Elon Musk joins Xai & SpaceX into a trillion dollar giant privately owned company

Deranged, that’s for sure

 

Complex:

• Brilliant engineer - has more good ideas before breakfast than many in a lifetime
• Distracted too easily - gets into a new project and earlier ones are ignored.
• Poor people skills - multiple baby mothers, former employees, and no empathy

Bob Wilson

 

Perfect description

 

I’ll add; master of attracting federal dollars, and some bad ideas: boring company, flamethrower, gull wing doors, electric door locks, submersible rescue missions, the list goes on

 

Is he? Or is he more of an entrepreneur and skilled salesman, with lots of great engineers working under his employ?

A BA in physics goes only so far.

 

The economics degree contributes much more to the entrepreneurship than to the engineering.

 

and how many a day are they making?

 

None. It was a one off for publicity.
Is the Boring Company even still developing hyperloop tech?

 

Gull wing doors were on cars before Tesla was even thought of. I remember the Canadian Bricklin when I was growing up. It was marketed as the safest car. LOL

 

The Model X didn't have gull wing doors; those are just hinged at the top. It had falcon wing ones that had another hinge between the window and bottom of the door. Far as I know, that was a first. Which lead to developmental issues, and may have delayed the release of the car.

 

Speaking of the Boring Company's Vegas Loop, it was in the news last week:

Musk’s underground tunnels in Las Vegas face scrutiny over safety, environmental concerns

"LAS VEGAS (AP) — Elon Musk’s “Vegas Loop,” a network of underground tunnels to ferry passengers in Teslas, was under fresh scrutiny this week from Nevada lawmakers who raised concern about alleged workplace safety and environmental violations. . . .

Fines levied against the company
The Boring Company has been accused of breaking multiple safety and environmental rules. Between 2020 and 2026, 17 complaints were filed with the Nevada State Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Last year ProPublica reported the company was accused of nearly 800 environmental violations for its Las Vegas project.

Of those 17 complaints, one resulted in an inspection with eight proposed citations, including claims that 15 to 20 employees were injured after getting burned with accelerants and that there were no showers available for employees who got sprayed with the accelerants. Several other complaints are still open. The Boring Company has paid nearly $600,000 in fines, most of which went to the local water reclamation district for discharging untreated wastewater. The company is fighting around $355,000 in fines with Nevada’s OSHA and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.
. . ."

 

he should have cashed in with a chainsaw company. would have sold a ton in Texas

 

For the Boring Company in Vegas, those regulations include:
-- protecting working against getting burns from accelerants;
-- shower availability for workers sprayed by accelerants;
-- preventing a worker from suffering a crushing injury between two heavy pipes;
-- preventing discharge of untreated wastewater.

These regulations exist because so many businesses don't sufficiently care about their worker safety and pollution emissions.

 

They never really were. They were (and may still be) a good, focused company highly specialized in operating a machine that could dig tunnels of a certain diameter between two points under the earth. A very fancy shovel.

That's it. That's what they're good at, and anything else ever ascribed to them was just for show. Step 1: buy shovel. Step 2: ???? Step 3: roll around in hyperloop profit, and they are still between steps 1 and 2.

The tunnels they dig aren't even particularly useful for transportation- barely wide enough for a car to pass through, let alone standardized interstate motor freight or trains of standard gauge & height.

Fantastic for short pedestrian paths, technical plumbing networks and infrastructure access, but they would have to build a whole new machine (and support system) to dig tunnels large enough for all the other services needed to support the hyperloop idea.

 

Sounds like they would need to build a new machine if they wanted to just make a subway, or anything to manage anything larger than a Tesla car.

Some critiques of the plans not including ventilation and emergency access. Those could have been the 'Musk plans' and not the company's experts' though.