alt Hacker News> There’s no way this will ever directly make back the salaries and time spent on it so far.
It does if it keeps their valuation in the trillions.
> There’s no way this will ever directly make back the salaries and time spent on it so far.
It does if it keeps their valuation in the trillions.
I think 'directly' is doing a lot of work in OP's comment. I agree, this is never going to make sales that pay for the engineering effort involved in this machine, but keeping Tesla in the news, having this amazing POC, and the lessons learned that might apply to other parts of Musk's enterprises (SpaceX particularly) are not worth zero.
Plus, whatever you think of Musk, this is really fucking cool.