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What Elon’s past tells us about his present

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Elon and Tesla

Elon Musk frequently says, I'm coming up with this new whatever. And then they don't materialize or they take years later. Do you think he's intentionally floating things that he knows won't show up? Or does he honestly believe when he says there's going to be a self-driving car X number of years from now that that's going to happen? In his head, he sets these deadlines and he sort of like expects people to hit them, even though nobody else does. He gets knocked all the time for the deadline stuff.

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