{"id":18289,"date":"2018-11-02T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/in-recode-qa-elon-musk-talks-up-blade-runner-truck-space-force-and-jeff-bezos\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:30:31","slug":"in-recode-qa-elon-musk-talks-up-blade-runner-truck-space-force-and-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/in-recode-qa-elon-musk-talks-up-blade-runner-truck-space-force-and-jeff-bezos\/","title":{"rendered":"In Recode Q&#038;A, Elon Musk talks up \u2018Blade Runner\u2019 truck, Space Force and Jeff Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_278144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278144\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-278144\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160927-musk-mars-630x430.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk in Guadalajara\" width=\"630\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160927-musk-mars-630x430.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160927-musk-mars-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160927-musk-mars-1240x846.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160927-musk-mars.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-278144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elon Musk speaks at a space conference in 2016. (SpaceX Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is really psyched about the electric pickup truck he\u2019s got on the drawing board&nbsp;\u2014 and he\u2019s also cool with the Space Force and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space effort.<\/p>\n<p>Those are just a few of the talking points that emerged when he sat down for an 80-minute Q&amp;A on Halloween, after months of cajoling from Recode alpha-geek Kara Swisher.<\/p>\n<p>The interview and the full transcript are online at Recode, so there\u2019s no need to go into a lot of detail here. But here are five key quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin:<\/strong> \u201cI think it\u2019s great that Jeff is spending lots of money on space. And they are a competitor, but it\u2019s good that he\u2019s spending money on \u2026 that he\u2019s spending a lot of money on developing rockets. I think it will encounter some challenges getting to orbit, it\u2019s remarkably difficult getting to orbit. But he has the resources to overcome those difficulties.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Space Force:<\/strong> \u201cThis may be a little controversial, but I actually like the idea. I think it\u2019s cool. You know, like, when the Air Force was formed, there was a lot of like pooh-poohing, and like, \u2018Oh, how silly to have an Air Force!\u2019 You know, because the aircraft in World War II were managed by the Army. \u2026 It\u2019s basically defense in space. And then I think also it could be pretty helpful for maybe expanding our civilization \u2026 You know, expanding things beyond Earth.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mission to Mars in 2024:<\/strong> \u201cWe\u2019re still aiming for 2024. \u2026&nbsp;I\u2019m not sure if there\u2019ll be people onboard or not.&nbsp;But there is a Mars rendezvous opportunity, \u2019cause you can only do a launch to Mars roughly every two years. So around the 2024 timeframe, there\u2019s a rendezvous opportunity for Mars, which hopefully we can catch. \u2026 Hopefully, there are people on board. But I think there\u2019s a pretty good chance of at least having an unmanned craft go to Mars.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tesla pickup truck:<\/strong> \u201cI can\u2019t talk about the details, but it\u2019s gonna be like a really futuristic like cyberpunk, \u2018Blade Runner\u2019 pickup truck. \u2026 If there\u2019s only a small number of people that like that truck, I guess we\u2019ll make a more conventional truck in the future. But it\u2019s the thing that I am personally most fired up about. It\u2019s gonna have a lot of titanium.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elon Musk\u2019s annus horribilis:<\/strong> \u201cThis year felt like five years of aging, frankly. The worst year of my entire career. Insanely painful. \u2026 It\u2019s been because of the Model 3 production ramp. Myself and others at Tesla, we had to go in and fix the mistakes in the Model 3 production system, and there were a lot of them. \u2026&nbsp;I think at Tesla we\u2019re doing pretty well right now. Tesla\u2019s not staring death in the face. We\u2019re in, I think, a pretty good position.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=b0yle&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1058337524408565760&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com%2F2018%2Frecode-qa-elon-musk-talks-blade-runner-truck-space-force-jeff-bezos%2F&amp;sessionId=082a3718f4d2e759828ddf5fd4c29e359eed39fd&amp;siteScreenName=geekwire&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1058337524408565760\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782802238863481717=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Recode Daily: Kara Swisher interviews Elon Musk https:\/\/t.co\/5cBr6BQgRV pic.twitter.com\/IgVD3F5iXk<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Recode (@Recode) November 2, 2018<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk speaks at a space conference in 2016. (SpaceX Photo) Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is really psyched about the electric pickup truck he\u2019s got on the drawing board&nbsp;\u2014 and he\u2019s also cool with the Space Force and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space effort. 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