ClaimsElon Musk

“With the advent of autonomy, it will probably make sense to shrink the size of buses and transition the role of bus driver to that of fleet manager.”

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, blog author 20 July 2016 Master Plan, Part Deux (Tesla)

Prediction Their own work or organisation

With autonomy, it will probably make sense to shrink buses and turn bus drivers into fleet managers.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Vague 'probably makes sense' prediction with no horizon, conditional on autonomy.

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Elon Musk, “With autonomy, it will probably make sense to shrink buses and turn bus drivers into fleet managers.” (said 20 July 2016). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_c84bf75d0c5c, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_c84bf75d0c5c

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