Elon Musk

yeah def true

I remember being a kid and thinking the little handle over the door was just kind of a novelty in cars, then I become an adult and everyone’s using it to climb in and out of my car.

america’s knees are not doing well

a tall friend of mine upon acquiring his first crossover was like fuck that shit im never getting into a low car again

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ffs

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crossover is much easier on the back if you're loading kids in and out and you're in the US where the sidewalk is like 18 inches about the street.

I’m currently driving an ‘06 Pontiac Vibe that I bought for like $4K over 6 years ago, and it still runs like brand new at over 200k miles. Don’t know if I got especially lucky, but I have heard from car nerds (of the super practical strain) that those were some weirdly good cars in spite of the Pontiac brand mostly being a punchline by the 90s

these ppl seem also v bullish on early-mid 00s CRVs (if you’re looking for stupid cheap but reliable)

i believe the vibe is just a rebranded toyota matrix which explains all that

^yep this is true

it did seem like at the time I was in the market for a ridic cheap car the Toyota’s had retained more of their resale value (naturally)

i bought a used car a while back and was looking at that model, was not uncommon to see the matrix of similar year/mileage be 2k more than the vibe

the Geo Prizm was a rebrand of a Toyota too

widely known as the toyota tax

Friend’s Vibe just crossed 300k miles

they're called kilometres

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lol

Don't let anybody tell you that the Tesla yoke is a good idea https://t.co/f1SkdDmRhI pic.twitter.com/WpCKb2Mt2D

— Edmunds (@edmunds) September 7, 2021

I kinda think the SpaceX space suits look pretty dorky.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qs5VnkS6doevtfKhD2D7AK-1024-80.jpg.webp

They look like they should come with a pack of markers so that you can decorate them yourself, like a plain paper placemat at a restaurant when you order the kids menu.

combination Storm Trooper/Interstellar wannabe spacesuit design, issued only in two-sizes-too-big form.

https://i.imgur.com/UQ2ovzU.jpg

It looks like what you wear to the gym in space. That helmet screams recumbent bicycle too.

Hoping Ledge just happened to have a blank template of Gordon laying around.

fortunately there are some just lying around on the internet for anyone to pick up.

this is me on page 9 (of my gis results)

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Damn! pic.twitter.com/4Fr828loCQ

— Taylor Ogan (@TaylorOgan) September 15, 2021

JUST DRIVE YOUR OWN CAR.

Disappointing that it didn’t slam into a pylon.

oooOooof

BREAKING: Elon Musk Rushes To Aid Of Overturned Tesla Pinned On Top Of Child https://t.co/azxHMq4Wta pic.twitter.com/nHea9mXPhm

— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 17, 2021

My friend's Tesla just had to be in the shop for three weeks, thanks to supply/equipment shortages. This is not its first prolonged service visit, either. His wife jokes that it's been in the shop more than it's been in the carport.

Oh, I was telling him about some of those videos upthread, especially the Edmunds guy who got car sick with the model Plaid (or whatever it's called) and he conceded that his Tesla sometimes makes him a little ill, too. I wonder if there is something to that, psychologically, with all electric cars, where for some people the near silence throws off your body/brain connection? Like the way some people need to be behind the wheel to avoid car sickness, or at the least how looking ahead where you're going is key to avoiding nausea. Maybe some people have been conditioned to need the sound of a motor or acceleration? That's a feature some EV et al. cars have, right? To *add* some engine noise?

Anyway, my buddy is literally the first and only Tesla owner I've met that is willing to say bad things about the car and its performance. I'll be curious if he sticks with it when his lease is up.

I wonder if there is something to that, psychologically, with all electric cars, where for some people the near silence throws off your body/brain connection?

lol buddy WHATTTT

Is that so far fetched? I don't mean it as something wrong with EVs, just something wrong with our brains. Like the way Teslas et al. offered the update back at launch that made cars creep forward a little with your foot off the "gas," or the way some cars offer the option of piping the sound of acceleration *into* the interior, through the speakers. Just like being on a big boat, where you might not actually see it or feel it moving or rocking but your brain certainly recognizes it, which can lead to sea sickness. Isn't that what the tester in the Edmunds video (is that upthread?) hypothesized after the Plaid made him motion sick in a way that even being in the backseat of a Formula 1 car did not?

ppl seem to think the regen breaking is the main culprit, can be too herky jerky, tho im sure the insane acceleration cld do it too

A little bookmark for anyone following the progress of western civilization 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QCSK8walTC

— stricture (@bog_beef) September 18, 2021

But the real issue here is psychological: Musk has learned, again and again, that the secret to winning is to play chicken and never flinch. Whatever issue finally wrecks Tesla, and there's a good chance it's driving automation, Musk will drive directly into it at top speed.

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) September 20, 2021

Coupla blind squirrels here

“Musk thinks Peter is a sociopath, and Peter thinks Musk is a fraud and a braggart.” https://t.co/40tK77p8KA

— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) September 20, 2021

i burst out laughing at that

spidermen pointing at each other

https://t.co/7KXV29jrAk pic.twitter.com/J7JHA01thx

— Sandy Johnston 🚰 (@sandypsj) September 20, 2021

No need to listen to this podcast episode honestly but god this clip from Rogan & Musk slayed me

The world’s most popular podcaster and the world’s richest man have the world’s stupidest conversation. This week on Double Threat @scharpling @julieklausner pic.twitter.com/IspE1cTYPJ

— DOUBLE THREAT (@DoubleThreatPod) September 20, 2021

using a race car steering wheel but not knowing that in race cars they have a much higher turning ratio, just musk stuff

Tried it and... the yoke, as implemented, is one of the dumbest things Tesla has ever done.

There I said it.

It'd be different if lock-to-lock was < ~120 degrees or so (you know, the point of a yoke normally), but on a standard steering rack this is just flat out stupid.

— Jason Hughes (@wk057) September 20, 2021

Consumer Reports paints a particularly forehead-slapping picture of this stupid thing: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars-driving/tesla-steering-yoke-little-benefit-potential-safety-pitfalls-a1034204120/

the steering wheel is a crutch inhibiting full self-driving roulette

Tesla swapped the tried-and-true round steering wheel for a flat-bottomed, rectangular yoke reminiscent of what pilots use to steer an airplane.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but pilots never do a hand-over-hand-over-hand turn, do they?

Clip from China of a $TSLA Model 3, evidently equipped with the latest and greatest safety technology. My guess is the 4D dojo supercomputer recognizes that the pedestrian dummy is not a human and therefore sees no reason to perform evasive maneuvers. pic.twitter.com/R1mQqbxIy9

— degen (@finance_degen) September 20, 2020

if your computer can't suss out the dummies, you'll be vulnerable to wagon train robbery

it appears the pedestrian-recognition neural net core is actually just a copy of freeware classic Truck Dismount.

tbf it let them shrink the size of the chip dramatically, leaving room for the forthcoming bong-holder add-on.

Maybe the dummy just needs its own chip.