Elon Musk

"I talked to my supervisor and he says you guys are pedophiles"

the car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel

The brother-in-law of one of the victims said relatives watched the car burn for four hours as authorities tried to tap out the flames.

they watched their relatives burn to death? eesh

if Elon gets stoned today, 60% chance he tweets about how Teslas are great value because they save you the cost of a crematory

deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.

The advice is “you don’t.” Look at the firefighting section in the manual:

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2016_Model_S_Emergency_Response_Guide_en.pdf

idgi?

FIREFIGHTING

USE WATER TO FIGHT A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FIRE. If the battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is generating heat orgases, use large amounts of water to cool the battery. It can take approximately 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request an additional water supply. If water is not immediately available, use dry chemicals, CO2, foam, or another typical fire-extinguishing agent to fight the fire until water is available.Apply water directly to the battery. If safety permits, lift or tilt the vehicle for more direct access to the battery. Apply water inside the battery ONLY if a natural opening (such as a vent or opening from a collision) already exists. Do not open the battery for the purpose of cooling it.

Extinguish small fires that do not involve the high voltage battery using typical vehicle firefighting procedures

Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames because the vehicle’s batteries kept reigniting.

seems like it wouldnt be great if one of these caught fire inside some sort of structure

three car fires = Armageddon for the globe's water supply

Honestly shocked that li-ion fires haven't already caused devastating problems. But now we have huge concentrations of them moving around at high speed.

clearly the solution is to push every accident victim and their vehicle to the bottom of the ocean

xp most RVs use the LiFePo4 formula without cobalt, which is much safer

sounds fun!

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/04/consumer-reports-shows-tesla-autopilot-works-with-no-one-in-the-drivers-seat/

had to share this, how is this thing legal?

lotta people asking about the loop "how do you get out of the tesla in an emergency when the tunnel is so narrow" without understanding that it's actually impossible to leave the backseat of a tesla in an emergency even on a regular road pic.twitter.com/1kS13oeg1I

— Well There's Your Problem Podcast (@wtyppod) April 20, 2021

The War on Cars podcast did a blow-by-blow breakdown of that terrible gushing news segment on the tunnel. While Twitter might offer better zings, it was still good for a deep dive on exactly how dumb and overhyped this thing is.

He should dig an emergency failsafe tunnel that runs parallel to the first one. And then a third one as well, just to be safe. And then more and more until he's hollowed out the earth and we get a giant one of these:

https://i.gifer.com/Q6ao.gif

dude the earth is already hollow

the earth is thicc

So, yeah, he's hosting SNL.

People on here hate Elon Musk because he has unbundled decarbonization from pious attitudes about decarbonization. https://t.co/fHrmENSHZe

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 25, 2021

a tweet that will make you want to throw your device out the window.

musk seems to be a true bipartisan hit. lots of libs that love him because of technocracy and internet-nerd-right think he's epic

People who are mad about Elon Musk hosting SNL need to understand that hosting SNL is *not* an endorsement, for example Adolf Hitler hosted SNL in 1938

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 24, 2021

It is actually not hard to think that the success of Tesla (which has to do with a lot of people not named Elon Musk in addition to Elon Musk) is a very good thing for the environment and the future while also think that Elon Musk, the person himself, seems like a big asshole, I don't see why this is supposed to set up some kind of Captain-Kirk-destroying-the-computer logical doom loop

It is actually not hard to think that the success of Tesla (which has to do with a lot of people not named Elon Musk in addition to Elon Musk) is a very good thing for the environment and the future

it's also not hard to not think this at all

I still find it incredible that apparently a Tesla's back doors can't be easily opened if the power is cut off. Or, one presumes, if the power is off and the car is on fire.

It is actually not hard to think that the success of Tesla (which has to do with a lot of people not named Elon Musk in addition to Elon Musk) is a very good thing for the environment and the future

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, April 26, 2021 4:57 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol yeah it is easy to think that, prob why so many people do

xp woah, let's not write the snl sketches for them

whoa

Elon Musk is one of the biggest obstacles to the acceptance of a post-personal-car world, which is what we really need more than anything. Don't think he gives a shit about climate change, electric cars are just the new thing, if this were the 30s he'd be selling asbestos and CFCs.

have we done Elon’s bro kimbal yet?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/KIMBAL_MUSK_OFFICIAL_HEADSHOT.jpg/428px-KIMBAL_MUSK_OFFICIAL_HEADSHOT.jpg

ive seen "elon musk's brother looks like ted bundy" online

food is the new internet

elon musk's brother is a minor character on dallas

Don't think he gives a shit about climate change

Who gives a shit about what he gives a shit about?

double Weingarten, maximum damage

Don't think he gives a shit about climate change

Who gives a shit about what he gives a shit about?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, April 26, 2021 3:06 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

he is an extremely rich and powerful person so ...

https://i.imgur.com/VK6kgV1.gif

If Elon and his brother had a baby (get working on that tech, Elon), he might look like Dwight Yoakam:

http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/dwight_yoakam.jpg

double Weingarten, maximum damage

― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, April 26, 2021 6:07 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

It is actually not hard to think that the success of Tesla (which has to do with a lot of people not named Elon Musk in addition to Elon Musk) is a very good thing for the environment

hahahaha no

Space X has pulled off some pretty wild shit but Musk comes off like a total choad. I kind of hope they get the rockets to Mars working as there is a bunch of mf'ers I would like to get sent off the Earth as soon as possible.

go to mars bitch

— br◎seph (@on3ness) June 24, 2019

https://i.imgur.com/dfzbMN1.jpeg

wrong thread but it probably works anywhere

lol

Musk is really the Platonic ideal of a choad, for me.

Don't think he gives a shit about climate change

Who gives a shit about what he gives a shit about?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, April 26, 2021 11:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

people who say he's doing good things for the environment

lmao

https://i.ibb.co/PYrJZrx/158635459-2808118269439231-3091014651316252244-n.jpg

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-makes-more-money-trading-bitcoin-than-selling-cars-11619517615

$101mn in Bitcoin trading, $500mn in selling emissions credits and -$77mn in actually selling cars.

idk what this guy is talking about all the time its a little bit inside baseball but he seems to be alleging that theres no evidence that tesla has actually sold all those credits

After some looking into China NEV program. Since there is speculation $tsla got paid by VW in China to the tune of 100s of millions in Q1.

Again, there are no receipts and all bound by confidentiality agreement. There was reuters report but no comment by either.
Let's look.

— Mindful Capitalist (aka socialist) (@HappiestYogi) April 28, 2021

Where tesla has been making a packet in credits is Europe, they sell them to other car makers who can’t make their emissions targets, whatever else you say about tesla, getting your competitors to subsidise your products is a pretty good trick whilst it lasts.