle Elon Musk achieved was fixing his hairline.
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Diesel engines are far more complex than gas engines, not the other way around. The fuel system alone on a diesel is many times more complicated.
Diesel is used in trucking for a few reasons.
1) Diesels are more thermally efficient. A lot more. Diesels can have a 15 to 1 compression ratio. Thermal efficiency is directly tied to compression.
2) Diesels create incredible torque at low RPM. Extremely helpful for hauling huge loads.
3) Diesel engines last a lot longer because diesel fuel has lubricating properties while gasoline is a solvent.
I stand corrected. I genuinely didn't know that so I appreciate the correction.
You missed a few points:
1. Diesels are more fuel efficient also because diesel fuel produces more energy then burning than petrol.
2. Diesel engines last longer because they are built sturdier, because they have to withstand greater loads, because of higher compression ratio and more explosive ignition. Also engineers understand that those who buy diesels are going to use them for greater distances so they count it in at engineering process.
Agreed. Both gasoline and diesel engines have been subject to near continuous improvement for a century.
They’re remarkable artefacts. Imo we’d be mad to set them aside.
@@sabakag so, your first point is actually the same as their first point. Thermal efficiency means the same thing as "how much energy can something produce when burned". Otherwise that is an interesting added point.
@@sabakag Point 1 is not efficiency. Having more energy in the fuel doesn't make the engine more thermally efficient. Thermal efficiency is what percentage of the energy in the fuel is put to work vs the amount of energy being lost to things like heat. Diesels can reach 50% thermal efficiency.
But point 2 is true. They are generally built to a higher standard both to deal with the higher compression and torque and to make them last longer. They are generally in equipment not aimed at consumers who are far more price sensitive.
Snake oil merchant is apt, we also would’ve accepted ‘The Emperors new clothes’.
I confess, I was a Musk fan ("fervent Muskrat", in the presenter's vernacular). I had no financial stake in any Musk company, nor have I ever owned a Tesla. I simply found him to be an altruistic, visionary genius.
Then, I took a ride in a Tesla, owned by a friend. I was unimpressed. Yes, it was quick. But other than that, it was just a car - and a shoddily assembled one at that. Imagine the worst of 1980s GM production, saddled with technical gizmos which have little or nothing to do with actually operating a car.
Next, I started listening to people who were committed environmentalists, yet had well reasoned, well researched, objective criticisms of EV technology - at least in its present form and given the constraints of battery technology and the electrical grid.
These criticisms didn't square with Musk's claims. He simply couldn't deliver what he claimed was not only inevitable, but simple (given commitment and the right concentration of capital). Why couldn't he? Because the claims were exaggerations at best, and patent nonsense in many cases.
Finally, I started listening to Musk himself... I was no longer impressed. I was a bit fearful, to be honest. Set aside the fact that the guy literally tried to reinvent the wheel (remember that stupid yoke-style steering wheel?), and that we're still waiting for that ridiculous Cybertruck. Musk wants wealth. What's a frightening, is that he doesn't want it in order to accumulate things. He had more than enough to buy whatever he wanted long ago. He doesn't even really want it for bragging rights - although, admittedly, that does enter his thinking a bit. These are just garden variety examples of greed and vanity - 2 of the 7 deadlies. I understand that. The world has seen plenty of those folks.
What Musk wants, is the power the circumvent governments and the will of people. He sees himself as a messiah, and he's selling Mars as his Promised Land.
Elon Musk isn't just greedy, thin-skinned, and vain. He's dangerous.
I feel the same but I hope we're wrong on that.
I hear good things about Starlink but when I read criticisms of All That Space junk, It's just not a sustainable model long-term supposedly.
He just doesn't seem to care about that, And how does he get approval to send so many satellites into the atmosphere. It's mind boggling.
hes the most dangerous type of rich person:
Liar, no lines, and the worst part, an ego matching his wealth.
To put it into context, move him back a couple decades and he would be one of those guys who had kids on steel mills paying them in vodka and literal corpses on his closet.
Amen, brother!
Limiting usage of cars >EVs > combustion engines
American (and many other tbh) cities are designed in such a way people are unable to live without them. It's bad for everyone, car drivers included. Ironicallly creating walkable cities is great for car enthusiasts because they no longer come across the drivers who either don't want to be there or shouldn't be there
As such encouraging public transport, mixed development and cycling would improve not only climate but also daily driver experience
Electric cars won't save the climate. Trams, trains, buses and bicycle will. And it will happen without making lives of car drivers miserable - after all even in Netherlands there's high percentage of car ownership. They just don't use cars for every daily trip. They don't have - they have better choices
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 I'm all for greener in every way, but unfortunately cars are only 7% of total greenhouse gasses.
Industry and agriculture are 60% of problem.
That is where focus should be, if people are serious about lowering greenhouse gasses. That means making grids greener.
Cars are just easier for politicians to placate public concern.
My bro, this is an awe inspiring documentary. I have no idea why you haven’t been picked up by a major organization. If you have, my apologies. Brilliant.
Yes, I thought I knew most of Musk watching thunderfoot, common Sceptic, "Adam Somehing" to name a few. This an in depth easy to understand video
Why would he want to be picked up by dying legacy media? Old man LMAO
@@TheXarus can’t even give a guy a compliment without the trolls trying to feed. 😝
@@Jedi_James Welcome to the Internet. xD
@@yamatoirishima9221 🤣
Man this video is a gift that keeps on giving, holy crap. Musk is definitely not the guy I thought he was.
Yeah, so wait until the next guy tell you who he is. So gullible.
@@joestar719go ahead and disprove anything about Musk said in this video.
@@joestar719 better go believe someone with real evidence vs musk who has absolutely nothing but funds
@@maybelater1464 Talentless losers cannot judge winners.
@@joestar719 I would not necessarily say that, people can judge whoever and however they want, freedom of choice and yada yada but what's even better is that I, to be totally honest, could give two shits about his origin story, I care a little bit about his future development arc will be (lex luthor or some kind techno jesus or some shit) but the fact is that he may have started off wealthy, may have started off poor, but he sure is somewhere now. I'm more than sure that tesla i just a grift for him, sucking up all the juicy liberal ecofreak dipshit money that he can while focusing on the main game -> SPACE! As long as innovation is done towards the goal of mankind's expansion into outer space, it's all I care about. They are all rich billionaires who care only about being more and more powerful, might as well pick the one with some far reaching goals instead of "derp crash stock market in 5 years take pleb money, hue hue hue shekels."
Hey, Musk fanboys? why don't you make a new argument of your own instead of replying with fallacies to the comments of other people under this video?
I can do both. As a non fan boy aswell
let's hear it then
@@jdjdl8660I'd like to hear
Because your comments are bollox!! Tesla is self funding company with interest in cars, energy, autonomy, AI and robotics. It has a formidable development pipeline that is likely to drive continued growth well into the next decade. It enjoys industry leading margins that make it's innovation self funded.
@@markthomas7279 so that's the winning argument? They're self-funded? You know what else is "self-funded"? The mexican cartel.
Friend has a late model S. Under 20K miles... It's on its 3rd set of front drive shafts, and 2nd front motor. He's also had the rear suspension replaced.
He doesn't have Ludicrous mode and generally drives like a grandad.
He worked out that this year it's spent 3 months in the shop being fixed (or waiting for the right parts to arrive (they sent the wrong front motor when it was in for that!).
I joke with him that he goes through drive shafts faster than tyres, which is actually true.
He's out of warranty within the next 6 months, he's *not* keeping it! 🤣
My aunt waited for her car to be serviced and fixed for a minor accident for months on end with a loaner Tesla.
I had a friend who bought a Tesla with FSD. One day it just drove away by itself, never to be seen again. Police are still looking.😮
I feel like a post 1yr update is needed for this vid after all that’s happened with Elon this yr, banger vid
I think the way Elon Musk handled the Twitter rebrand is the perfect case study to how he runs his businesses. He just wants to hit the flashy 20% milestone, and then expect people to get the project to completion on their own. He just wanted to see that garish X lit up on top of the building.
You are not the brightest person but okay 😂 🤣
@@Goodhello369 It doesn't take a genius to see the truth. He's 100% correct.
Twatter lost money because investors intentionally pulled out immediately after Musk bought the company. That really wasn't on Musks' actions within the company. Did you forget that a trillion dollar company like Vanguard was interfering with the company's stock value?
@@johnmadison3472 correct in his own mind. If thats what you mean. That doesnt count.
@@herrschaftg35 What are you talking about? I never spoke to the valuation of Twitter? Im talking about the rebrand. Go look even today the site is chuck full of twitter references. He just wanted to see the X logo on there and that was good enough for him. The consistency of the terminology on the site is all over the place. Post/Repost vs Tweet/Retweet. Twitter Vs X.
I actually do change management in large corporations. If I would handle a rebrand as poorly as it was for X, I would have been fired.
you described Musk briefly as an angel investor, i would say he is a Trojan Investor
Elon musk: i will never sell tesla stock
Elon musk sells billions of dollars worth of tesla stock 😂😂😂
That's not the worst bit. Using it to buy Tw*tter was.
2:51:20 this is incorrect. Hydrogen (most of which is made from natural gas) is about 20% higher carbon footprint than just burning actual methane. Regardless methane has made for a much more practical rocket fuel than hydrogen.
2:51:27 barely made it 5 seconds without running in to another mistake. The Saturn V rocket that sent Neil Armstrong to the moon used a kerosene first stage... second stage was hydrogen but this makes up only about 15% of the fuel weight.
Overall there are a lot of mistakes through out the video and bias that is pushed as fact.
Refreshingly focused video even more so as I've just finished watching an almost 6 hour video that contained 2 hours of info
Appreciate the compliment. I always worry the longer videos will just annoy people and try to include relevant info. I cut a lot out of this that was not relevant to Tesla or musk
When will people understand that no one is above truth and honesty. They will eventually expose lies. Cheers for the amount of energy to bring dark into the light. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shouldn't the government regulate these hands off driven systems? If I made a home brew self driving system and a cop stops me some and he sees my contraption, I garenttee he would say you are not allowed to use that on city roads. So why does the government just look the other way for Tesla?
Government still clueless about AI policy
That would "stifle innovation" according to auto industry lobbyists, and such regulation would be very complicated to draft competently, so almost no politician wants to touch the issue.
@@Alex-0597although I agree with the drafting setting it back I have disliked the stifling of innovation claims as the companies who state that typically are preventing competition which are innovations
@@Myloypip Oh yeah. To be clear, I wasn't endorsing the view that regulation inherently stifles innovation, I was just saying that's what auto industry lobbyists tell politicians as a "principled" reason why they should oppose regulation of automated driving systems. You know, as an alternative when the lobbyists are tired of giving expensive gifts and making implied threats about job losses should any sort of regulation go through the legislature.
A interesting source is a documentary Nova Car of the Future from the mid 2000's, at about the 40 minutes they interview Martin Eberheart the introducing him as the founder of Tesla while he still at Tesla.
A video essay without dumb skits or beginning with a person pouring themselves a treat and sighing? My oh my what a treat
Make a video on spacex. I heard it's even worse but people NEVER talk about it
When RUclips found this for me I gulped at the length of the vid. I did, however, stay with it once I'd started watching. It was very well done. Well researched and presented with nice low key humour and killer facts.
I was reminded a bit of Elvis Presley's manager Col. Parker, who started as a fairground huckster and ended up as a meeter and greeter in a Las Vegas hotel (in exchange for board and lodging), having spent all his money on his gambling habit. Musk is in a different league financially, of course, but I don't see it ending particularly well for him either.
already hooked on this because of your use of whip it... thank you so much for your service, devo was incredible
Jesus! I thought it was going to be a chilled out Sunday, but this was amazing
This was an analysis beyond good and evil.
I had never much interest in Musk but he always felt like a Showman to me. Now I know a lot more and the next time someone calls Musk the inventor of Tesla/electric cars I have some information to spread.
Indeed. I get annoyed at the inventor/engineer tag, he's neither. But he is an excellent PR guy and financier so I don't understand why he takes credit for things he doesn't do and doesn't take credit for the things he does do
@@PeakedInterest basically a Steve Jobs 2.0?
@@PeakedInterest Although I agree and get annoyed by the rewrite of history re Tesla, he happens to have a fairly good grasp of the engineering, or at least a good feel for it. Until he proposed the Hyperloop anyhow... Richard Branson must be a complete moron. I feel sorry for him.
@@martinda7446yeah. He's got a good mind for engineering. Like how he engineered the mass exodus of advertisers from the so called X. Or how he engineered his being ousted as PayPal CEO due to sheer incompetence and so on. His list of engineering feats ongoing so I don't know where all the hate comes from.
@@crypticscrutiny1153 Ha ha yes I agree , I was just giving him a partial operating brain. It takes some doing what he has managed to fiddle..deal, gaslight and on the odd occasion have a decent idea.
GENIUS opening. I was seriously anticipating this documentary, and while I'm still not through it fully, you've really exceeded expectations. Amazing work.
It's funny how things work out, I was reading an article where they mentioned snake oil and I got curious about where the phrase comes from, once I found out it felt like the perfect analogy
About the quality and indication of the creator, I agree. 🐍 beware and pay attention to the obvious misconstrued notions on display in this “snake piece”
Sounds like someone is jelly of Elons big Rockets. Sure Glad your contribution to this life is far less Than what Musk has done.
It's a hack job, dude must have personal issues with Tesla, probably applied for a job and was laughed out of the room. Garbage.
It is totally one-sided. Elon is not a saint, but compared to most humans, he is far more successful based on his own merit, and he is a far better person than most humans. Most people are outright terrible. None are wholly virtuous.
Find someone that has accomplished more in the past century, and I’m talking about good stuff not destructive war and Mayhem.
Thunderf00t been saying this for years now
Maybe I am biased and that‘s the reason, why I like your documentary a lot: Musk is for me since long a sociopath, fully lacking emotional intelligence. But lots of details figured out here, were unknown to me so far.
It just make the picture even more sound - thank you for this!
Agreed...little felon musk is a socially inept self absorbed bullshitter with no moral compass and no conscience.. has billion dollar missile and munitions contracts with governments...the very weapons being used for civilian slaughter, genocide etc....
What a guy...!
I always saw him as an autistic manchild fantasist. Stubborn minded, foolhardy and cringe. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't have as much influence or offspring ... honestly it's baffling to me how anybody takes this buffoon seriously
The main issue I have with Elon Musk is how he constantly promises that he'll do something in the future and people admire him for those future promises. I only admire people for things they have already achieved.
Idk... Like having rocket that land 18 times ? Like reducing cost of kg to Leo TENFOLD?
While all " experts" had conducted "studies" and test before SpaceX and they decided that reusable rocket doesn't have sense?
Or maybe introducing Ev into market, in times where all giants said that Ev is just a pipe dream, as there is no infrastructure for that,
Or creating first NEW company , new brand of car producers for long time.
Elon time is annoying, ngl, there were some failed, or underperformed projects, like rn boring company, Hyperloop is open source and is BUILDED in at least 3 cities, if I recall even Richard Branson (virgin) build one of those hyperloops.
Neuralink is approaching human test phase,
Fsd is maybe still not ready, but it is working. Achievement that was considered almost impossible in late 90 early 2000.
I know how hard is working for him, I know that he is shitty employer, at least for people who like work 9-5 and got life, I know that as it goes for timelines, you can forget about that.
I don't care, as he is basically one person that is MAKE SHIT DONE. He is not perfect, but he is risking lot and he is pathfinder in many cases, there would not be rocket lab, nor relativy space if not SpaceX, why? There wasn't faith in private start ups as for rocketry before spaceX.
There was no faith in market value of BEV before Tesla. There was LOT of startups and projects, but all failed on one critical element: production and marketing. I am into this sh1t from mid 90, I followed space and motor industry from my childhood, I remember great prototypes presented in every expo... That ended only on shelves.
This is I am tired of hitpieces Lika this. It's not a journalism, it's a hit piece with small amount of facts, and lot of opinions. You can lie without lying, just presenting carefully chosen facts, and omitting all others.
@@just_archan He hasn't landed a rocket 18 times. He also didn't launch that EV company. And Tesla cars are bottom of the barrel in terms of build quality and reliability.
But all of what you're writing is exactly what I am talking about! This is in the test phase, such and such will soon launch, etc etc. So many promises, so little results so far. Where's the Cybertruck? Where is my trip to Mars? Where is Neuralink? Where's the rocket that was reused succesfully? Give me a break.
@@McVaio 2 days ago booster 1058 landed for 18 time. As for Tesla quality... I will not argue, while I would argue with phrase bottom of the barrel. I am mechanic irl, I remember Renault, I know how awful in terms of reliability are land Rovers and lot of others. As for cybertruck, is just started production and soon will be starting delivery.
As for funding Tesla company... Sorry, before Elon took over it was going nowhere. It was lotus Ev, basically just handmade prototypes, no production idea, no proper marketing plan, similar to countless other startups at the time... Don't forget that he was later hired by VW.... And dropped. He is pretty good engineer, ngl, but as for logistic and dealing with business/ production was awful.
"Genius" of Musk lies in ability in looking outside of the box and ability to be focused on goal. If something doesn't work as planned, he can change direction on a whim... Issue with materials in early concept of Starship? Let's change it. ITS was initially carbon composit, they even builded machine to create ring out this material... It wasn't as practical, and in the end would be difficult to work with, they changed to stainless steel. Battery swap in Tesla, not practical irl, dropped.
For comparison look at SLS. Goal was to create massive launcher that will be CHEAP. So it had to use as much hardware from STS. But in practice using those old engines become VERY expensive. Just refurbishment of RS 25 cost about 140mln per piece, so just engines for that rocket cost 0.5 bln. And cadence of launch/production will be about one rocket per YEAR. For comparison, spaceX produce rn one raptor 2 per DAY, with cost of engine under 2m. Probably lower. In the end one launch of SLS cost more than 4Bln, while cost of Starship program, as a whole, including creating whole FACTORIES (MULTIPLE) is estimated about 10bln.
I don't admire him for promises, but for what he already achieved. I was in BO camp few years ago, not anymore. I am basically ignoring any timetables that Musk is telling, but I am looking at progress rn. I saw stagnation in both markets, and how spaceX and Tesla just shaken whole market out of it. Musk underdeliver, but still he DELIVERS. Others just promised, and not deliver at all
This is such an astute observation. At the opposite end of the spectrum you have Nikola Tesla who didn't demand praise for anything and preferred to work in a dark corner in silence while creating technology which defined the next couple of centuries and still does
Future faking! Why do the actual work when you can get attention for just saying youll do the work?! Have had a few coworkers like this… its infuriating.
so he tried making a service called X and then made spaceX and then changed twitter to X
i am starting to think the dude has a strange fetish about that letter
Yes.
It's the symbol used to represent 'wrong'.
Tried? I think inventing PayPal, aka x, is doing alright
@@sambrandner musk didn't invent PayPal, he was fired from the company before PayPal but did still have lots of shares so made a killing, but musk wants you to believe he invented PayPal.
@sambrandner He didn't invent paypal, lol. Him and his brother started Zip2, which was then bought by Confinity. Confinity was later bought by eBay and rebranded to PayPal. Stop riding the fraudster so hard.
i bought the model Y last july believing it to be an electric car. But when i opened the chassis, i was shocked to see four tiny peoples sit in the frame and rotating the wheels by hand.
That’s gonna be expensive to replace
thats better than four squirrels
damn the musk bros are in full force in the comments.
If Elon wants my future, and Disney wants my past, who wants my present?
Santa
Tony F
WEF, China, Russia....a race to be world leader. The war is about more than Ukraine! 🏁
Trump 2024
Your present is the gift you get from God.
Lol…. Your car will flash warnings at you if your hands are off the wheel
KIT: “I’m concerned Michael, it seems your hands have left the wheel”
MICHAEL KNIGHT: “SHIT…Thanks Kit!! I got distracted playing my Cello again.” 😅
This just goes to prove that if you've got enough money you can get away with anything: any level of stupidity... I'm reminded of the saying "If he fell in a bucket of 💩 he'd come out smelling like roses"
I think Elon Musk should personally pilot a spacecraft to Mars and start immediately.
Will second that proposal. 👍
We've sent several lander missions to mars now.
The sun, however
@@MaxSafeheaD havent left earth's lower orbit yet , mate...
As for going to the moon..that is just kiddies stuff - utter fantasy
@@bolivianbillionaire1349 But Elon says we can do it "now", so I'm sure he can manage it. Let's just send him on his way. He's a smart guy, I'm sure he can figure something out by the time he gets to Mars.
In his presentations or when he is giving a seminar to thousands of people, I got the impression that he didn't have a thorough knowledge of his own product, which felt weird as he claimed he invented them. He briefly skims how it works but doesn't go into detail and that was the reason I never got the Elon hype. Your video was put together immaculately and answered my curiosity. The research and time to make this video must have been long but it was so worth it, loved watching it from start to end.
Thanks, I try to put maximum effort into every video. They don't always generate views but they do at least contain well researched statements
@@PeakedInterest Your views should definitely increase. It is just that people who care about Musk are either his die hard fans and the rest, well they actually don't care about him. I got curious, as I was really astonished how he was securing all the funding, surely if your product is defective then the funding would slowly trickle down to nothing but it didn't for Elon. And another reason was he asked that the import tax be lowered for Tesla, to sell it in my country and I thought, well, what is this product, that he was so sure that import tax will be lowered for it? Does he know my country, because firstly it was an expensive car so the market for it wasn't big and installation of charging port in a country like India is a tricky thing on it's own. Overall Tesla didn't seem to fit in the current Indian market. Perhaps in future, if car manufacturers who have already established plants in India started bringing EVs slowly into Indian market, I could see why Tesla would be successful
@Naveesha I don't know too much about the Indian market but I do know he's entered many markets by using the promise of bringing jobs to the table to secure lower taxes, extra green funding. He did this in Europe and China so I'd assume it's the same for India too, especially given it has the massive and low cost labour force that Elon loves so much
This video is just a hit piece filled with lies.
@@xploration1437 alright, where are my solar roof tiles then? Can you direct me to where I can get some or should I just join the class action lawsuit to get some?
This intro gave me right vibes man! Been waiting for your video for ages!
If I'm the CEO of a car company I would damn sure make them build a car that I can get into and drive myself. Can you imagine being on TV and being asked why you don't drive a car that your own company makes? That guy and his company would never recover from that.
Splendid work, didn't feel like a 3h video
Thank you, I always felt like some parts could have been paced better
Wow, I actually got new info about Musk and it didn't come from the Common Sense Skeptic. Great video!
This is far too well presented to have only been seen by so few people
And also full of errors. I'm one minute into it and the Chinese were not involuntarily brought here nor were they involuntarily working.
"this fits so well into my personal bias that I needed to badly to continue to believe"
I got recommended it now, and from what I can tell you commented/saw video 19hours ago. Safe to assume the yt algorithm is promoting this video today to many users. It probably is going to cause the video to explode in viewer count in the coming week/2.
It will get recommended to more people now because of how Musk has become the laughing stock of the internet in the last year. Unfortunate that he still has so many simps though.
@@doctorrobert1339 it will stay at the same level of bullshit as long as there are indian people out there spamming those ridiculous elon support memes
people told me I was an idiot for saying this shit 6 years ago.
Things haven't changed much. 😂 You still are one.
@@user-yl9sw4ed2f it's the entire human condition. 😂
Nice story, well put together!
Although, the Russians didn't use pencils in space, as far as I know.
Graphite dust in zero g is a nightmare, it shorts out electronics and is a royal pain.
the sovets used grease pencils
They also eventually used space pens
Obligatory space pen vs pencil debunking: pencils cause graphite dust and also shavings can get out if you sharpen them and they could get into the equipment and cause issues. Even mechanical pencils can have tips break off. Also nasa tries to avoid having flammable objects on their ships.
Great video, just a pet peeve of mine 😂😂😂
Flammable objects? Like rocket fuel?
@@fgoindarkg In the cabin. They’re trying to avoid another Apollo 1 situation.
@@hookedonfandom
A pencil isn't gonna bolt them in and then flood the cabin with oxygen and spark a fire with loose wires.
Consider this: both A1 and A13 were sabotaged by loose wires igniting pure oxygen.
@@fgoindarkg once they are in orbit you don’t want to risk any graphite or shavings getting loose in a zero g environment and causing equipment failure or creating a short in a highly oxygenated environment while in space.
sharpies.. ?
Great video, it seems that "smoke and mirrors" might be the quickest way to describe how he operates. To be fair to one of your later points, on the fuels used by rockets. Not all rockets use H2 and O2 as their fuel and oxidiser on the first stage; many use RP1 as the fuel. This is a highly refined form of kerosene, and is a dirtier fuel than Methane. It wasn't Hydrogen that completely got the US to the moon with Apollo, the first stage used RP1. The second and third stages used Hydrogen. I believe that the Delta 4 Heavy also used Hydrogen.
Yes and the new Vulcan Rocket by ULA uses Methalox as the propellant of the first stage.
Wonderful work on this, thank you.
This channel needs more subscribers! Algorithm, do your thing!
The algorithm needs to be fed
In Elon’s defence, he did build those Hyper-loops in Brockway, Ogdenville AND North Haverbrook. 🙄
No, he built scaled down tunnels that were only straight. They were not the "Hypeloop" that he promised.
@@herrschaftg35 it's a simpsons reference pal
This was a long watch but holy shit was it worth it. I thought I knew most things about how shady this man was already but holy crap...
The depressing thing is you could easily make another few hours of video essay on SpaceX, the boring company, all the lies an shit he pulled in those companies... not to mention twitter.
I'm glad he's had the downfall that he's had. He deserves much worse
Where is the downfall?
@@Mambo9000012coooope
It so nice to drive around in a old car without any bells and whistles, no lane assist, no automatic breaking, not even a cruise control and the ABS doesn't work. Of course I have been in cars that have those systems and it always feel like someone put training wheels on my bike, or that I have got some backseat driver with me... And I can tell that the general attention of drivers have decreased. Some doesn't even seem to know where in their lane the car is, and some when overtaking seem to literary wait for the blindspot indicator to turn off. In other words, they are no longer checking their blindspot before switching lanes.
I can't believe I just watched a feature-length documentary about an Elongated Muskrat.
How was it? Good and bad feedback is always appreciated
@@PeakedInterest Absolutely loved it. Entertaining, informative, and bookending it with the story of the snake oil salesman was a great touch.
Ha! Good one all around.
@@PeakedInterest You should do one on Sam Altman.
Elon’s influence on the Tesla Roadster used up exactly 100% of his car design capabilities.
So from his PoV, he did it all.
Same as for the Tesla Truck, except no one was there to contribute the missing 99% of the design effort 😂
The way you portay Elon and his companies, is the way i view the American economy. 30T in debt, yet still going strong.
To big to fail so we all play along.
This is such a good video, I'm genuinely surprised it doesn't have 10+ million views (yet). Thanks for making this!
Great work! Everyone should share this.
i've only just started this video but that intro was EXCELLENT, my dude; the tone being set up with the snake oil story, the music, the news castors, great stuff all around. I'm greatly looking forward to the rest of the video :D
I hope the rest can match up to the start
It can’t as it’s so heavily negatively biased towards Elon Musk. Perhaps next time be more objective.
@@navg42 Elon has lot of faults and this video is just pointing them out. Negatively biased would mean that, the creator of video was stating his own opinion rather than facts. He just stated facts that were already true. If you look at Elon's wikipedia page, it looks like it is written by a fanboy rather than stating facts about the billionaire. If you are in a public eye and your claim to fame are false, somebody will naturally uncover them and has a right to make video about it. The video for me, didn't have any input from the creator rather it was a series of fact. If you don't like seeing them, you are free to stop the video and go to one, that is praising Musk. He didn't say anything that was false or insert his own opinion. If you feel it was negatively biased maybe you should look at your own thought process and judge whether you think it is negatively biased because you like Musk or if you truly claim to be objective than a bunch of facts shouldn't bother you.
FYI. The rest is shit.
@@navg42oh no a butthurt two faced musk rat🤣🤣🤣
I wish you make such a documentary on musk's twitter acquisation too
I'm so glad you posted this exposé! And also very glad that I got rid of my screwed up Tesla, and replaced it with a much better EV. I can't believe that there are muskrats out there who still haven't caught on to the con.
Thanks. Teslas genuinely aren't that great. I've had an s and y and neither was as good as the ionic 5 or taycan
Q: How do you make a $20b. social media company?
A: find a narcissist billionaire and sell your $25b. company to him and his friends for $44b.
Musk’s hubris is catching up with him. He’s not an idiot (see how little of his own money he put into Hyperloop! He knew it wasn’t practical but it was great for publicity) but he with the purchase of Twitter he shows he has started to believe his own hype.
If he didn't buy Twitter we wouldn't have a clue to the level of media control the government has. The Hunter Biden story suppression alone changed the presidential election.
Look, as someone who's into rocket science to the point I get a degree in a couple of moths, I gotta defend methane. It is actually pretty hype. considering the space launch market is pretty small, the difference between using a liquid hydrogen + liquid oxygen fuel compared to methane + liquid oxygen in terms of greenhouse emissions is pretty small, so the economic factor, which is supposed to be better for methane (it's a fairly new technology), might be a good reason for rockets to use it instead of hydrogen.
BTW, water vapour is a greenhouse gas on the higher altitudes, it's not harmless.
Most car manufacturers outsource smaller parts to other companies, there's hundreds if not thousands of companies involved in manufacturing a car. So while they are involved in the design they don't manufacturer everything themselves. They do however have to deal with the logistics of getting thousands of different parts from around the world to their factory, and that is further complicated by the fact that large car factories don't stockpile parts, they have a buffer but otherwise are using parts as they are delivered.
This video is aging like red Bordeaux wine. Great video, thank you!
Thank you. I think if you stick to what's verifiable (which almost everything in this video is) then it will usually age well
Great Video! I'd like to see more lengthy videos like this.
I thought I remembered the name of this channel when it popped up and half a video in I was like how am I not subscribed to this if I’ve been here before? I’m wondering if utube unsubscribed me.
Very interesting well made videos!
I have a 2022 Camry, and it still has many physical buttons and an analog tachometer/speedo. The only thing I wish wasn't a button is the parking brake, I want to be able to pull the handbrake while moving but I definitely don't trust the electronics not to break. In my opinion screens are great for infotainment systems, but I like buttons, knobs and gauges for the rest.
He is the Lance Armstrong of engineering.
Massive video dude! Minor nitpick tho: NASA doesnt use pencils due to fire hazard possibility, anything flammable is forbbiden in space.
That was only much later. Russians stopped using pencils for the same reason. I used the anecdote more to stress the point about over engineering things, but I do see your point.
It's tragic this expose hasn't gone viral. It's a perfect list of reasons why Elon Musk is a con-artist and top tier journalism. I only hope it gets shared in the places and to the people who hate Elon Musk and can't eloquently explain why.
Tragically tragic. Only 4000 views and a cat video gets 10 million?
LOL, It's a conveniently incomplete FUD piece.
"who hate Elon musk and can't explain why" 😂😂🤦🤦
well, its a 3 hour video... hard to go viral in todays 15sec world
Because it’s been picked up by the algorithm as FUD
Very informative. Thank you.
as for the pencil thing with NASA, there are reasons why you don't want to do so, if one of those points break and that's almost a guaranteed now u have graphite fragments flying all around in your spaceship, graphite is conductive as well
another point of correction, hydrogen rockets didn't send Neil Armstrong to the moon, that rocket was the Saturn V, a kerosene burning rocket
love how the comments are filled with the exact drivel that's called out in the video
So I thought too at first but reading through several of these comments they seem to have a point.
We're clearly just jealous because Elon is rich and has achieved so much more than we ever will.
@@leonschmidt5769 you don't have to be jealous. the harmful part is presenting a bias that Elon is somehow a failure or will eventually fail. Tesla is already a mega-cap company, it is the only profitable EV car manufacturer, and the only company with the resources (cameras and training data) to produce self-driving cars. It doesn't matter how much or how little Elon had to do with that. The only thing that matters is that it's real...
@@BigHotSauceBoss69self driving 🤣
@@BigHotSauceBoss69Are you talking about the fully self driving cars that Musk has been claiming for decades now? Get real, it’s been “this year or next year at the latest” for years now. You really can’t see the problem with that business model?
@@angrydoggy9170 Never argue with drunks and fools. They're so not worth your time and energy.
For the model X, didn't minivans w the whole sliding door fix the whole "opening your rear door in a tight space" problem? 🤣 But it's true, the falcon wing doors do look pretty cool. Straight out of back to the future!
Yeah, sliding doors also break far less because they have less moving parts. It's crazy how over engineered Tesla's are
@@PeakedInterest even if I had the money, I'd never buy one. I'd rather have a Prius any day! It's funny how we think cars must have passed so much R&D to make it to the consumer. I have a 2016 Nissan Rogue SUV and you absolutely cannot open the rear windows if you're driving over 25 miles an hour, or the air pressure (?) Makes an absolutely horrible thunking sound nonstop that seems to be breaking your ear drums! 🤯
I thought that was just me! My friends think I'm annoying because I won't have the windows open in the car because that happens 😂
@@PeakedInterest amazing to think the car companies don't due more testing!! 🤯🤣🤯
Exactly! I mean it doesn't look as cool, but it works on both minivans and full size vans. You actually need far more space for the falcon wings as they have to rise up where as the sliding door stays against the body.
That was a great vid bud thank you
Amazing video! Thanks for the great time and effort you put into this!
Thank you, it really means a lot when people leave feedback. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
Your long form videos KILL IT so hard! I love the very detailed bg info that you share while managing to stay very engaging still. And the little jabs at Elon’s very fragile ego. This video deserves so much more recognition; it’s like a whole ass docuseries rundown!
Thank you. the research on this monster took ages
1.5 - 1.75 🙂
Thanks for your effort dude ! Love your work
the whole of big tech delves in the exact same fake pr tactics with ai currently, wich is absolutely not even close, to ai.
You're a clown! Listening to this bitter sociopathic deluded jealous stool, like he's not making up gem mines and 20p pocket money from his dad. He's an obvious liar through and through. he's not old enough for 20p to buy enough for 20p/15c to make your pockets bulge, unless he's a little toe-rag thief.
Words on their own baked up with nothing are meaningless. You believe what you want though. You Tube!
Pencils bring wood shavings and graphite fragments, so the Fisher Space Pen is better and ultimately a huge success!
The space pen vs pencil is a nice anecdote, however it’s not true. The space pen was developed because the pencils NASA had been using prior to that, caused small flakes of graphite to flake off.
Graphite is both conductive (so can cause short circuits), and it’s also flammable. It was developed for safety reasons, not because the engineers in NASA are stupid….
The pen thing was interesting at the time a pen was necessary because of the fear of the pencil dust getting into the ( delicate ) equipment , ok to chuck water around the capsules but pencil dust was considered a risk . Just saying .
Amazing video, so in depth
Brilliant opening; you've got yourself a new subscriber. 🌵👽
Thanks Todd. Really appreciate that
I love this documentary, I listen to it while I work!
1:30:00 The battery swap thing was a complete scam. Even today, it takes hours to replace a Tesla battery.
A company has managed to materialize the technology though, Tom scott did a video on it recently, so hopefully, that technology will become more prevalent!
I heard Nio does it
@@raeyner Well, it's nice to see that a company that seems more competent than Tesla is getting the ball rolling. Now unless they have a far larger amount of solar cells for the station than what is being shown in the video, then we still have the issue of them being largely powered by fossil fuels.
Haven’t finished it yet but as someone who’s friends with bottoms, this top CAN confirm the power they wield.
😂
@@PeakedInterest mercifully it’s not Peter Thiel levels of evil but…
As bad as musk seems to be thiel is actually worse
@@PeakedInterest oh totally! Both ought to get stuffed as the Brits say lol but I’ve definitely met nicer bottoms
🤣🤣🤣
In the auto industry, updates are known as "recalls".
He’s a principled man trying to saving humanity from the global oligarchy.
and how successful is he at that lol
Do you really think a billionaire is on your side? 🤣
@@Muhluri He’s on humanities side standing up to the puppet masters. If the people of the world don’t have a critical voice, the powerful can control and manipulate us. He’s going to potentially lose 44 billion dollars on principle standing up to free speech. He isn’t materialistic, he doesn’t even have a house right now.
Awesome video! Criminally underrated.
Any plans to release some other documentaries like that?
The biggest thing that is very obvious about this guy is that he rolls products out before doing proof of concept work. I will give him credit for getting electric cars on the road but that's 1950's golf cart technology.
3 Hours? Wow! I hope this will be a great video!
Well I hope it doesnt disappoint
Brilliant, thank you.
Good, detailed summary on Musk 👍
Thank you for all of your research
Well done editing 👏