Why all the Musk haters? He is doing all the things nobody else could do, or enough of it to get the ball rolling in the right direction. Getting the human race to try expanding to more planets (increasing our odds of racial survival) - NASA was about to be legislated out of existence by budget cuts, until Musk showed that a Mars colony could be feasible. Now NASA is talking about Mars missions, along with several other companies in the private sector.
GM, the largest corporation in the world, was killing off their lame EV program, even amid loud protests from consumers, until Musk showed that electric vehicles are viable alternatives to gas guzzlers - now every auto maker has one or plans for several.
The Powerwall batteries and solar systems have the potential to reduce carbon emissions by a large factor, and diversify our outdated power infrastructure into private ownership, another win for humanity.
His tunneling company aims to show that traffic problems are solvable, when governments just keep building more roads, making it worse.
So why all the hate? Because you didn't think of it first, or do anything to solve these problems? Not that people care what I think, but I lose all respect for the opinions of those who disrespect Elon Musk, just because I respect people with the vision and drive to get things done and bring about positive change, instead of just getting rich off the same old status quo.
