標題：Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks

副標題：Reality is catching up with Elon Musk.

正文：It’s a rare thing to shoot yourself in the foot and win a marathon. For years, Elon Musk has managed to do something like that with Tesla, achieving monumental success in spite of a series of self-inflicted disasters. There was the time he heavily promoted the company’s automated factory, only to later admit that its “crazy, complex network of conveyor belts” had thrown production of the Model 3 off track; and the time a tweet led him to be sued for fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission; and the time he said that the Tesla team had “dug our own grave” with the massively delayed and overhyped Cybertruck. Tesla is nonetheless the most valuable car company in the world by a wide margin.

知識點：shoot oneself in the foot

to do something that unintentionally harms oneself. 搬起石頭砸自己的腳

e.g. By refusing to compromise, he shot himself in the foot and lost the deal. 他因拒絕妥協而自毀前程，失去了這筆交易。

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