^^ ooh, i like that one! a few too many polys but it's getting there
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
https://miro.medium.com/max/2652/1*uEe9rvbQB8XM6uYWT_6vng.jpeg
tbf it is hard to argue w the utility of these things, drives/etc like a car while being halfway to the interior/head/storage space of a truck
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
a tall friend of my w bad knees who drives a crossover told me hes never hunkering down to get into a car again which is fair
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
think i like the mercedes vers out of all of those, lil more boxy like a truck, doesnt have a weird elongated front end
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
mods, lagoon just posted 23 of the same image, pls fix or replace w/ cybertrucks
― imago, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
The Dyson vacuum worked pretty well, actually! It was actually a plastic part that broke, not the vacuum function itself. There seem to be a lot of vacuums that have mimicked it, though, which is ... what will happen with the best Musk advances.
Dyson is another dick - what a suprise, eh? Pro-Brexit wanker.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
the volvo is so weirdly slanted i dont like it (tho i did drive one and it fucking shredded and was huge inside so the experience was actually pretty great even if it looks like its about to pounce on you)
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
mods, lagoon just posted 23 of the same image
would be a good poll, although one is clearly superior to the rest
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
pretty obvious if you take a few seconds to examine each one
Oh no pic.twitter.com/RLDfmAxMUe— Jon Christian.info (@Jon_Christian) November 22, 2019
― mark s, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
lol
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
feel like the volvo s90 is a good example of a car that cld be easy to criticize as samey but is really low key pretty original, the fancy picture doesnt do justice to how monstrous it is, i saw one covered in dust in a parking lot off a dirt road and it was huge and scary, its basically a euro muscle car
https://i.imgur.com/uGYPAFl.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
also the way the rear end is styled almost like a hatchback is pretty unusual
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
shd be noted too that new cars are so good from an experience pov driving/comfort/safety etc, my dad has a new tundra and i drove it around the icy backroads of vermont and it was so good, for you city slickers icy dirt roads are by far the most challenging on road driving configuration there is, anyway the tundra just breezed along handles like a car but w the power of a truck, plus its got all the fancy lil features like auto dimming brights, it sees cars coming toward you from very far away and dims your headlights relieving you of a very annoying job, i want that car even if the grill looks dumb
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
lagoon doing good work itt, appreciating it
― circa1916, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
courtesy flashing of the brights to u
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
hes out there trying to disrupt a huge mature industry containing deep institutional knowledge like hes making an app and it shows
― lag∞n, Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:33 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
anyway i want a tacoma because i am a boring stereotype thx
― gbx, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
they do rule as vehicles tbf
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
its true
― gbx, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
This is stunning stuff. TESLA tried to have a whistleblower SWATTED, arrested & placed on a mental health hold in retaliation for him going to journalists with safety violations. Bravo to this police officer for documenting the entire interaction in writing https://t.co/OOsBdBRN6s— Ali Winston (@awinston) November 23, 2019
― mark s, Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
corporate scum
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
that station wagons with rear-facing seats in the back are a thing of the past is yet another sign of how corrupted our culture is
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 23 November 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
seriously
how do kids today tie action figures onto a spool of fishing line and let them drag far behind on the highway, occasionally reeling them back in to see how warped and deformed they are?
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 23 November 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
^for some reason my parents were cool with this
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
We lease a Chevy Bolt EV and we love how peppy and quiet and easy to park it is. I think once major car manufacturers start responding to the demand signal for EVs, Tesla could very well be toast.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
(the chevy dealerships in the DC/MD/VA area can’t keep Bolts on the lot - EVs are incredibly desirable cars, it’s just a matter of manufacturing capacity and charging infrastructure being brought into line with how much people want them)
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
electric cars are neato
elon musk needs to evade this threadjack and invent a glider imo
― imago, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
re: crossovers, I got my mom into a Kia Soul to ditch her shitty Chevy something lease deal and it's kind of the perfect car (aside from having to get used to the nature of a dual clutch transmission moving from idle). Enthusiasts bemoan their downsides over car-cars but how many people are driving in such a way that they notice any added body roll?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
I think once major car manufacturers start responding to the demand signal for EVs, Tesla could very well be toast.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, November 23, 2019 7:28 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 November 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
^^^ a friend had a Renault Zoe as a loan car for a couple of weeks. First EV I've seen that was basically a regular car, also although it was expensive, the price was "only" a few thousand more than a high end Clio.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 24 November 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
My last couple of cars have been leased, the lease is about to end on my (diesel) Ford Fiesta and I've been seriously considering an EV, though as I rely on on-street parking I'm not convinced I'll be able to keep it charged (I do about 300 miles a week). Would get a PHEV but that'd need even more regular access to a charging point, so I may cop out and go for a "self charging" hybrid.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 24 November 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
my friend who covers FormulaE for a living and can bore for the olympics on recent breakthroughs in battery and recharge development (paradoxically given its frivolous rich-kid ambience it's where a lot of the current high-end EV R&D is happening) is *enormously* scornful of TESLA in general and musk in particular
― mark s, Sunday, 24 November 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
There's a certain weird mix of insecurity and arrogant d-baggery in some Tesla drivers. Your faithful correspondent snoball was walking about the town earlier, when I happened to see a Tesla come out of a junction on to a main road. It appeared to 'stall' (do Teslas even stall?), and in a show of defiant overcompensation, the driver engaged Super Pursuit Mode or whatever it's called and roared off along the street. Or rather whined off down the street because no exhaust note.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 24 November 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
Saw this just last week.
Don't get me wrong – the Subaru driver was at fault and "lost the fight" as soon as he went aggro. But.
The Tesla driver did jump into that middle lane PDQ without so much as a turn signal. And how that first sub-head is "Don’t these guys learn Teslas have TeslaCam?" does lend itself that the arrogant stereotype does have some basis.
― pplains, Sunday, 24 November 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
The twitter thread above about the whistleblower is scary. Also is it coincidental that the truck press conference on the same day buried this news coming out?
― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 24 November 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
hahaha how did I miss this
SpaceX Starship blows its top at Boca Chica
― Book Doula (sleeve), Monday, 25 November 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
though as I rely on on-street parking I'm not convinced I'll be able to keep it charged
i had a teacher once who was a fairly early EV adopter, well before there were ever charging stations around and before there was much in the way of norms around charging, and i think he got into low-stakes criminal jeopardy by cadging charge from some city power source or something
― j., Monday, 25 November 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
that swatting story is nuts, even more nuts that no one's gonna be charged for it
― frogbs, Monday, 25 November 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
I think the plan to install charging stations at my workplace was cancelled :/
I did have the right electrical service run to my newly-built garage a few years back just in case, though
So what's the over-under on Elon himself being the one behind the swatting?
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
my be informative to see the square truck w some actual paint on it
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKOIbAPXkAg0Stl?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
haha
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
a visual metaphor of grimes
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
honda e
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKIzSNxW4AIxXfz?format=jpg&name=medium
not sure why the companies feel the need to make their e cars look electric but its kinda cute i guess
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
the bmw i3 goes to far in this regard imho, i dont think id want to drive around in this thing
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71RJhz0+kYL._UY560_.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
http://www.tvworthwatching.com/img/pages/5DMLTE88P3E1QLC.jpg
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
audi a3 plugin hybrid is nice and looks like a normal car
https://images.hgmsites.net/hug/audi-a3_100551445_h.jpg
if i were getting a new car i might like one of these except that its too short to sleep in so idk
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
in the future, it will be coolest for your e car to look like the ford explorer eddie bauer edition
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
more apparel companies shd do editions its fun imo
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link