Lisa #TeslaTruth

I keep seeing people say, “Everyone thought Elon Musk was crazy when he wanted to build electric cars and reusable rockets, too!” But these are NOT the same thing. When Elon was pushing electric cars, he was challenging the idea that EVs couldn’t compete with gasoline vehicles. When he was pushing reusable rockets that could land themselves, he was challenging the idea that rockets had to be disposable. Both were engineering challenges that could be solved through innovation. But claiming that autonomous vehicles will eventually eliminate the need for personal car ownership is an entirely different argument. That’s not just an engineering challenge. That’s a prediction about human behavior. People don’t own cars simply because they have to drive them. They own cars for convenience, freedom, privacy, flexibility, personal preference, and the ability to go wherever they want, whenever they want. Self-driving technology could absolutely revolutionize transportation. I believe it will. But there’s a MASSIVE difference between making cars that drive themselves and convincing the world that nobody will want to own one. Just because Elon proved people wrong about EVs and rockets doesn’t mean every prediction he makes about the future is automatically correct.