[398], In January 2015, Musk made a guest appearance playing himself on The Simpsons in an episode titled "The Musk Who Fell to Earth"; the episode poked fun at many of Musk's ideas. RELATED: Upcoming SpaceX Starlink Satellite Launch to Set New Milestones. In July 2016, Tesla began developing Autopilot, their advanced driver-assistance system, in-house after Mobileye ended its partnership with Tesla, citing safety concerns following a fatal crash in May 2016 where the driver of a Model S using Autopilot was killed. Urban planning expert Brent Toderian started the hashtag #GreatThingsThatHappenedonTransit which was widely adopted by Twitter users in order to dispel Musk's notion that everybody hated public transport. [364], In July 2014, Musk was asked by cartoonist Matthew Inman and William Terbo, the grandnephew of Nikola Tesla, to donate US$8 million toward the construction of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. Since it was founded, OpenAI has engaged in a number of AI and robotics-related applications. [126][127][128] In addition to its own cars, Tesla sold electric powertrain systems to Daimler for the Smart EV, Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive and Mercedes A Class, and to Toyota for the RAV4 EV. "[303][304], Musk has frequently spoken about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, calling it "the most serious threat to the survival of the human race". There have been many foolish things the United States has done and bad things the United States has done. In 2004, he contributed US$2,000 to President George W. Bush's reelection campaign, maxing out (over US$100,000)[279] to Barack Obama's reelection campaign and donated US$5,000 to Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who represents Florida, a state critical to the space industry. The Unusual Collaboration Between AI, Robotics and Theater, Elon Musk has recently updated people via Twitter, Hackers TRICKED a Tesla: The Race to Fooling Artificial Intelligence, Upcoming SpaceX Starlink Satellite Launch to Set New Milestones. [19][21][25] His maternal grandfather, Dr. Joshua Haldeman, was an American-born Canadian. "[331][340][341][342] In addition, he promoted articles which suggested that healthcare companies were inflating COVID-19 case numbers for financial reasons, promoted a paper on the benefits of chloroquine that was subsequently widely discredited and pulled down by Google, and retweeted a video calling for an immediate end to social distancing measures, adding "[d]ocs make good points".[343][344]. [218] According to Tesla and SpaceX board member Steve Jurvetson, the tunnel width is optimized for electric vehicles only, which avoids complications of exhaust venting with internal combustion engines. A second set of test satellites and the first large deployment of a piece of the constellation occurred on May 24, 2019 UTC when the first 60 operational satellites were launched. The lawsuit claimed that verbal discussions Musk held with foreign investors in July 2018 did not confirm key deal terms[153] and thus characterized the tweet as false, misleading, and damaging to investors, and sought to bar Musk from serving as CEO on publicly traded companies. where he was briefly met by one of the main characters, Ned Flemming played by Bryan Cranston, in a bar at a party. At a Tesla event on the sidelines of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in December 2017, Musk stated that: I think public transport is painful. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel construction company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles. There are some scary outcomes. [e][396], In Iron Man 2 (2010), Musk met Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in a restaurant, and had a brief line regarding an "idea for an electric jet. The company developed and marketed an internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry, with maps, directions and yellow pages, with the vector graphics mapping and direction code being implemented by Musk in Java. In this endeavor, SpaceX has developed a number of launch vehicles, some of them used by NASA for its space missions, including the Starlink and Crew Dragon projects. [149][150], In September 2018, Musk was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a tweet claiming that funding had been secured for potentially taking Tesla private[151] (at a price of $420 a share, an alleged reference to marijuana[152]). [114] [citation needed] On May 25, 2012, the SpaceX Dragon vehicle berthed with the ISS, making history as the first commercial company to launch and berth a vehicle to the International Space Station. [61] Compaq acquired Zip2 for US$307 million in cash[62] in February 1999. And so that's why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want. In February 2018, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket, which is the most powerful rocket in operation today and the fourth highest capacity rocket ever built. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received dual bachelor's degrees in economics and physics.
They housed the venture at a small rented office in Palo Alto. The company provided “internet guide” and “publishing tools online”. Led by Samsung and Apple: Is UWB The Next Big Smartphone Tech? [402] Musk also appeared in the Werner Herzog-directed documentary Lo and Behold (2016). [38], Although Musk's father insisted that Elon go to college in Pretoria, Musk became determined to move to the United States, saying "I remember thinking and seeing that America is where great things are possible, more than any other country in the world. [259][260] On January 30, 2020, Musk released an EDM track, "Don't Doubt Ur Vibe", featuring his own lyrics and vocals. They are dealing with a lot of investors for whom subsidies are not the basis for a long-term viable business, and they often want to exaggerate the speed with which they are going to be able to become independent." "[168] The time from the initial ground-breaking to the production of first cars at the Shanghai Gigafactory was achieved in under one year.
[53], In 1995, Musk and his brother Kimbal and Greg Kouri[54] started Zip2, a web software company, with money raised from a small group of angel investors. [266][267] In an interview on 60 Minutes, Musk said of the cannabis-smoking incident: "I do not smoke pot. [64][59], In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2. It merged with Confinity in 2000, which had launched PayPal the previous year and was subsequently bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002. [162], Since the incident, Musk has been a vocal critic of the SEC, stating emphatically in a 60 Minutes interview that he did "not respect the SEC" and on Twitter by referring to it as the "short-seller enrichment committee" multiple times. The joint company was renamed PayPal and sold to eBay in 2002. [125] Tesla began delivery of its four-door Model S sedan on June 22, 2012. [376][377][378], In 2008, Musk began dating English actress Talulah Riley, and in 2010, the couple married. The revised BFR design was to use seven identically-sized Raptor engines in the second stage; the same engine model as would be used on the first stage. [182], In June 2014, Musk committed to building a SolarCity advanced production facility in Buffalo, New York, that would triple the size of the largest solar plant in the United States.
[85] The first stage recovery was replicated several times in 2016 by landing on an autonomous spaceport drone ship, an ocean-based recovery platform,[86] and by the end of 2017, SpaceX had landed and recovered the first stage on 16 consecutive missions where a landing and recovery were attempted, including all 14 attempts in 2017. Significant development on the vehicles began in 2017, with an initial prototype unveiled in September 2019,[101] while the new rocket engine (Raptor) development began in 2012,[102][103] with a first test flight performed in August 2019. Tesla's former vice president of business development and former U.S. State Department official, Diarmuid O’Connell, was the automaker's lead negotiator. [67] In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million. [382][383] The divorce was finalized in late 2016. As for Musk specifically, the same report said that "SpaceX's campaign to win political support has been systematic and sophisticated," and that "unlike most tech-startups, SpaceX has maintained a significant lobbying presence in Washington almost since day 1." "[158] In a December 2018 interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, Musk stated, "I want to be clear.
He co-founded Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Tesla Motors first built an electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, in 2008, with sales of about 2,500 vehicles to 31 countries, which was the first serial production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells. "Elon Musk's new EDM single reviewed – 'Bringing erectile dysfunction to the masses! Who cares! [138] On July 29, 2016 the first phase of Gigafactory 1, a lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle subassembly factory, was officially opened near Reno, Nevada, by Tesla in partnership with Panasonic. By 2016, Musk's private trust held 54% of SpaceX stock, equivalent to 78% of voting shares. Atkinson stated "That's not a very winning message if you want to get AI funding out of Congress to the National Science Foundation. [292] He has engaged with short-selling critics via social media and used Tesla merchandise as a means of mocking those who short the Tesla stock. Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate, industrial designer, engineer, and philanthropist. Japanese trains are awful.
[227] Richard Stanton, leader of the international rescue diving team, also urged Musk to continue construction of the mini-submarine as a back-up, in case flooding worsened. [59] The merged company focused on the PayPal service and was renamed PayPal in 2001. In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk envisioned an open-source high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop based on the concept of a vactrain.
"[29] He also has a half-sister[30] and a half-brother on his father's side. [331] In early 2020, Musk likened some aspects of COVID-19 to the common cold and stated that "the coronavirus panic is dumb",[332][333][334] and "danger of panic still far exceeds danger of corona imo.
In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. [408], In October 2017, Musk was mentioned as being part of the shared Star Trek universe on the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery. [381] The media announced in March 2016 that divorce proceedings were again underway, this time with Riley filing for divorce from Musk. Musk is one of six alumni of the group to reach billionaire status. Might have a prototype booster hop done by then.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. ", "Brisbane's urban planning 'average' and making residents sick, expert says", "Elon Musk Calls Transit Expert 'An Idiot,' Says Public Transport 'Sucks, "In cities, @elonmusk's hatred of sharing space with strangers is a luxury (or pathology) that only the rich can afford. Musk further stated that political contributions are a requirement in order to have a voice in the United States government. [99] In September 2016, Musk revealed details of his architecture to explore and colonize Mars.
The diver sued Musk for defamation; a California jury ruled in favor of Musk. Twenty years later, Musk still sometimes sleeps in his office during busy work periods. And it doesn't go all the time.
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