Archive for the ‘Elon Musk’ category: Page 231
Elon Musk is an engineer at heart, a tinkerer, a problem-solver—the kind of person Popular Mechanics has always championed—and the problems he’s trying to solve are hard. Really hard. He could find better ways to spend his money, that’s for sure. And yet there he is, trying to build gasless cars and build reusable rockets and build tunnels that make traffic go away. For all his faults and unpredictability, we need him out there doing that. We need people who have ideas. We need people who take risks.
We need people who try.
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Nov 3, 2018
Elon Musk and SpaceX are building a monster rocket for Mars. Here’s how big it is compared to 20 familiar objects
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Nov 3, 2018
Starman and Tesla Roadster Have Shot Past Mars, SpaceX Says
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability
SpaceX’s Starman and cherry red Tesla Roadster have traveled beyond Mars. SpaceX shared a diagram of the car once driven by the aerospace manufacturer’s CEO Elon Musk indicating it has now reached beyond the Red Planet.
Sharing Starman’s current position in a diagram to Twitter, SpaceX also tweeted a nod to Douglas Adams’ seminal work The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is beloved by Musk. (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe refers to the second book in the series.) The dash of the Roadster itself even has a nod to Hitchhiker’s Guide, as Space.com notes the words “Don’t Panic” on its control panel also appeared on a cover of the novel.
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Nov 1, 2018
Elon Musk said Tesla owners will be able to drive their cars with their phones in around 6 weeks
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: Elon Musk, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation
Tesla owners will soon be able to drive their cars with their phones, Elon Musk said.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday via Twitter that an upcoming software update will allow Tesla owners to drive their cars with their phones in some situations.
“Car will drive to your phone location & follow you like a pet if you hold down summon button on Tesla app,” Musk said.
Oct 25, 2018
Elon Musk’s superfast LA underground ‘loop’ is coming sooner than you think
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cybercrime/malcode, Elon Musk
Oct 18, 2018
Elon Musk says ‘Teslaquila’ is ‘coming soon’ as Tesla files trademark
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Oct 16, 2018
Tesla aims for new neural net computer in production in 6 months, results in 500‑2000% increase in ops/sec, says Elon Musk
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI
Tesla CEO Elon Musk updated the timeline to release the company’s new neural net computer, which they claimed will be the ‘world’s most advanced computer for autonomous driving’.
They are now aiming for the new computer to be in production in about 6 months and it could result in a 500‑2000% increase in operation per second, according to Musk.
The release of this new computer with Tesla’s own AI chip would be the culmination of a long project that Tesla started about 3 years ago as it anticipated a need for more computing power in its vehicles.
Oct 12, 2018
Air Force awards contracts for new rocket prototypes to United Launch Alliance, Northrup Grumman and Blue Origin
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, military, space travel
United Launch Alliance, Northrup Grumman and Blue Origin, a company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, were awarded major Air Force contracts Wednesday totaling more than $2 billion to develop next-generation rockets capable of boosting high-value national security payloads into orbit.
Two of the new rockets will be selected in a second competition, providing assured access to space through the next decade and beyond. In a surprise to some observers, SpaceX, the ambitious rocket company founded by Elon Musk, was not among the latest winners in the Pentagon’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
The Launch Service Agreements “will facilitate the development of three domestic launch system prototypes and enable the future competitive selection of two National Security Space launch service providers for future procurements, planned for no earlier than fiscal year 2020,” the Air Force said in a statement.
