Tagged: Tesla

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Vid: “Teslas Will Be Self-Driving Next Year” Says Elon Musk

Self-driving cars are closer than we thought. According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, some Tesla cars will be 90% autonomous by next year! Those are cars on the road, driven by consumers. Not just theoretical, experimental cars. For decades, self-driving cars were but a pipe-dream, professed by futurists as the answer to all of life’s problems. In modern times, Google and other companies have...

Elon Musk, Before Paypal: The Interview You Haven’t Seen…

Elon Musk gives quite the interview today. As the founder of several multi-billion-dollar, revolutionary companies, he’s got a lot to say. It turns out that before Paypal, his first huge win, he had a lot to say as well. This previously buried clip of Elon Musk, gives us insight into the visionary, before his vision for Paypal was fully developed. We hear the full...

Elon Musk takes ALS ice bucket challenge

Elon Musk Takes Ice Bucket Challenge

Elon Musk took the ice bucket challenge after being nominated by Bill Gates, who was nominated by Mark Zuckerberg. He did build a custom contraption to dump water on his head, but it didn’t rival Gates’s welded masterpiece. Still, the video was very cute, with Elon’s five young sons dumping water on him by pulling strings to release colorful elevated buckets from a tree....

Arriving Soon: Your Personal Helicopter

Flying cars. They never really took off, despite dozens of attempts. Still, the concept is really appealing. Could we build a vehicle that can bypass the busy roads, and fly us directly to our destination? I believe that by 2030 (probably earlier), there will such a product, but it won’t look like every other attempt over the past 60 years. Here’s why, and how we’ll...

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Hyperloop for Dummies (and non-engineers): How it Works

Is Elon Musk’s hyperloop system really revolutionary? We made a guide that makes it much easier to understand, so you can decide for yourself. What is Hyperloop? Hyperloop is a high speed capsule that is shot through a low-pressure tube using industrial air pumps. It’s incredibly cost-effective, incredibly fast (740 miles per hour), and incredibly efficient (100% solar powered). Why was Hyperloop Designed? Elon...