Tesla Motors CEO and technology investor Elon Musk said research in the area could be like "summoning the demon" that is beyond control.

On Friday morning, Musk answered Acton's tweet by saying "What's Facebook?"

星期五上午，马斯克回复Acton的推文说，“什么是Facebook？”

Mr Musk was speaking a day after General Motors stole a march on rivals at the Detroit motor show by unveiling a battery electric concept car with a targeted price tag of$ 30000.

就在马斯克发表这番讲话一天前，在底特律车展上，通用汽车（General Motors）悄然抢占先机，披露了一款以电池电力推动的概念车，其目标价位定为3万美元。

Unveiling the first prototypes of the car, designed as a starter luxury vehicle and priced at$ 35000 for the base model, Mr Musk confirmed that Tesla expected to hit its production target of late 2017 for the vehicle.

在发布这款车的首批原型时，马斯克证实，特斯拉预计会在2017年底实现这款车的生产目标。Model3是一款入门级豪车，其基本型定价为3.5万美元。

Musk has responded in tweets and elsewhere that lots of cars catch on fire after road accidents.

马斯克已经在Twitter上以及其他场合回应说，许多车都会在发生交通事故后起火。

Investors worried it would distract the company at a critical time, as it struggles to fix nagging production problems and accelerate a move to mass production of its next vehicle, the Model 3, by two years.

投资者担心，在特斯拉竭力消除持续不断的生产问题并加速向下一款车型Model3的大规模生产转型之际，马斯克此举会在关键时期把该公司注意力分散两年时间。

Russia gets on board the Hyperloop: Government invests in Elon Musk's high speed transport system

俄罗斯登上超级高铁：政府投资马斯克的高速运输系统

He's already delayed the introduction of his second car, the Model X, several times, and now it isn't due until 2015" s third quarter.

新车型要想成功是很难的，马斯克已经数次推迟了第二款车型Model X的发布，现在它可能要等到2015年第三季度才能正式上市。

Mr. Musk is a guy who gets things done.

马斯克先生是能把事情干成的人。

A cool 1m. At$ 35000, but with the sizzle of the Tesla brand and incorporating many of the features of the far more expensive Model S, Mr Musk has decided the 3 represents a breakthrough moment.

Model3售价3.5万美元，借助特斯拉品牌的热度，再加上纳入了昂贵得多的Model S的很多功能，马斯克认为，Model3代表着一个突破时刻。

It could eventually, be like having a babysitter and a nurse rolled into one--or, if that required emotional intelligence beyond the power of Mr. Musk's imagined machine, at least someone to chop the carrots, wash the car and mow the lawn.

这最终就好像将保姆和护士合二为一了——又或者如果所需的情绪智力超过了马斯克先生设想中的机器人，那至少我们也会拥有会切胡萝卜、洗车或修剪草坪的帮手。

So it is, perhaps, with an interview in which Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave to Germany's Handelsblatt.

德国商报采访特斯拉CEO埃隆·马斯克就是这种情况。

Cargo doesn't need windows, Musk quipped before the capsule's first flight to the space station in 2012.

马斯克在太空舱2012年第一次飞往国际空间站时打趣道：货物不需要windows。

Musk also announced that every flamethrower will ship with a "complimentary Boring fire extinguisher."

马斯克还说每个火焰喷射器都附赠“免费的Boring灭火器”。

Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur and minimum wage earner.

伊隆·马斯克（Elon Musk），亿万富豪企业家和最低工资收入者。

Google CEO and cofounder Larry Page is quite friendly with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

谷歌创始人和CEO拉里佩奇和特斯拉与SpaceX的CEO伊隆马斯克的关系非常友好。

Musk announced that all 20000 of the Boring Company-branded flamethrowers have sold out.

马斯克宣布Boring Company生产的共20000个火焰喷射器已售罄。

There was an overpressure event in the upper-stage liquid oxygen tank, tweeted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

SapceX的CEO埃隆马斯克在推特上写道：上层的液氧舱发生了压力过大的问题。

Mr Musk had a succinct answer, when asked about that on his company's quarterly earnings call earlier this week: Apple and Google do not make things.

在最近特斯拉的季度财报电话会议上被问及这个问题时，马斯克的回答简明扼要：苹果和谷歌（Google）不从事生产。

Mr Musk's vision, two decades after Yahoo's directory seemed a better bet than Google, is still improbable but it is no longer inconceivable.

在雅虎的目录貌似比谷歌（Google）更值得投资的20年后，马斯克的愿景仍不太可能实现，但不再不可想象了。

Earlier this month, Mr Musk revealed the cost of a ticket to Mars on board a SpaceX flight would be less than$ 100000.

本月早些时候，马斯克先生透露，乘坐Space X宇宙飞船前往火星的票价可能会低于10万美元。