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College Grads Create Fake Tesla Commercial That Elon Musk Loves
cartechboy (2660665) writes "Two University of Southern California grads were looking to start a digital content company so they decided to roll the dice and create a home-made (but incredibly professional looking) television commercial for Tesla — just to see if they could get some attention for it. Well, apparently, mission accomplished. R.J. Collins and James Khabushani took $1,500 and created a 60-second Tesla 'faux-mercial' dubbed 'Modern Spaceship' that is well, pretty good. Elon Musk noticed, tweeted it and has helped the thing go viral."
At least it is being manufactured in the USA man.
Surprised that in 2014 people still think that wealth has anything to do with hard work rather than innate talent, connections and lack of scruples.
(Son of multimillionaires and private school scholar here, so I'm not bitter - just saying it how it is.)
Cute commercial. The "warp" effect when he is inside the car is totally from Stargate/Early SG1 :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Public school product here, closing in on his first million. :)
Son of smart but dirt poor parents, went to public school & state university, no real connections but plenty of scruples, working my ass off for another 10-15 years and saving all I can. If/when I ever move to a warmer climate, I'd buy a Tesla with very few reservations.
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My answer: no.
This is an enjoyable commercial.
Question: why cannot the "professional" commercial makers do this sort of thing? Why are current car commercials always screaming at me?
It's not a fake commercial. It's a real commercial. They just made it without having been asked or paid.
Better known as 318230.
I think you stretch it with innate talent. Far more important are connections.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
We were coming back from dinner and it was on a trailer being towed by a white truck with Tesla stenciled on the side. It was a grey Model S with a roof rack.
Some lucky dog right in our neighborhood getting their delivery today. I bet they're excited.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Should have ended with "See your New Jersey Tesla dealer today!"
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
Doing something like this for free for a company is one of the best ways to get hired.
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I think you stretch it with innate talent. Far more important are connections.
Yeah, but when you get both working together, that's when the world changes.
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Of course if you have a big dick you don't need one.
I wonder if these guys really have no connection to Tesla in any way.
I just realized that the shared definition of a 'fake' commercial is that it was produced by someone not hired by the product manufacturer. It no longer means one that involves special effects, and hasn't for some time.
work on real ones as part of class but some HR people pass them over as it's only 2 years but you know more then the 4 year guys
Tried to read, and watch. Couldn't had a giant SUBSCRIBE over the page. Don't do sites like that, add them to ad block, and never go back. Someday web sites will learn.
It is all about being frugal. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it left.
And yet, Musk is a multi-billionaire and started out VERY middle class, with no connections or money supporting him.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Nice job kiddies! This will prepare for your job sucking corporate cock for no money! Enjoy the next 60 years of your life, suckers!
Americans love to celebrate their edge-cases.
Self-made millionaires who started out with few-if-any advantages and who got there through hard work do exist. Yet for every one of them there are millions of people in the exact same circumstances, who work just as hard or harder, and never become millionaires.
Connections aren't, strictly-speaking, a necessity for becoming very rich. But connections are a whole lot more advantageous than hard work.
Trunk monkeys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avOiTUcD4Y
Really? I'm making under 100K in Canada and I'm driving one... Why? I don't have to line up at Costco for gas... It just goes. Ya, so it's more expensive up front compared to other cars, but it just works. I don't have to look at the gas gauge and try to figure out my next route to the gas station. I simply bypass the people making a right turn right onto the highway. Oh ya, and the carpool lanes also allow green cars... instead of being stuck in traffic going to work, I have a pass to ride the pool lane by myself to get to where I have to.
BTW my other car is an 2013 Odyssey, half the price, to go camping... It does about 15l/km fully loaded. So I get about 300km/tank... But I get there.
I eval'ed a Kia Rio 5 vs the Ody. On an unloaded trip up north, I got 5.9 on the Kia Rio (dealership let me try it for a few days) and 6.1 on the Ody (213Km trip). (I do contract work). The Telsa just blows everything away. I got pulled over on highway 12 a couple of times, because the OPP wanted to check out the car. Let's just put it this way. From requested tests, the Tesla can blow away anything for a fraction of the cost of the really beefy cars.
It was a little corny and copycat, but it had a great ending.
Table-ized A.I.
I already opted out of this beta nonsense! Stop giving me this crap. The white space is not looking any better this time around either. Go away!
PS. Fuck beta.
There are plenty of reckless driving commercials with a small disclaimer at the bottom.
Did you just make that up because of some ideological dislike of regulation?
Instead of linking to some site linking to or embedding the ad from youtube,
here's the actual youtube link.
One book is all that I need.
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
First million cents?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
..and lack of scruples.
My ex-partner [he was sales, I was development] thought nothing of embezzling $50K+, and when caught "oh, it was the accountant" [whom he had personally hired].
But the cops couldn't be bothered with a squabble between partners, and he had 50K more than I did for the lawsuit...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
That's why most of America drives Chinese cars. Oh, wait...
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Any real car company would have 5 minutes of disclaimers:
Car Cannot Fly.
Do not allow children to drive car.
No children were harmed in the making of this commercial.
Caution, do not look directly at the sun.
etc
etc
etc
Just like the Chinese have been able to undercut the price on SpaceX rockets?
Not saying that just because *one* of Musk's companies managed to make something (in the USA!) for less than the Chinese or Russians could manage means that *all* of his companies will have the same fortune, but there's a lot of engineering knowledge that goes into making a Tesla. Yeah, cheap knockoffs - things that don't have anywhere near the specs - will probably appear, but they won't have much penetration outside of Asia.
Tesla doesn't just "make electric luxury cars". They make electric cars that have both more range *and* more efficiency than anything which can reasonably be called a competitor (i.e highway-safe enclosed multi-passenger vehicle). I don't have a clue how they manage to beat the others so handily on efficiency, but it's a critical factor for an electric car. A gasoline car with low fuel economy can just use a bigger tank, but that strategy breaks down with batteries much earlier.
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...
Its not even a toy - its a development platform for Musk for his car on Mars (when SpaceX gets him there).
At least it is being manufactured in the USA man.
A good number of automobiles are. (Either that or in (Ontario) Canada.)
Yesterday I had $ 999,999 to go, today I only have $999,998 to go; closing in on my first million!
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Just look at Bush Jr. and Romney; innate talent is highly overrated.
you can bet the 'Big 3' and their lame 'hybrids' are getting nervous
I think you stretch it with innate talent. Far more important are connections.
Yeah, but when you get both working together, that's when the world stays the same.
FTFY. I'm afraid you underestimate the conservative force of the well conntected :-(
The very first cars where for only the rich, until they were made commodities. Travelling on boats (or at all) used to be only for the rich, until it was made more available with steam ships. Travelling on airplanes used to be only for the rich, and now it's very affordable. Computers and smartphones used to be very expensive, and now everyone can have one for "$0" (plus a monthly contract). ABS brakes and air bags used to only protect people in the luxury cars, and now they're standard on most automobiles in the Western world.
Most things start off as being expensive and become commoditized over time. Musk et al have to start somwhere to build up the infrastructure to get reall mass production going and getting the incremental costs down (and recoup R&D).
Is the desire for instant gratification really that ingrained that you can't wait for a few years for things to work their way down?
The four-stroke Otto cycle was developed in 1861, the Diesel cycle in 1897: Ford's Model T was first build in 1908. The Tesla Roadster was first produced in 2008, and the Model S first delivered in 2012: perhaps give them to about 2018 before you start bitching?
I think the part with kid pretending he is in the spaceship is over the top and detracts from the message.
Go UCLA, and any team that plays USC. XD
Here's an interesting point of view about that : Does money make you mean? ..arguing by analogy via a rigged monopoly game, that the newly-rich person would attribute his success to his work (monopoly strategy), while at the same time failing to admit his success is mostly due to the rigged inequitable rules set at the beginning of the game.
I'm making under 100K in Canada and I'm driving one...
Your priorities are totally messed up. You've put too much of your income into something that is depreciating rapidly.
What makes you think it's efficient? The LEAF uses less energy per mile, largely by being a lighter car.
Aren't you one of the folks around here always saying something along the lines of "It's my money, I can spend it how I want"? Usual conservative hypocrisy....
True, but a Tesla is fun to drive. A Leaf, not so much.
At least it is being manufactured in the USA man.
A good number of automobiles are. (Either that or in (Ontario) Canada.)
When did Ontario Canada become part of the USA? I believe the Provincial Legislature & Canadian Parliament plus the 300,000 residents around Windsor would take a great deal of exception to that.
"If stupid things work...then they are not stupid."