Elon Musk

"tesla, take me downtown"
"ok, i'll take you upside-down"

*immediate fire death*

me: ok i will just open the door and get out
tesla: no lol

tesla, i don't want to die
ok, you're gonna die though

*doors lock*

telsa please let me out
im kind of busy right now (being on fire)

Yeah, I did read the thread. At first I thought they were *trying* to make it blow up, to show how easy it was. Instead I guess they were mostly trying to make it go upside down and get scratched, which in turn showed how easy it was to blow up.

Had a conversation with a friend the other day who is convinced self-driving cars are absolutely happening. He's not a Tesla/Musk stan, he just thinks it's inevitable. My counter was that it couldn't happen on a mass scale because there are just too many uncontrollable variables to account for, and as a counter tried to think of a single autonomous, untethered, easily lethal machine we regularly encounter and I came up with nada. Elevators could kill you, but they're on a track. Same with trains. But self-driving cars everywhere would be like swimming with sharks. You just never know which one is going to get you. Especially if you dress as a tiny stop sign and it thinks you are farther away than you really are.

basically no one who works on autonomous vehicle tech thinks that full autonomy is happening any time soon if at all, and these are mostly people who thought they were close ten years ago, there has however been a lot of progress made in autonomous safety features lane assist auto breaking adaptive cruise control and so forth, of course when you take that stuff and market it as self driving it becomes not safe

Oh, wait, looking a bit more I guess the fire was faked/triggered? Can't vouch, but I found some translated German article:

"For safety reasons, it was not possible to ignite a real battery fire at an event with around 500 people, which is why a fire with pyrotechnics was staged," said the Axa press office in Cologne at the request of 24auto.de: "We wanted to use the fire the accident researchers: on the one hand point out the danger of a cell fire, which can result from damage to the underside of the electric car, and on the other hand point out the problems with fires in electric vehicles."

Anyway, looks like the Tesla has eclipsed the Pinto for number of people dying in fires. Interesting, found a couple of random articles comparing the two cars almost a decade ago!

https://qz.com/146604/why-tesla-doesnt-have-a-pinto-problem-with-its-car-fires-yet/

https://greenerideal.com/news/vehicles/0331-whats-difference-ford-pinto-tesla-s-much-really/

thats dumb just have the 500 people stand back a bit whats the big deal

"Goggles on, everyone!"

a safety issue with evs in general is fast acceleration of a very heavy car is not a great combo

saw a review of a hyundai ioniq where the guy was just lighting up its tires and giggling about it, they basically built a volkswagen tiguan with the power of a porsche macan

even something like the tesla plaid x which is more designed to be a performance car im sure you could absolutely destroy its suspension and what not if you consistently floored it

the instant torque of evs is a perfect just because you can doesnt mean you should situation, and then considering the weight of the batteries you probably just shouldnt, most people dont even care about that stuff, let them buy performance cars if they do

lol I didn't even know this existed:

https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberquad-for-kids

thats very silly

me: tesla, we've not been to the dairy bar in a while and...
tesla: There's nothing. I know. Have a good journey, Mr. Weyland.

lmao

So, this is how well things are going in Norway for Tesla Owners...https://t.co/3rM9EBPovu

— CommonSenseSkeptic (@C_S_Skeptic) August 29, 2022

The car won't start in cold weather

Intense squeaking noise

Car won't start in warm weather

the three bullet separation between cold weather and warm weather is killing me

You have to wait on the phone for a long time before Tesla answers

Oh come on. Ever called, like, anyone? Join the club, Norwegians.

lol I didn't even know this existed:

https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberquad-for-kids

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 28, 2022 10:37 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

my brother got a Model 3 one for my son which Tesla gave him as a “gift” for buying 2 real ones. It hasn’t started on fire yet but it did have a lot of weird issues with the electrical components and the steering wheel popped off. It also gets stuck on anything that’s not concrete, which sucks because kids love to off road these things. After a year (which ain’t much because in Wisconsin you can only really use the thing for 6 months max) one of the axles broke. The only good thing I can say is it was pretty fast (6 mph) but even that is obnoxious because the parents have to follow along.

followed the link. "This item is out of stock"

i don't mind stealing bread
from the mouths of Pretorians

Mojave Desert to Tesla drivers: "send more cars!"

slightly worried this Tesla seems to have had BeamNG installed https://t.co/eLFpvMy2eT

— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) August 29, 2022

the desert attempting to reclaim its lithium

Another problem with steering non-wheels that can only be held in one exact place:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-steering-yokes-are-disintegrating-before-30000-miles

...and of removing all buttons, knobs, and levers for the driver to use:

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/08/31/the-danger-of-removing-all-buttons-knobs-levers/

this seems like the ball game?

Twitter:

May 8th, Musk to Morgan Stanley: "let's slow down just a few days ... it won't make sense to buy Twitter if we are heading into World War 3"

177/

— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) September 6, 2022

whats he talking about re ww3

Bad idea: "Let's go race our Tesla at 100mph+ in the middle of the night on the Bonneville Salt Flats" https://t.co/PvpANPqCge

— AI6YR (@ai6yrham) September 6, 2022

xp withdrawing from the deal for a reason unrelated to his claimed reason for backing out and certainly unrelated to the scope merger agreement

what does he mean by ww3 tho like actual world war three

Ukraine, I’m guessing

Lol that was a text from Musk to Mr. Grimes

Oh, I belime

Ukraine, I’m guessing

― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Tuesday, September 6, 2022 8:39 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thought the same but musks initial offer to buy twitter came after the war started, which is not to say he couldnt have just gotten the idea at some point that now its going to be ww3, but also he could just be talking about something else

some sort of figurative world war three, or maybe a secret world war three, idk

The text before the WWIII one said, “Putin is speaking tomorrow”

putin is going to announce ww3 tomorrow better not buy twitter, a thing we all think from time to time

I’m pretty sure idiots going fast in the desert after dark has caused a lot of casualties really re: salt flats

Nah, normal cars are invincible in desert conditions

i took my 2002 audi a4 avant on there but it was kind of wet and gummy did not reach max speed had to hose it down after for sure, that was during the day tho

I know nothing about the salt flats but How much salt is in the dust i should think that would be corrosive as fuck without super washout and cleaning

driving out onto the salt flats is fun. best to be careful about where though, some areas are wetter than others and blocked by embankments. the north side between mm 15 and 20, west of the "tree of life" is generally ok, although i see after having driven out that way yesterday that they have put up little fences on the side of the freeway in that section.

I think they steam treat certain tracks when they're trying for a speed record... as noted earlier, they can be pretty slushy, like walking on rock salt

lol

Not only has Tesla's strict return-to-office policy damaged morale but the company lacks resources to house everyone: shortage of chairs, desk space, parking spots, dongles, charging cords, phone booths and conference rooms. https://t.co/zvgY86QIqM

— Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (@amydiehl) September 15, 2022

Musk is more than enough dongle for the whole place.

Musk himself is a dingle

Elon's college girlfriend from Penn just auctioned off a bunch of old photos of him, a birthday card, and a necklace he gave her:

https://www.rrauction.com/search/results/?lot=&str=elon%20musk&exclude=&cat=0&sort=time&auctions=0&view=gallery&page=1&itemQty=96&catalogLotNumber=&cp=past-auctions&searchType=title

im goin g to buy them

i dont understand why someone would pay thousands of dollars for these snapshots, is there a businessman collectables market