Elon Musk

Elon Musk Just Made This 10-year-old Fan's Day

... are very good, they look professional and they are entertaining. So, I think you should run a competition on who can make the best homemade Tesla commercial and the winners will get their commercial aired," Bria said. Musk praised Bria's suggestion. Media: Wibbitz. Elon Musk announced on Twitter yesterday that Tesla would hold a competition to find the best homemade advertisements for the company after he received a suggestion to do so from a 10-year-old Tesla enthusiast from Palo Alto, Calif. Fifth grader Bria wrote Musk that while she noticed the company didn’t make any advertisements, she thought the company could draw on the creativity of its fans, with the winning commercial airing on TV. Related: If You Crash Your Tesla to Save a Life, Elon Musk Might Foot the Bill. “The cool part is that you still won't be taking ...

Elon Musk Takes Business Advice From 10-year-old

... Loveday tweeted to ask the billionaire if he could help her out with her “school project” just in case he hadn’t spotted her letter. In the typed note, Bria suggested that Musk ran a competition for homemade adverts to promote the luxury electric car brand. She wrote: “So I think that you should run a competition on who can make the best homemade Tesla commercial and the winners will get their commercial aired. “The cool part is that you still won’t be taking the time and money to advertise for yourself. “Plus, this is something your fans and customers will definitely love. “You could give the winners a year of free Supercharging or a Model 3 Easter Egg or something.”. After spotting the tweet, billionaire Musk pledged his support for the school project. Thank you for the lovely letter. That sounds like a great idea. We'll do it! __link__/ss 2 ...

Billionaire Elon Musk Credits His Success To These 8 Books

... "The heroes of the books I read always felt a duty to save the world," he tells the New Yorker. 7. "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" by Peter Thiel. The book, based on notes from a popular class Thiel taught at Stanford University in 2012, focuses on the need for unique thinking among would-be startup founders. Musk says that his Paypal co-founder's book offers an interesting exploration of the process of building super successful companies. 8. The "Foundation" trilogy by Isaac Asimov. In a 2013 interview with The Guardian , Musk says Asimov's books taught him that "civilizations move in cycles," a lesson that encouraged the entrepreneur to pursue his radical ambitions. "Given that this is the first time in 4.5 billion years where it's been possible for humanity to extend life beyond Earth," he says, "it seems like we'd be wise to act while the window was open and not count on the fact it will be ...

Spacex Moon Mission Extends Elon Musk's Ambitions

... (ISS). But the circumlunar project is another step on from robotic cargo runs to low-Earth orbit. The Falcon Heavy, the much bigger rocket that will be needed, should make its debut this summer. The crew version of Dragon, with its all-important life-support equipment, is targeted to make its maiden voyage at the end of 2017. This will be an unmanned test outing; the first flight to the ISS with people aboard is slated for the spring of 2018. That does not leave much time to configure and adapt systems for the longer, more arduous Moon mission. Image copyright SPACEX. Image caption Apollo 8 was the first mission to go around the back of the Moon. The Dragon may need to carry some extra propellants, oxygen, water, etc, to help sustain the required trajectory and the passengers. Communications at a distance would also have to be considered. But Mr Musk in his telecon with reporters on Monday said that major modifications to the Dragon or the Falcon would not be required. The journey is likely ...

Complaints Of Horrid Working Conditions At Tesla Factory Are 'disingenuous Or Outright False

... benefits which mature over four years. He published a chart that did seem to support the idea that Tesla workers get paid less cash ($157,040, compared to $199,368 at GM), but it concluded that with the stock benefits, Tesla employees earned "70,000 and $100,000 more in total compensation" over that time, since 2013. As for overtime, he said that Tesla has already addressed that and as of January 1, employees were averaging "about 43 hours per week" and that the Model 3 will not result in as much mandatory overtime as the Model X. "The average amount of hours worked by production team members this year is about 43 hours per week. The percentage of overtime hours has declined by almost 50% since the super tough time we had last year achieving rate on the Model X, which is probably the hardest car to build in history. What an amazing accomplishment! It is also a lesson learned, which is why Model 3 is designed to be dramatically easier to manufacture. Free frozen yogurt and roller coaster. Musk made one more point. He wanted Tesla to be a "fun" place to work and was promising ...

Humans Must Merge With Machines Or Become Irrelevant In Ai Age

... in Dubai, where he also launched Tesla in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). "It's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.". show chapters. Friday, 13 Jan 2017 | 1:55 PM ET | 00:39. Musk explained what he meant by saying that computers can communicate at "a trillion bits per second", while humans, whose main communication method is typing with their fingers via a mobile device, can do about 10 bits per second. In an age when AI threatens to become widespread, humans would be useless, so there's a need to merge with machines, according to Musk. "Some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem," Musk explained. The technologists proposal would see a new layer of a brain able to ...

Elon Musk's Moon Mission Is Exciting, Audacious

... how to manage emergencies and survive the physical rigors of flight; the spacecraft will be doing all of the flying automatically. The mission will also be the simplest moon journey possible — a so-called circumlunar trajectory, in which the ship simply swings around the far side of the moon and allows lunar gravity to fling it home, rather than settling into orbit. Orbiting the moon is not only more difficult but vastly more dangerous. If your braking engine burns too long as you slow down to settle into orbit, you'll crash into the surface of the moon instead. If the engine fails to fire when it's time to speed up and head home, you'll become a permanent satellite of the moon, forever imprisoned in orbit. It was that dark scenario that had a lot of planners inside NASA arguing for a circumlunar trajectory for Apollo 8, but the orbital advocates won the day and the crew eventually made 10 circuits of the moon before coming home. Musk's boast that the crew will travel farther from home than humans ever have is legitimate, but is actually less than it seems. The current distance record is held by the ...

Elon Musk Is Running Out Of Money

... to $1 billion after its launch. On Wednesday, Musk explained that Tesla can launch the Model 3 without raising more money, but it would probably be prudent to have some extra cash on hand. “How close to the edge do we want to go? According to our financial plan, no capital needs to be raised for the Model 3, but we get very close to the edge,” Musk told analysts on a conference call after reporting earnings this week. But since “that’s probably not the best thing for shareholders,” he continued, “it probably makes sense to raise capital to reduce the risk.”. Being “very close to the edge” is not new for Musk, who famously went deep into personal debt during the financial crisis, as both Tesla and Space X, the private space company for which he also serves as founder and C. E. O., veered close to insolvency. (Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, who has invested in both businesses, has called Musk the “most risk-immune person ...

Elon Musk Says He'll Build A Roller Coaster At His Tesla Car Factory

... stands scattered around the factory and my personal favourite: a Tesla electric pod car roller coaster (with an optional loop the loop route, of course!) that will allow fast and fun travel throughout our Fremont campus, dipping in and out of the factory and connecting all the parking lots. 'It’s going to get crazy good.'. Musk also revealed that employees can earn up to £80,450 ($100,000) by taking out discounted shares in the company. He said his goal was to make his factories as 'safe, fair and fun as possible'. The tech mogul also told employees he would throw 'a really amazing party' at his Palo Alto headquarters, pictured, which has around 6,000 employees. EMPLOYEES IN A GOOD MOOD ARE 12% MORE PRODUCTIVE. Researcher has shown that Elon Musk may have the right idea - and that happy employees really do work harder. In a series of lab tests last year, scientists found ...

Elon Musk Is Really Boring

... to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We’re just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.” On Inauguration Day, Trump promised “new roads and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.”. Like the Boring Company itself, Trump’s big-league construction agenda seems a little half-baked, but the possibility has already prompted private equity firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle to plan big infrastructure investments. “Infrastructure is at an inflection moment in the United States, where both parties agree on that one thing,” said Joe Baratta, Blackstone’s global head of private equity, during a Bloomberg TV interview in late January. He said his firm would raise as much as $40 billion for the efforts. Featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Feb. 20-26, 2017.  Subscribe ...