There are still basic laws for obvious crimes. If Elon Musk kills someone he will be arrested. Maybe I’m just crazy, but if my Dad didn’t took me away and didn’t let my Mom see me when I was 3 years old, I think the cops would have been at his door pretty quickly.
What I suspect is that Grimes signed some weird agreement that Elon could basically have the kid whenever he wants or something, and now she’s claiming he’s violating that by never letting her see her own kid. But the news reporting always basically makes it sound like he’s kidnapped the child and there’s nothing the mother can do about it except try to serve papers.
The Reuters report also highlighted Musk’s personal disregard to safety, with the CEO documented while waving around a flame thrower at the company’s site in Hawthorne and his request to paint over the safety yellow color of machinery to change it to black or blue due to his aversion to bright colors.
The serving papers stuff happened in October. The tweets are from a month before. Seems like Grimes and Zillis might have wanted to tone down the publicly visible stuff but the kid issues weren’t actually fixed.
The line for obvious crime is different for you and me than it is for Elon. He’s not going to point his 50 caliber at a crowd and start blasting, but he’s already killed a good number of Sklansky people. There’s no chance he gets arrested.
So possible second launch seven months later (a bit higher than Elon’s 1-2 month estimate). That said, this seems like such bad reporting with every article just citing the tweet and saying launch expected. Given Elon’s past over-promising, you’d expect some discussion of whether regulatory approval is likely to be imminent (e.g. is he just waiting for bureaucratic rubber stamp, or are there actual real hurdles).
edit: finally found an article that explains they are waiting for Fish & Wildlife to complete their review. Sounds like they are getting pressure to finish the review and could be any day, or could take months.
The tweets and articles, the congressional testimony, and much of the recent activity around the pad (I’ve lost count of the stack/destack events since they said they were ready) seem to be a full-court press by Elon to get the regulators to move. It’s his MO. It certainly affected FWS and I think they’re likely to submit soon. The environmental lawsuit is still pending but won’t hold up a launch. I think it’s a matter of days, maybe hours, before they get a license.
For Cybertruck Only: You understand and acknowledge that the Cybertruck will first be released in limited quantity. You agree that you will not sell or otherwise attempt to sell the Vehicle within the first year following your Vehicle’s delivery date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you must sell the Vehicle within the first year following its delivery date for any unforeseen reason, and Tesla agrees that your reason warrants an exception to its no reseller policy, you agree to notify Tesla in writing and give Tesla reasonable time to purchase the Vehicle from you at its sole discretion and at the purchase price listed on your Final Price Sheet less $0.25/mile driven, reasonable wear and tear, and the cost to repair the Vehicle to Tesla’s Used Vehicle Cosmetic and Mechanical Standards. If Tesla declines to purchase your Vehicle, you may then resell your Vehicle to a third party only after receiving written consent from Tesla.
You agree that in the event you breach this provision, or Tesla has reasonable belief that you are about to breach this provision, Tesla may seek injunctive relief to prevent the transfer of title of the Vehicle or demand liquidated damages from you in the amount of $50,000 or the value received as consideration for the sale or transfer, whichever is greater. Tesla may also refuse to sell you any future vehicles.
That’s actually a very reasonable price to offer, right?
Let’s say that the final price I pay is $90k all in. And I drive it ALOT for 6 months and put 20k miles on it. That means that they’d offer me around $85k, as long as I haven’t damaged it, and minus reasonable wear and tear.
They’re practically willing to buy it back at list price for the first year. This isn’t quite a resale value guarantee, but it does mean that Tesla probably expects to be able to sell used Cybertrucks for practically new prices.
Cars will often lose 10% of their value as soon as you drive them off the lot, and take a huge chunk of their depreciation in the first year. I think Tesla could’ve reasonably offered to buy back at much higher depreciation rates, if they thought that was actually going to be an issue.
The launch will be exciting. If it’s the middle of the night idk if I want to watch bc I might not be able to go back to sleep. Adrenaline kicks in like I’m one of Pavlov’s dogs.
I assume there are a lot of pieces of government that coordinate for launches so you’d think even if they had the license things are likely to be impacted. No real clue tho and probably a bit down the list of real problems we are going to get to enjoy.
What a terrible turn!