Elon Musk

I'm old enough to remember when Adam Schefter was Time's Man of the Year

(Ha ha)

I love the way Time gave it to Nixon in '71 and then a joint award to Nixon/Kissinger the year after 👏👏👏 quality work lads 👏👏👏

kissinger got the peace prize in 73. they pulled the trigger too early

well, yeah

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Yeah just a little off the top and then lets go with a full undercut to make sure the hair transplant scars are visible in the profile pic.twitter.com/bwq6FqxOtd

— warrior cop (@wyatt_privilege) December 14, 2021

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is that gromes on the left

we have such sights

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@chadkirchner What do you know about Tesla apparently using 2017 packs in brand new cars? I’ve never heard about this before. pic.twitter.com/EHa1X05CG7

— William (@willzlife) December 19, 2021

one of the design "quriks" on Teslas is that they have no consistency whatsoever. I remember an article about some mechanic who disassembled 10+ of them and found that no two were built alike; most of them were missing bolts or clamps somewhere. that was a couple years ago...I doubt anything's changed since

yeah their qc is famously awful

my little brother bought one and it wound up bricking within 100 miles. randomly shut off and wouldn't start back up. spent hours on the phone and they even sent a tech out there but they couldn't get it working so they had to tow it away. now to their credit they did give him a full refund but they also banned him from buying a new Tesla for a year (??)

lol

Did your brother ask if they could extend the ban

lmao thats fantastic

do you have games on your phone pic.twitter.com/p5tOJ5Am3y

— br◎seph (@on3ness) December 20, 2021

oh no

Musk has a honky Kim Jong-un vibe.

How long until Kanye designs a car.

obligatory:
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That remote ignition killswitch in subprime cars? It's now in Teslas. https://t.co/r2TbiNdIr2

— Cory Doctorow MOSTLY AFK (@doctorow) December 20, 2021

what could go wrong?

US probes potential of drivers playing video games in Teslas

ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into the potential for Tesla drivers to play video games on a center touch screen while the vehicle is in motion.

In a document posted Wednesday on its website, the agency says the feature, called “Passenger Play,” may distract the driver and increase the risk of a crash...

we heard you liked tetris so we put tetris in your tesla and also we want you to die

one of the design "quriks" on Teslas is that they have no consistency whatsoever.

I live in a Tesla-heavy town and can confirm this. Start looking at basic defects like doors and trunk lids that don't quite line-up correctly and once you see enough differences among different Teslas it gets pretty obvious.

👀 https://t.co/oZ8yvZgjZ9

— The Urbanist (@UrbanistOrg) December 30, 2021

You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:50 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is it finally time to use this?

Lol their stock price is actually up today, what a joke

iyo did Elon musk ruin the internet

don’t cars have minor recall/maintenance things all the time? i’m looking for every opportunity to take shots at elon but meh

tbf every tesla probably has a dozen reasons for recall though

This is like half the Teslas ever sold though

they couldn’t admit that they aren’t sure which ones actually need a recall because there was no manual on how to run the camera wires and one team just stapled them to the trunk

i'm a little confused by how this is reported, in part because i'm not sure how unusual it is to not know based on model whether the vehicle will have a defect. i do remember hearing/reading about tesla's lack of standards for components/assembly. the article says 1% of the model 3s in the recall are actually affected. i guess they would normally be able to limit it to a range of VINs.

one would think!

"Don't worry. We can always fix it in the software."

TESLA MOTORS - "Move fast and break things, literally."

can't wait

Boring company's "traffic-jam-solving-tunnel" has traffic jams lol.

Cue everyone telling me that car tubes are more sustainable than an actual functioning public transit network 😉 pic.twitter.com/jLZ6YEhr20

— Matt Lowne (@Matt_Lowne) January 6, 2022

Just wait until a car is disabled.

god the Elon stans are fucking exhausting:

Please explain how "public transit" which has been tried and rejected by the American people is suddenly just gonna start working?

— Kitsune Streaming Co (@co_kitsune) January 6, 2022

please explain how "geometry" which has been tried and rejected by the american automobile is suddenly just going to start working.

love to reject something that exists in only the absolutely most desirable places to live

Imagine all those rejected A line cars shuttling back and forth, empty and forlorn, never to start working.

Just wait until a terrorist puts bombs in self-driving cars at each end of a tunnel.

It's impossible to imagine such a thing, even though you have just imagined it and it would be amazingly simple and effective, if it were even possible to imagine it.

'welp, we tried subways, buses and ferries, they don't work so I guess it's just luxury cars from here on out!'

love to reject something that exists in only the absolutely most desirable places to live

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 6, 2022 1:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is a good post

I get that driving an automobile can be cool and was really novel in like the 1930s but the complete lack of historical perspective from these people kind of blows my mind

Not that I live a block from where a trolley track used to run and it would have taken directly me to the bar and grocery store that's just over a mile away or anything

*wistfully gazing at the spot where the trolley was*

I can't believe the single lane tunnel thing actually exists. What if a car bricks or randomly starts on fire or experiences any of the other weird issues that Teslas seem to have? How would people get out?

Or is this like the dream scenario for the Bazingas? Is there a nobler death...?