Elon Musk

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.

poor robot Beatle

hate to say it, but Elon Musk stealing a bit of Thiel’s playbook and parlaying it to stock market success is funny in the context of their rivalry. absolutely both megalomaniacal dorks, but Musk’s grift is barely opaque after a quick look and Thiel thinks he’s truly subversive while being such a caustic shithead

I saw peter thiel in a park in Beverly Hills a couple of weeks back. He seemed to have joined a friend who had kids. He stood next to my while I pushed my kid on the swings and was confused about whether there was a correct way to face the kid on the swing. Not a joke.

that was a cusp that affected the future of humankind

You should have had your kid kick that Elizabeth Bathory motherfucker in the head.

max said broadly the same thing haha

The joys of living on the bleeding edge- a thread:

On the way to dinner tonight my @Tesla literally locked up IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY! A message Ive never seen before popped up saying "Vehicle May Not Restart: Service required"

Well thats no good I think... pic.twitter.com/Q4Dm492y4Z

— Pooch @Repkord (@repkord) September 23, 2021

oops

Just unplug it, wait 30 seconds, then plug it in again.

Zap the PRAM

There are other EVs out there and more to come. Eventually Tesla will run out of fools.

pic.twitter.com/hlLtyraCF5 https://t.co/BXefM0tEci

— literally a grrl ghost 🎃 (@GrrlGhost) September 24, 2021

the prophecy is fulfilled https://t.co/Rg6xLSi6Z8 pic.twitter.com/ULDi9suDAy

— Scott Chegg (@buckfastbadlad) September 24, 2021

😭😭not apartheid Clyde pic.twitter.com/HxfRXfqfAk

— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) September 24, 2021

apartheid clyde

I'm curious to what the azealiabanks account actually said now, because it appears to have gotten it suspended.

TOWSON 1-2 N CHARLES ST & W TOWSONTOWN BL - VEHICLE FIRE. TESLA ON FIRE. REQUEST LARGE CAPACITY WATER TANKER, HAZMAT UNIT, AND FOAM UNIT DUE TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE ON FIRE. ROAD IS BLOCKED #BCOTRAFFIC @LVFC30 @ProvidenceVFC29 @BaltCoFire pic.twitter.com/hJfPyTcwfx

— Baltimore Co. Volunteer Firefighter’s Association (@BaltCoVolFire) October 1, 2021

hmmm

https://i.imgur.com/I3RHZ0x.png

Guy wearing a spacex shirt walked in to loudly observe “it’s like if you pressed pause during a scene in a play” pic.twitter.com/4N06zmkFBb

— ethnic steve (@EthnicSteve) October 17, 2021

HAs S HE HAD PLASTIC S

https://elonmusk.today/

The new Tesla is great except it randomly, strongly and inexplicably brakes when it definitely shouldn't between one and five times an hour.https://t.co/3ZcrvD6HIx pic.twitter.com/X1gNGs2Rtb

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 26, 2021

my boyfriend is great but he randomly, strongly and inexplicably cheats on me when he definitely shouldn't between one and five times an hour.

tbf that tweet makes it seem like the review understates major problems when really its pretty negative and recommends against buying

And, dear reader, I'm sorry to say, this first one will not be good. The Model Y is a phenomenal achievement in many ways, a great blend of range and practicality and even performance mixed with a suite of unique features that are as useful as they are distinct. But, as it stands, you absolutely should not buy one. Let me elaborate on the why.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/2021-tesla-model-y-review/

rode in a friends tesla on a 5hr road trip a few months ago (i dont remember what model they have), and the constant sudden braking was infuriating. it was a lot of 55mph rural roads, and the brakes would automatically activate any time the car passed anywhere near any stop sign, incl ones on intersecting secondary roads we passed, as well as lots of other times on the open road for seemingly no reason. it was really annoying.

jesus

wouldn't even buy a self-driving sack cart off this cunt.

"There is no way to sugarcoat this."https://t.co/jRxERoK8AI

— Futurism (@futurism) November 30, 2021

Musk continued to make his frustrations loud and clear in the email, while also stressing the severity of the situation. He even went as far as demanding his employees return to work despite it being a holiday weekend.
“Unless you have critical family matters or cannot physically return to Hawthorne, we will need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster,” he wrote.
Musk added that even though he had planned to take the weekend off, he would “be on the Raptor line all night and through the weekend.”

prelude to telsa buying space x i guess

Heltsley to Elon: "I learned it by watching you!"

In email leaked by Elon musk Elon musk claims spacex facing bankruptcy

might be an attempt at imitating jim bakker and expecting the money to flow in

space ain't cheap

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/november/dick-moves