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Elon Musk Predicts Humanoid Robots Will Start Shaping Countries’ GDPs Within 5 Years. Robot Cars In Just 1 To 2

NoseRepresentative | 2025-12-16 18:39 | 177 views

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Jax72 2025-12-16 18:43

He's never wrong with his predictions.

ai-ate-my-homework 2025-12-16 18:45

Yep, and FSD will get you from NYC to LA hands free... Trust me bro

ipub 2025-12-16 18:47

Have any of his promises actually come true

dirtydeedsyeah 2025-12-16 18:47

I think he's undercutting the whole colonies of humanoid robots we'll have on mars by that time. He's undersells like this so much, what a humble guy!!!

Bobert77 2025-12-16 18:48

Is this his way of telling us it’s at least 10 years away?

Clockwork385 2025-12-16 18:48

as always.

auto_named 2025-12-16 18:49

Famously never incorrect man, Elon Musk

jhaluska 2025-12-16 18:50

Now we know it won't happen.

JimJamBangBang 2025-12-16 18:51

Stop giving this guy exposure.

MeridianNL 2025-12-16 18:51

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_predictions\_for\_autonomous\_Tesla\_vehicles\_by\_Elon\_Musk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk) [https://elonmusk.today/](https://elonmusk.today/) [http://whompywheels.com/](http://whompywheels.com/) etc. etc.

gamb82 2025-12-16 18:52

Im wainting to take a ride with one good looking robot girl in my 15 years old tesla gt, or whatever was its name...

[deleted] 2025-12-16 18:52

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TryIsntGoodEnough 2025-12-16 18:52

Correct, he never said "5 years from today" so it is 5 years from some day in the future

Anonymoushipopotomus 2025-12-16 18:52

Full fsd by 2016

TwitterSucksNow 2025-12-16 18:53

I'd trust a Street Preacher screaming "the end is near" every day more that I would this con artist. Why anyone believes anything with his track record of "predictions" is beyond me.

Mister_Green2021 2025-12-16 18:54

When are we going to Mars again?

I_Am_Mandark_Hahaha 2025-12-16 18:54

Humanid is the most inefficient robotic form factor. Specialized robots for specialized tasks are more efficient and cost-effective. Humanoid robots will require massive resources to get even a fraction of the data needed to operate them.

s3ik0 2025-12-16 18:55

This rube can't even get one of his cars to drive by itself in a shitty hole he dug.

Jaguarmadillo 2025-12-16 18:55

But clowning on Elmo is so much fun.

Overall_Curve6725 2025-12-16 18:55

Ketamine talking

mapf0000 2025-12-16 18:56

Space X will go public, so he has to pump that in addition to tesla.

zedk47 2025-12-16 18:56

I'm writing to you from Mars: Elon is a trustworthy guy

ColdBagOfHamsters 2025-12-16 18:57

Mars next year too? Fly there on an fsd roadster?

[deleted] 2025-12-16 18:57

Did they mean by the time you get there you won't have any hands? Hands free isn't exactly well defined here given that tesla's full self driving isn't full self driving and its autopilot isn't actually an autopilot so hands free could mean anything...

RoyalGovernment3034 2025-12-16 18:57

I can't believe anyone could still possibly believe this fuckface isn't openly lying to them to keep his scam ship afloat

thegingerstark 2025-12-16 18:58

Ketamine.

Robo-X 2025-12-16 18:59

Just like FSD promised next year since 2014.

sidc42 2025-12-16 18:59

He never says "Earth Years" just years. If you assume everything he says is based on a Year on one of the outer planets then he has never missed a deadline ever.

a_Sable_Genus 2025-12-16 18:59

Ivermectin has what the plants crave. It has electrolytes!

art-is-t 2025-12-16 18:59

Elon musk is an immense fool. Why must anyone listen to him

Fastpas123 2025-12-16 19:00

Is it really legal to just manipulate investors like this? This guy's forecasts have been nearly 100% Bs.

jeramyfromthefuture 2025-12-16 19:00

i huffed some paint once too , similar rubbish came out my mouth at that time too. no one was stupid enough to put me in charge of any companies though

sabbathan1 2025-12-16 19:02

Did he make this prediction from his personal Mars colony?

exbusinessperson 2025-12-16 19:03

Why not the next 2 weeks?

marabutt 2025-12-16 19:03

I predict fully automated self-driving cars no later than 2017. Also 124% of all jobs replaced by ai.

Whatwhyreally 2025-12-16 19:03

NY to LA baby!

chimpyjnuts 2025-12-16 19:03

Is this after they deliver the Roadster? Or after they sell the 500,000th Cyber Truck?

0Rider 2025-12-16 19:03

I bet you say atm machine too

Ambitious_Bread_84 2025-12-16 19:03

Bitch just pulls timelines from his arse.

Wolv90 2025-12-16 19:04

Why do we take his predictions as anything other than lies to try and prop up his own business?

QuantumConversation 2025-12-16 19:05

Elon Musk is an entitled dimwit. His predictions are meaningless.

Pentanubis 2025-12-16 19:06

A conman liar selling fraud.

allen_abduction 2025-12-16 19:06

Ever! Oh, I mean never. From last week, those robots (I mean human operators) are all most ready!! https://youtube.com/shorts/1N6RXQIWaiE?si=MRT5273ZEsWcsmjR

Turbulent-Pea-8826 2025-12-16 19:06

This will happen just not in the time frame he says. Robot cars in 5 years, maybe and robots 10 years seems more accurate. Even then that’s just the beginning. 20 years out is probably going to be a scary time. AI, robots and robo cars will be reaching maturity. No one will have a job.

Buddycat350 2025-12-16 19:06

Musk has mental diarrhea again and decides to share it with the whole world episode n+1.

CetisLupedis 2025-12-16 19:06

Full FSD self driving

americansherlock201 2025-12-16 19:07

So we are at least 25 years from robot cars and 200 from humanoid workers

foo-bar-25 2025-12-16 19:07

The inevitable collapse is going to be epic.

edgefull 2025-12-16 19:08

the ketamine liar

LeperousRed 2025-12-16 19:08

He’s a liar and his Ponzi Scheme depends entirely upon his ability to keep predicting amazing new products which will change the world and yet which he never seems to deliver. I expect his idiot canceling to guzzle this new lie down as well.

al3xtec 2025-12-16 19:10

As long as he can hire enough servant human workers to puppet the robots.

surfnfish1972 2025-12-16 19:10

The man is spiraling deeper and deeper into delusion. Are all our Tech Overlords dangerously insane?

tired_fella 2025-12-16 19:12

And we were landing peoples on Mars 5 years ago

tired_fella 2025-12-16 19:13

He released his ugly Cybertruck, that got quickly discontinued

JonnyLosak 2025-12-16 19:14

Self driving cars we can rent out while we’re at work in 2023!

baz4k6z 2025-12-16 19:14

Hes probably just high all the time now

Veutifuljoe_0 2025-12-16 19:16

From a practical standpoint, humanoid robots simply don’t make sense outside of ….. adult activities. No industrial site is going to prefer a humanoid robot over a specially designed machine

Veutifuljoe_0 2025-12-16 19:17

I’ve been making the argument for a long time that the only thing a humanoid robot would actually be ideal for, is “adult” activities, other than that it just makes no sense to design one on humans

Sledgahammer 2025-12-16 19:18

Same guy who predicted his toy cars were going to drive coast to coast in 2017.

punktualPorcupine 2025-12-16 19:21

So before he figures out Fully Self Driving, or after he founds a colony on Mars, or at the same time that he builds Hyperloops in every major city? I’m just trying to figure out the timeline.

QuitCallingNewsrooms 2025-12-16 19:22

And FSD? When can we expect that?

T4N60SUKK4 2025-12-16 19:22

I hope he’s right. I’m ready for a drastic change in our world and I don’t see this as a bad thing.

UmichAgnos 2025-12-16 19:24

You're assuming a simple addition type correction. If you multiply the fact that FSD is still a year away from ten years ago, robots are a century away.

Skid-Vicious 2025-12-16 19:24

Well, now we know what's not gonna happen.

UmichAgnos 2025-12-16 19:25

So new roadsters are multiple decades away then?

ItchyCartographer44 2025-12-16 19:25

What about the hyperloop?

NaughticalNarwhal 2025-12-16 19:26

Hey investors I can cook up some crazy crap, and say whatever nonsense rolls through my brain. Why don’t you fill my pockets with quickly depreciating cash? Umm… I’m going to found a colony on… Venus!? Oh and I’ll figure out cold fusion by the end of the decade. Instead of fully self driving cars, I’m just going to do planes. I’ll call it eX-Plane because I’m not explaining how it will work.

Chemical_Enthusiasm4 2025-12-16 19:26

People grossly overestimate the cost of having humans do some jobs. Self driving cars are great for times you would pay extra not to have a human driving your car. Otherwise a human driver costs less, except MAYBE somewhere with very high cost of living.

Individual-Mud262 2025-12-16 19:27

“I believe you are as smart, as you can predict the further well” - Musk

americansherlock201 2025-12-16 19:28

Not saying we shouldn’t have these things. Saying if Elon is saying we’re close, it means we’re really far off

GlassHeart09 2025-12-16 19:29

And this is a prediction based on...his stock pumping needs?

Kind-Pop-7205 2025-12-16 19:30

My Tesla drove cross country by itself in 2016, and my flying Tesla Roadster is pretty cool.

TSJormungandr 2025-12-16 19:30

Robot CEOs please.

Icy-person666 2025-12-16 19:31

I agree but not how he thinks, it will hold back the country 's GDP in ever increasing amounts as it funnels actual product funds to Elon 's pocket then when it collapses its going to be the actual tax payers who will have to clean up the financial mess rather than improveing the market.

VitaminPb 2025-12-16 19:31

That’s why the giant sunglasses.

Conscious-Bee-5691 2025-12-16 19:32

In a few years in 2024. just 4 years After we will have 1 mil robotaxis. 2015 is a good year to live today

Mister_Green2021 2025-12-16 19:32

Pump aka lie

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VitaminPb 2025-12-16 19:33

It’s not discontinued! It just has a 10+ year inventory to deplete before the refresh for FSD and 500 mile battery is released. /s

[deleted] 2025-12-16 19:34

I’m on Mars

VitaminPb 2025-12-16 19:34

Robot robotaxis serving half the country!

Opcn 2025-12-16 19:35

As soon as they unlock time travel they are gonna deliver on that promise.

marmaviscount 2025-12-16 19:36

I could list ten things off the top of my head he said he was going to do and then failed to deliver but that would be boring, and the other 9 would be solar roofs cheaper than regular roofs, self drive, Tesla chip super computer, redwood, vacuum trains, trips to Mars, vertically integrated fully automated factories, dominating the heavy goods vehicle market, ultra cheap microhomes, the everything app, doge, quitting at Twitter CEO if the users voted... I think I went over Though this time I think there's a good chance he's right, only because he's not saying what he'll do but what other people will do. The years is honestly probably on the conservative side of estimation when you look at how rapid tech development with ai has been.

VitaminPb 2025-12-16 19:37

The world is largely made for humans. One humanoid robot can perform many tasks instead of a home have 20+ specialized robots needing charging and storage. But then you also need to consider sanitation and cleanliness of the robot itself. Is it going to scrub the toilet then move right to cooking dinner without a sanitation cycle?

Veutifuljoe_0 2025-12-16 19:38

There’s a reason combine harvesters are the way they are, humans are versatile but far from optimized to do anything

heleuma 2025-12-16 19:38

I wish someone would create an avatars or emoji they could use when posting or writing articles about this guy. It's really a drag to see his stupid face so much.

VitaminPb 2025-12-16 19:38

April 1st demo, next year. Guaranteed after they pushed it from “end of 2025 demo for sure.”

VitaminPb 2025-12-16 19:39

They are important guidance for what the next missed targets are.

Brave_Nerve_6871 2025-12-16 19:41

Ketamine and other drugs still seem to be working

UmichAgnos 2025-12-16 19:41

"Guaranteed" at Tesla means a lot less than it usually does.

ianbattlesrobots 2025-12-16 19:43

How's that roadster coming along?

VitaminPb 2025-12-16 19:45

I do not expect to need a combine harvester in my house. (Nor do I expect to have a humanoid robot.)

Glidepath22 2025-12-16 19:46

I mean look how fast we made it back to the moon.

VitaminPb 2025-12-16 19:48

Huh. I don’t remember redwood or ultra-cheap micro homes from Musk. He spews so much I must have missed them.

window-sil 2025-12-16 19:50

Always 2 years away 😂

lump77777 2025-12-16 19:52

And he was only a few years late, and it launched at more than 2x its originally promised cost. For Elon, that’s one his better results.

PowerFarta 2025-12-16 19:52

Before or after we go to Mars?

Common-Ad6470 2025-12-16 19:52

Musk really needs to change his ketamine dealer…👌

jizzyjugsjohnson 2025-12-16 19:55

Elon Musk Talks Out of His Arse Again. More at 11

Derelicticu 2025-12-16 19:56

Lol I'm still driving a 2006 Pontiac Vibe with the pain peeling on the hood. I have doubts these are going to affect anyone but the ultra wealthy.

alexdgrate 2025-12-16 19:56

He speaks, I ignore.

FlexFanatic 2025-12-16 19:59

Why does the news give these Tech Bros predictions more weight that if Ms Cleo said the same thing? This is the same dude that launched the Cybertruck and said we'd have flying cars in a few weeks.

YardOptimal9329 2025-12-16 20:00

Can we stop repeating his projections? When had he been correct?

StampyScouse 2025-12-16 20:00

Elon musk predicted Tesla would release it's new roadster in 2020. It's now 2025 and not a word has been said about it since except that it ***should*** be coming 2026. Elon Musk predicted buying Twitter would reduce the amount of bots on the platform and increase free speech. It's actually done neither. I wouldn't trust his predictions.

FrankLangellasBalls 2025-12-16 20:06

No, non humanoid robots are better at that also.

Veutifuljoe_0 2025-12-16 20:07

Roomba’s aren’t designed to be human like either, and likely never will be

michelevit2 2025-12-16 20:07

Weren't we supposed to go to Mars by now?

LeadingAd6025 2025-12-16 20:09

I am not a tesla short but would consider (read) this as 10 to 20 years for robot cars; 40 to 50 years for people robot

of_course_you_are 2025-12-16 20:09

His will never ever work

conundri 2025-12-16 20:10

Hey now, my car is full and I'm driving it myself! I really should unload the groceries though.

Ok_Coyote9326 2025-12-16 20:10

I predict Elon Musk will overdose on ketamine within the next 5 years.

of_course_you_are 2025-12-16 20:10

He is addicted to ketamine and we see the effects of that abuse

Lonely_Refuse4988 2025-12-16 20:12

The great con man pontificates! He’s been ushering in miracles every year for the last 10 years! 🤣😂🤷‍♂️

ionizing_chicanery 2025-12-16 20:14

Has Elon ever accurately predicted anything?

DammatBeevis666 2025-12-16 20:14

And soon, my car will drive me to work without me having to do anything. Since 2019 it’s “soon.”

UncleDaddy_00 2025-12-16 20:15

These are all solutions in search of problems. On the autonomous driving portion, there is no desire for robot cars that just wander around on their own and pick people up and drive them around. At least for the majority of the population. What 'robotaxis' will do is just what the name implies. They will replaced taxis, or 'ride-share' as it is now called. I have two cars in my driveway, I may have less car in the driveway if there is a reliable option for rides, so perhaps there is a change there, but there is zero chance that most people will give up their own vehicle to rely on something that is not just sitting and waiting for them. If I look out my window I can see 8 homes without moving my head around, including mine each of those homes have at least one car. Everyone leaves home to go to work around the same time, so will there be a line up of robot cars just waiting on every street to take everyone to work in the morning and bring them home later? Where will this army of cars go after? I know there is a need to rethink transportation, but I don't believe that autonomous cars are the panacea that the grifters make it out to be. I'd be pleased as punch if my own car was able to self drive, but I need it to be with me all of the time. I do NOT want to have to sit on the road and wait for my robot car to arrive. Humanoid robots? For what? What exactly will these robots do that other robots don't already do? I have a robot that makes my coffee, it is perfectly shaped to do that. I have a robot that washes my dishes, it is perfectly designed to do that. I have one that washes my clothes and another that dries them, one that vaccums and mops my floors. Why in the hell would I want a human shaped robot anywhere in my life?

TheMCM80 2025-12-16 20:20

I’d say that too if I told my investors I was going to be the one supplying all of those. This man should be treated like the doomsday prophet cult leaders who predict the end of the world every two years. We mock those people for their insane predictions and total belief in them… yet we invest billions into a guy who does the same thing. FSD has been one year away for so many years now, but sure, I’m positive he’s right this time /s.

Hilux_Avet_Hobie 2025-12-16 20:20

Well even IF that happens, it won’t involve Tesla anyway.

dsdvbguutres 2025-12-16 20:20

FSD 6 years ago

band-of-horses 2025-12-16 20:25

You're just daring the tesla bros to show up and tell you how they use FSD to drive 300 miles through very complex environments every day without a single mistake, aren't you...

Impossible_Head8683 2025-12-16 20:25

He's Nostradamus of our time.

No_Communication5538 2025-12-16 20:26

The whole robot taxi, can Tesla do it? stuff is so irrelevant. China has a much more dynamic autonomous vehicle economy - they a significantly ahead of US in developing future vehicles. Hiding behind trade barriers is always a route obsolescence.

Dry-Interaction-1246 2025-12-16 20:28

He needs reshaping.

DisplacerBeastMode 2025-12-16 20:30

No. I don't think a single technology prediction that he's had has come true. Not one.

Ohuigin 2025-12-16 20:31

Literally the technofascist version of Trump. Just two more weeks, ya’ll…two more weeks.

FindusSomKatten 2025-12-16 20:33

Lol, lmao even.

youcantkillanidea 2025-12-16 20:34

🥁 🤡

laserwaffles 2025-12-16 20:36

Tesla is so far from any workable products they promise. The whole company is a master class and over promise and under deliver. How many years has the robo taxi been almost done and only need a couple more months? Never mind all the optimist robots are just remote puppets

satansxlittlexhelper 2025-12-16 20:38

The Nostradamus mom says you already have at home.

HarryMudd-LFHL 2025-12-16 20:40

Maybe Musk is right. But you absolutely cannot rely on his statements. I'd just ignore every prediction, promise, announcement, etc. that he makes.

pharsee 2025-12-16 20:40

Show us EXACTLY HOW you will solve the energy/battery problem. Until you can show us please vacate all mass media.

HeWillComeInsideUs 2025-12-16 20:41

His words mean shit. Guy lost all aura

NoIncrease299 2025-12-16 20:42

If only this fucking asshole would have been right about being on Mars a decade ago.

ATXoxoxo 2025-12-16 20:44

Okay Elon..... Sure they will!

MouseShadow2ndMoon 2025-12-16 20:45

Free beer tomorrow signs was how he started his empire.

meshreplacer 2025-12-16 20:47

Tesla up on news Robotaxis on all 50 states and FSD complete and customers will be able to sleep while the cars work for them as taxis. By march 1/2026

CHRISTEN-METAL 2025-12-16 20:48

As soon as he gets back from Mars?😂

0o0o0o0o0o0z 2025-12-16 20:51

> He's never wrong with his predictions. Naw, just about 2+ decades early on them...

Joshua-- 2025-12-16 20:57

As a fan of technology and a person with an ever curious mind, I have watched a few of the latest FSD videos and they’re damn good. But going from NY to CA without intervention… fuck no.

dtyamada 2025-12-16 20:58

But a robot robotaxi COULD be different from a regular robotaxi. It's driven by an actual robot not invisible magic like a robotaxi!

JH_111 2025-12-16 20:59

Just wait until you remember Hyperloop!

[deleted] 2025-12-16 21:00

He also said my self driving would take me across country in 2018. And he said he’d make my automatic wipers work properly. Don’t worry too much about anything Elmo says. It’s always a grift.

deadborn666 2025-12-16 21:01

I also predict the young Salma Hayek to ask me out for dinner within 5 months at max.

ai-ate-my-homework 2025-12-16 21:01

Fastest 25mph the world has ever seen

ai-ate-my-homework 2025-12-16 21:03

Wait, are you telling me that Elon lied to me again?! 😭

ai-ate-my-homework 2025-12-16 21:04

Just gotta get in the hyper loop! Oh, wait...

Ormyr 2025-12-16 21:06

So 2050-ish then?

22Yohan 2025-12-16 21:07

From the guy who was wrong about . . . everything.

Snoo68594 2025-12-16 21:10

Can we get him a new crystal ball?

earthman34 2025-12-16 21:15

Coming from the guy who landed on Mars in 2022.

Significant-Branch22 2025-12-16 21:16

He’s been predicting fully automated cars within 2 years for more than a decade now

michalzxc 2025-12-16 21:20

But there are a lot of tools designed for humans, which makes humanoid robots very economically efficient

Mr_frosty_360 2025-12-16 21:20

Crazy! And I hear that the Tesla Cybertruck will have 500 mile range and even crazier, we’ll land on the moon in 2022! What a time to be alive.

Lopsided_Parfait7127 2025-12-16 21:20

We should trust him After all we got full self driving years ago when he said we would

Lopsided_Parfait7127 2025-12-16 21:21

He needs exposure. Can you not how pasty his skin is?

TheJiggie 2025-12-16 21:24

Yeah, because his track record has been nothing but stellar at predicting things… /s

YeahPlayaaaaa 2025-12-16 21:28

Next year next year next year next year next year

Background_Pen_2415 2025-12-16 21:33

It sucks that regular people as well as governments fall for this man’s high-as-a-kite ramblings. SpaceX rockets, Hyperloop, tunnels, self-driving cars, robots? It’s like a stream of consciousness but people keep throwing money at it.

Crazy-Cook2035 2025-12-16 21:33

Number 1 there is NO REALISTIC claim of when self driving cars are going to work in winter conditions We are 5-6 years out alone. And that is from a tesla memo

Belgarablue 2025-12-16 21:35

Felonious Husk also has a Mars Colony now, right?

Krieg 2025-12-16 21:45

End of the year

Ignisami 2025-12-16 21:45

Pretty sure redwood was supposed to be the "$25 000 Tesla"

RocketLabBeatsSpaceX 2025-12-16 21:47

lol

IStillOweMoney 2025-12-16 21:48

Fuck Elon Musk. He fucking sucks.

johnny_51N5 2025-12-16 21:49

Also within. So could be 2055-2060 or just 2567-2772

T1Pimp 2025-12-16 21:50

And cyber truck was the future. Lol

OhioThunder 2025-12-16 21:55

Humanoid robots are the biggest gimmick since collaborative robots. Hard pass, I work in industrial automation. It makes no sense

SkahtiKaarz 2025-12-16 22:02

I wish he would stop talking.

chimpomatic5000 2025-12-16 22:03

Oh yeah? How's your hyperloop coming along? Or self driving cars? I am less and less interested in anything a tech bro has to say. Especially the biggest tech bro and K hole on earth

F0urElem3ntZ 2025-12-16 22:05

Tell that to my coworker’s Tesla that recently wrecked itself.

sognenis 2025-12-16 22:19

“Predicts” aka “lies”. Stop promoting his shit.

Fiveofthem 2025-12-16 22:23

Cool, so in truthful timelines 20 years or more.

cinred 2025-12-16 22:24

So is that before or after we get Tesla Full self driving cars?

Scoutmaster-Jedi 2025-12-16 22:29

Anyone who believes him is an idiot. Elon making such a pronouncement gives me strong confidence it will not happen in that timeframe.

[deleted] 2025-12-16 22:31

He's lying and he should be held accountable. This is just him manipulating the share price.

ColdPack6096 2025-12-16 22:32

Can he just fuck off already, and go to Mars and never return?

jailtheorange1 2025-12-16 22:38

I don’t know who’s the biggest bullshitter Donald Trump or Elon Musk

Logical_Historian882 2025-12-16 22:38

And the hyper loop will revolutionise transport!

pandershrek 2025-12-16 22:40

I would have predicted people would pull their heads out of their asses and punish liars but we have a felon as a President so sure, hopefully they'll shit soft serve ice cream for me as well.

S33Blue 2025-12-16 22:44

In other words...they will have no effect

tomdurk 2025-12-16 22:48

I think this post is a decade old

Eastern_Guess8854 2025-12-16 22:50

So it’s at least 15 years away if that

ArtODealio 2025-12-16 22:57

Or two weeks.

SayTheLineBart 2025-12-16 22:58

Why wouldn’t it? Driving the interstate isn’t difficult for FSD

unpaid-astroturfer 2025-12-16 22:59

I love that it has its own wikipedia page haha

crosstherubicon 2025-12-16 23:00

Where’s the sports car you promised for 2023 going to be produced?

unpaid-astroturfer 2025-12-16 23:01

"From our standpoint, if you fast forward a year, maybe a year and three months, but next year for sure, we'll have over a million robotaxis on the road." — April 2019

RanchHandlher 2025-12-16 23:03

No, not even 26. He said they would unveil it April 1st of 26. (April fools).

FlagFootballSaint 2025-12-16 23:05

Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

Desperate_Elk_7369 2025-12-16 23:10

Robotaxis will be arriving by the end of 2020, guaranteed, you can take that to the bank

Silver_Run_2025 2025-12-16 23:19

I'm still waiting for flying cars.

PossibleCash6092 2025-12-16 23:26

By the time you get there you won’t exist because explosions

spaham 2025-12-16 23:31

Tell me who’s gonna pay for things once unemployed

Cold-Bug-4873 2025-12-16 23:42

Sure, buddy.

beyerch 2025-12-16 23:45

"Robot cars"? Is that different than FSD? Lol.

zante2033 2025-12-16 23:51

I predict he'll be in front of congress within 5 years.

RedRipe 2025-12-17 00:08

Yup, “LiDAR will never be widely adopted” genius 🙄 Actual quote from 2019 "They're all going to dump LIDAR; that's my prediction. I should point out that I don't actually super hate LIDAR as much as it may sound. But at SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon uses LIDAR to navigate to the space station and dock. Not only that, Space developed its own LIDAR from scratch to do that, and I spearheaded that effort personally. Because in that scenario, LIDAR makes sense. In cars, it's freaking stupid. Once you solve Vision, it's worthless."

GarysCrispLettuce 2025-12-17 00:12

Prediction: nobody actually wants a humanoid robot, and specialist robotic-type machines limited to specific jobs will still be used in manufacturing in 50 years time.

Xiaopeng8877788 2025-12-17 00:20

Here’s some special K. Trust me bro…

Lacrewpandora 2025-12-17 00:21

ABP...Always Be Pumping.

FartKnoxdotcom 2025-12-17 00:32

He is a fucking idiot.

Pineapplepizzaracoon 2025-12-17 00:39

Has anyone asked if this is actually a reality we want to

aleamas 2025-12-17 00:40

The surest way to know something won't happen is if Elon claims it will.

Jk8fan 2025-12-17 00:42

Yea, we are supposed to have men on Mars in 2026, according to Elon about a decade or so ago.

MF48 2025-12-17 00:47

Real world translation: 15 years and 10 to 12 years using the “Musk translation tool”

hypercomms2001 2025-12-17 00:47

I will make a prediction, that Elon Musk will go to prison.

WeirdPrimary1126 2025-12-17 01:03

Who is going to be able to afford to buy their services when you’re replacing all the jobs and letting people starve taking away their food stamps?

Advanced-Prototype 2025-12-17 01:09

This constant quoting of Musk reminds me of how Michael Burry is often quoted, regardless of being right only 1 time in 100 predictions.

GlowingGreenie 2025-12-17 01:09

Hey it already has shaped Country's GDPs! By shoveling good money after bad in an effort to finally rid himself having to see the poors who currently have to clean up after him he's shaping GDPs. The best part is that he'll probably roll out some 'humanoid' robot which requires human intervention, call it done, and be perfectly okay with whole cubical farms of workers backstopping his company's janky-ass "AI", so long as it means his customers' houses only have his privacy-invading robots. Meanwhile, can FSD avoid debris on the highway? Tesla specifically itself [says no](https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-E5FF5E84-6AAC-43E6-B7ED-EC1E9AEB17B7.html#:~:text=high%2Dspeed%20roads.-,Debris%20in%20the%20road.,-Construction%20zones.), despite what a few fanboys think their cars are doing. How are they going to reduce that list of potential interventions to zero so I could be sound asleep in a car in a year or two when they haven't managed it in the past decade?

TurdBurgler_69 2025-12-17 01:10

And Elon will continue to be a Nazi with a mutilated penus.

BringBackUsenet 2025-12-17 01:27

He predicts a lot of things but so far even the blind squirrel is doing better than he is.

DhOnky730 2025-12-17 01:42

I’m still willing to bet that they won’t have sold a single Optimus robot in 5 years.

Ashamed-Agency-817 2025-12-17 01:44

Must has never made an accurate prediction.. he is actually the worst CEO ever to predict anything.

nancy_necrosis 2025-12-17 01:55

I have no doubt that robotics are the way of the future. Take drones, for example. They've completely changed warfare. There are also "dark" factories in which robots do all the work, which is why there is no need for lights. I do doubt that the robots of the future will be humanoid, and I highly doubt that any useful robots will be built by Elon Musk.

Cold_Neighborhood_98 2025-12-17 01:58

Just not his

Moof_the_cyclist 2025-12-17 02:09

Like a broken clock he is right occasionally, but you should not take what he says at face value.

UnicornGangstar 2025-12-17 02:41

I prefer Miss Cleo with his track record.

Remarkable_Cat5946 2025-12-17 02:44

How else is he going to make them look like nazis?

techbunnyboy 2025-12-17 02:59

Just 1 or 2. Believe him

neelabhkhatri 2025-12-17 03:09

10 years since the Roadster bs, yet to see an actual car. What a joke.

Poozipper 2025-12-17 03:17

The same dude pushed for autonomous driving 10 years ago and has had multiple lawsuits about it. Musk is a shit person and bullies his way through reality.

onethirtyseven_ 2025-12-17 03:33

Has this dude ever correctly predicted anything at all

shanethedrain1 2025-12-17 03:39

Hold on. Just a day or two ago, he was saying that Western Civilization was doomed due to "muh immigrants", now he's saying that we'll have miracle AI/robot technology soon?

SocialJusticeAndroid 2025-12-17 03:54

Ok elmo.🤡 All those people not buying Tesla cars will be lining up to buy terrible, useless Tesla robots. Oh, BTW elmo, how’s your nauseating Tesla diner doing and what about your fire-trap cybertruck?

Guy_Smylee 2025-12-17 04:05

He says a lot of stuff.

Ok-Bill3318 2025-12-17 04:17

FSD next year

AnonymousCoward79 2025-12-17 04:26

Lol yeah right

AnonymousCoward79 2025-12-17 04:34

And the drive on water DLC

mrdilldozer 2025-12-17 05:20

He released something that is not what he advertised and his supporters eat it up as a promise met. The Cybertruck is a prime example of it. That is not what anyone preordered. It's not just price being more than doubled. He promised 500 miles of range and it gets about half of that (the website says 300 but that's not what consumer testing showed.) He also promised it could float like a boat and would have 4 separate motors in the wheels so it could turn 360 degrees.

BuzzBuzzington3 2025-12-17 05:28

I really hope this dipshit finds himself in a deep K hole that he cant get out of

_Captain_Amazing_ 2025-12-17 05:48

And in related news that will never happen, the Moon is made of cheese and I'm the King of Spain.

TheInternetsLOL 2025-12-17 05:49

Hmm… already 5 years behind with Robotaxi. But coming soon again.

tangouniform2020 2025-12-17 06:09

As Susie has commented, he’s probably microdosing

niogyn 2025-12-17 06:11

“Idiot predicts things with almost a 100% track record of being inaccurate. Market calls it a prediction.” Do I have this right?

No_Discipline_7380 2025-12-17 06:29

Even if perfectly driving robot cars magically appear overnight, how the hell would that significantly impact a country's GDP? Aside from ride-sharing, taxis and shipping what would they seriously impact? Those things are not GDP drivers by any stretch of the imagination...

never_nick 2025-12-17 06:49

How about he makes his first functional one and we project the likelihood of his prediction on that.

UpbeatWishbone9825 2025-12-17 06:50

Yeah, but Musk talks shit, so...

szornyu 2025-12-17 08:26

Let's not give much credit to this drog addict techno-bro. He's the Saruman of our time. I wonder, who Sauron might be... 😁

[deleted] 2025-12-17 08:26

In 1-2... Next year... Or next next year. 😂. Doing so for 10 years by now! And just got another slap for false advertising (after the one from Germany in 2020)! Jesus.

snuepe 2025-12-17 08:43

# SpaceX's 1st crewed Mars mission could launch as early as 2024, Elon Musk says -2020

richardbaxter 2025-12-17 09:11

Tesla shares are the new altcoin

TheDogsPaw 2025-12-17 09:17

Matrix when

marmaviscount 2025-12-17 09:33

When he started building giga factory he moved to a tiny home and was going to be revolutionizing the housing market within a few years. And yeah redwood was name of the super cheap EV

ianishomer 2025-12-17 10:06

Yeah, yeah Elon, trying to keep the share price up again, or over done it on the Ketamine, which is it today?

Available_Ad9766 2025-12-17 10:32

I fail to see what is the fuss about humanoid robots. Purpose built robots do the work they’re designed for more efficiently. If you’re building a humanoid robot, it must mean that you are intending to replace the work done by a human being — not merely to augment the capacity of human workers. It’s utter BS when he says that work is optional for human beings. It’s not like these billionaires are so generous that they’re building these robots for the benefit of mankind. I fear that more likely, it should mean that if you’re not rich and well off, you will have no way of earning your keep and your labour will be replaced by humanoid robots. The utopia for billionaires is a world filled with robots doing their bidding and not needing healthcare and other things that billlionaires feel would be a waste of their money.

Withnail2019 2025-12-17 11:02

So-called AI is worthless,

45_regard_47 2025-12-17 11:33

The same countries where sales of teSSler swasticars have dropped significantly?  Who is going to be able to afford a teSSler Nazzibot and out of that group who will buy a teSSler Nazzibot and it's not like there's better competition that doesn't fall over when the operator removes their headset

EczachlyLB 2025-12-17 11:45

Stupid … click bait. Cuz that shit ain’t gonna happen…. Elon = 🤡

Careless_Weekend_470 2025-12-17 12:07

I hoping it will become a reality since a robot car can’t be any worse then humans driving cars.

PeterParker001A 2025-12-17 13:35

Elon found his new "Hype" product for the next 10 years to pump the stock.

cryptoETH_jazz 2025-12-17 14:09

In 2065!! 🤣🤣👊🏼 catch 22

Smart-Effective7533 2025-12-17 14:50

So is whole schtick now, take drugs and make stupid predictions and we treat him like he’s an oracle?

DisplacerBeastMode 2025-12-17 16:23

His fans must be some of the most gullible people on the planet

Commercial_Tough160 2025-12-17 16:35

For some reason I don’t believe him.

LVegasGuy 2025-12-17 17:47

Multiply any timeframe Elon gives by at least 10.

Alien_Way 2025-12-17 18:20

As long as "poo shaped" is the shape they expect, then they'll love the investment.

dpcthpost 2025-12-17 18:54

I drive an Tesla with FSD. Can’t see gates, runs red lights. I don’t trust it. Except on interstates with no confusing interchanges

elAhmo 2025-12-17 18:56

Big if true

Joshua-- 2025-12-17 19:08

Personally, I think that’s what we should only be using it for. Tesla does great highway steering and land holding. This relatively new obsession with point to point navigation is absurd. Some of these folks can’t live without FSD driving them to the grocery store now.

marmaviscount 2025-12-17 19:22

Lol ok, whatever you say. You should get that tattoo, I'm sure it won't age badly.

Shinagami091 2025-12-17 19:52

His robot isn’t anywhere near ready for that.

WeUsedToBeACountry 2025-12-17 20:37

Evidence? Vibes

Part_Tricky 2025-12-17 22:20

Fuck this moron, he's trying to promote sinking Tesla stock as he's promoting to build Robots within Tesla. He is struggling to sell Tesla cars, Tesla Robotaxi is failing miserably and he want us to believe he can build Humanoid.

EarthConservation 2025-12-17 22:50

"We have a shot of being in production for version one of Optimus hopefully next year" \- Musk (April 2022 during the opening of Tesla's Austin factory) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Of course, when he says "in production" he may have just meant tiny scale production of early prototypes, which is a nothingburger that gives no real sense of when Tesla's engineers are realistically hoping to have this product available, if they have any clue at all, or whether it's even possible, given that it's not like they have a proven working product yet... You know what always cracked me up about autonomous humanoid robots. A Boston Dynamics Spot robot starts at like $75k just for the core robot. A viable humanoid AI driven robot that can travers all of the same terrain as a human, would cost more than that. Yet Musk claims these robots will be in every home within a handful of years, doing all of the cleaning for the homeowners, as if every household would be able to afford one Do y'all know how many times you can have a cleaner come by and your house for $75k... At $50 an hour (You can find maid service for $25 - $75 an hour), you could get 1500 hours of maid service. With cleanings taking up to 2-4 hours, or let's say 3 hours on average, you could have a maid service come by 500 times. If you have them coming every two weeks, then $75k could pay for that maid service for 19 years. \_\_\_\_\_\_ Tesla's robot timelines are no different than when Musk claimed in 2017 that they were "making it now" in regards to the new Roadster, and that if you ordered it in 2017 and put down a hefty $50k-$250k deposit, you'd get yours in 2020. He used the Roadster to lure in fanatical fanboys to work as unpaid interns to help sell his model 3s by promising free roadsters as rewards (paychecks) to people with 50 referral sales (Of course, those recipients would have to pay about a 24% income tax on that reward, which would be around $60k) Of course, as we now know, whatever Musk showed off that day in 2017 was nothing more than a quickly pieced together prototype using parts supply they already had, stuffed with batteries and likely 4 motors, with all other weight stripped out of the vehicle to help it accelerate fast. Over 8 years later, there's no realistic estimate for when this vehicle will be produced or delivered. All of the fanatical investors that pumped the sale of model 3s 8 years ago and earned their $200k-$250k income (in 2017 dollars) are still left waiting for their paycheck from their dead beat employer, Tesla. No surprise, Tesla/Musk often get called out for not paying their contractors.

PizzaCatTacoUno 2025-12-17 23:47

I predict, that Elon predicts robo self driving cars will be available 1 to 2 years from now every year for the next couple of years

Calm_Historian9729 2025-12-18 02:48

Dude we are still waiting for robo taxis and FSD on all Tesla's come on stop smoking weed man its affecting your brain.

JC1949 2025-12-18 02:54

Just ordered to stop lying about "autopilot" in California

denmur383 2025-12-18 03:21

Tarot cards again?

chrispark70 2025-12-18 05:42

Yeah, the roadster will ship next year.. We'll be on the moon in 2023. etc etc etc.

Squawk_7777 2025-12-18 06:23

Cool! Have you fixed "phantom' braking yet? Or the wipes? They still activate every time I pass through that one tunnel.

Withnail2019 2025-12-18 09:41

Have fun producing AI slop until the servers get shut down.

HenryUTA 2025-12-18 10:51

Yeah and we’ll be launching 4 Starships per day!

Akira282 2025-12-18 12:23

Waymo is way ahead of you buddy

Glad_Stay4056 2025-12-18 13:10

And we colonized mars 4 years ago.

Level_Investigator_1 2025-12-18 15:40

But no one will buy your cars or robots… cause you specifically suck ass and create unsafe/bad products while others do it right.

isdbull 2025-12-18 16:45

Wen Roadster?

ThE_LAN_B4_TimE 2025-12-18 17:18

Let me guess suddenly people who cant afford basic things in life will be rushing to get loans to buy their 10k humanoid robots???

BringbacktheFocusRS 2025-12-18 18:14

I was laughing my ass off when he said all Teslas made in 2018 and beyond would be hardware compatible with FSD.

Outside_Ice3252 2025-12-18 18:24

3-5 7-10 Tesla will be one of many companies doing both

HappyBlowLucky 2025-12-18 18:28

And when was Starship supposed to be orbital?

[deleted] 2025-12-18 21:02

And he was going to sell 500,000 cyber trucks a day!

fungi_at_parties 2025-12-18 21:05

Fuck off Elon, you’ll never get to Mars.

VirtualPercentage737 2025-12-18 23:05

I got a new Tesla and use it for my 10 mile commute. There are 2 places I turn it off on the way to work because the map is wrong. But it does rural roads, rotaries, and downtowns just fine. It stopped for a school bus this AM. It actually stopped at a construction site and waited until the cop waved us through.

VirtualPercentage737 2025-12-18 23:06

How old is yours? Mine slammed on the breaks on a backroad the other night. I was like, what the heck-- and then noticed there was a person in all black in the middle of the road. Saved someones life.

VirtualPercentage737 2025-12-18 23:10

For factories, sure. But for things like cleaning my house, construction, and generally doing work in human spaces, the human figure fits in well.

worker_bee_drone 2025-12-19 01:22

Robot cars sound a lot like taxis without drivers. Let's say that somehow there were free taxis to take us anywhere we wanted to go. Like a new cooler public transportation. Even in that impossible scenario, this doesn't seem like it would move the GDP needle much in any country. What am I missing? You still have to sit in the car to get somewhere. How does this help much?

Robo-X 2025-12-19 02:33

He was claiming this until very recently when he admitted that complete FSD would require new hardware even newer than HW4.

[deleted] 2025-12-19 04:31

Did he say this from Mars? Cos he should be on Mars by now. Or in a flying car.

DropoutDreamer 2025-12-19 05:05

Tesla is an appreciating asset

hotgrease 2025-12-19 07:43

He’s wearing sunglasses indoors. That’s all you need to know

WeArePandey 2025-12-19 14:22

He says a lot of stupid shit

Brokenspokes68 2025-12-19 14:48

He spearheaded lidar himself! Such genius!

ArArmytrainingsir 2025-12-19 16:18

Idiotic

Mobile_Ad_3534 2025-12-19 17:32

Man i wish i was rich enough to get this high.

PeachScary413 2025-12-19 21:10

Next year bro 👈😎👈

MONGED4LIFE 2025-12-19 22:58

He also said we'd be on mars by now

Simple_Weather7896 2025-12-20 03:11

Keep Up the K!

Kr155 2025-12-20 03:17

Wernt we going to have robontaxis in like 2017?

JIMBETHYNAME 2025-12-20 04:42

SHUT UP, JACKASS!

Speeder172 2025-12-20 10:36

Damn, he is back on track saying some bullshit for his morons shareholders, of course they will buy what he says.

RogueSoldier10012 2025-12-20 12:35

Just like full self driving cars in 2016 and humans on Mars in 2018, this guy’s predictions are always accurate.

[deleted] 2025-12-20 17:47

‘Elon makes public statement that makes him money’ needs to start being the headlines attached to anything he says

YeahMan1001 2025-12-20 21:07

“Some of these folks” are all online and if you scroll through their post history, it’s them commenting on $TSLA stock with a screenshot of today’s chart. I seriously have not heard one person (and I know several colleagues who have Teslas) say the words “FSD”. What I think is ironic is Elon himself said “70% of Tesla drivers have tried FSD”, well then if it’s so great, why aren’t they signing up?

StoneyardBurner 2025-12-20 22:52

He is a moron.

Stunning_Month_5270 2025-12-20 23:38

Honestly pathetic finding out the richest men on earth turn are just basic drug addicts Life at that level, able to do anything, and the best they can do is the same drugs as a guy living out of his van

tazzietiger66 2025-12-21 00:38

Musk makes lots of predictions that never happen .

ackillesBAC 2025-12-21 03:43

Every time someone reads that it resets

PopularRain6150 2025-12-21 22:51

Plot twist : he is a humanoid robot!

Logical-Sun001 2025-12-22 05:23

And somehow he is “the richest man in the world”? This makes no sense to me. He’s literally a con man selling the illusion of the future and making promises that don’t check out scientifically. Most of his asinine ideas turned out to be flops or never worked out. And it’s coming next year, so the stock price goes up. Sales numbers drop, but pivoting to humanoid robots, so the stock price goes up and then up again.

Ya-Not-Happening 2025-12-23 21:06

fElon predicts - means you can take to the bank that it will not happen

dpcthpost 2025-12-30 14:59

6 years. HW3

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