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And I think Full Self-Driving was the point at which that dynamic achieved escape velocity, and ever since then, we’ve been living in the Elon Musk sort of cinematic universe. ELON MUSK: I think we’re still on track for being able to go cross-country from LA to New York by the end of the year, Mines Game fully autonomous. ELON MUSK: I mean, it’s looking quite likely that it will be next year. In February 2009, Musk claimed in an email to customers that „the Department of Energy informed Tesla last week that they expect to disburse funds from our $350M Model S loan application within four to five months.“ But Niedermeyer found the government agency had actually rejected the application in December 2008 and Tesla didn’t resubmit until May 2009 - months after Musk claimed he had verbal approval. As Niedermeyer described, Musk was seeing how exaggeration and deception could be a boon for the company, but he had a problem: the Department of Energy loan kept him somewhat restrained.