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minus-squaretheonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·1 year agoSpaceX hasn’t killed anyone, incidentally it’s also the company musk has the least power over.
minus-squareHemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoI wouldn’t necessarily call those two facts “incidental”. I’d be pretty confident calling it “cause and effect”.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoTesla is publicly traded and has a board of directors. I believe Musk has more than half the votes though SpaceX is privately owned by him and Gwynne Shotwell only serves as COO because Musk is happy with her in that role
minus-squaretheonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoTesla engineers are limited in their pursuit of whatever weird shit Elon wants by pretty lose car safety standards. SpaceX has to comply with two governments, a dozen other companies, and hundreds of insurance companies safety standards.
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoAnd? That is the bar it needs to cross to not be a steaming bad of turds?
minus-squaretheonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoNot, really, it would need to be better, by every measure, than all of its competition. And SpaceX is.
SpaceX hasn’t killed anyone, incidentally it’s also the company musk has the least power over.
I wouldn’t necessarily call those two facts “incidental”. I’d be pretty confident calling it “cause and effect”.
whoosh
Tesla is publicly traded and has a board of directors. I believe Musk has more than half the votes though
SpaceX is privately owned by him and Gwynne Shotwell only serves as COO because Musk is happy with her in that role
Tesla engineers are limited in their pursuit of whatever weird shit Elon wants by pretty lose car safety standards. SpaceX has to comply with two governments, a dozen other companies, and hundreds of insurance companies safety standards.
loose*?
There’s still time
And? That is the bar it needs to cross to not be a steaming bad of turds?
Not, really, it would need to be better, by every measure, than all of its competition. And SpaceX is.