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ralfmaximus · 3 days
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Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend. No, not because the hundred-thousand–dollar medium-duty pickup, which is only any of those things in the loosest interpretive sense, tends to brick when it gets rained on; nor because its stainless steel panels get all rusty and nasty-looking after weeks exposed to the rare, harsh condition of "being outside." Perhaps you think it has something to do with the shorter-than-advertised driving range and longer-than-advertised charging time, but no: Rather, the cause of this snag is that the trucks struggle with the basics of stopping and going, by which I mean that the accelerator pedal cover slides off and gets stuck under a panel and locks the accelerator pressed down and keeps the Cybertruck stuck at maximum velocity.
Came for the headline, stayed for that opening paragraph.
Hooooly shit that is some damn fine snark. Anyway, Tesla stopped selling them this week because of a fatal flaw in the accelerator pedal. Probably the only reason nobody has died in a Cybertruck yet is that they so often fail to start and/or brick themselves regularly.
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Me 💦 or the cyber truck 🛻 🔞 @tozzyn13 you can repost ❤️
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quasi-normalcy · 7 hours
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*Sees a thoroughly rusted Cybertruck abandoned by the side of the road*
Me: "Wow, how far in the future did we go?"
My time-traveller friend: "About two weeks."
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size-writer-against · 10 hours
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syeniites · 1 day
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the fact that Tesla’s ghost deliberately led Vash and Knives to her body is SO huge fr. it would have been so easy to make it a chance discovery, to keep her as a passive catalyst to kick-start the twins’ character arcs, but NO, she CHOSE this. “I will not be forgotten” she said. “my life was short and painful but most importantly it WAS.”
we don’t know what she expected to happen - whether she just wanted her brothers to know they had a sister, or wanted to caution them about humans’ capacity for cruelty to those that are different from them, or to galvanize them to seek justice on her behalf. but she wanted something. she was a person who could want things, even after she was dead.
(the implications wrt Plants, as interdimensional beings, possibly being able to persist at least in part after the death of the physical body in this dimension are also insane, but that’s a whole nother thing. just saying: she could still be out there)
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anexperimentallife · 17 hours
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animentality · 4 months
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ralfmaximus · 4 months
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A Tesla driver has brought his wife's Model 3 in for servicing because the power steering ceased operating after the car went over a normal speed bump. The service manager (note that Tesla, unlike other car manufacturers, owns and operates all of its dealerships, so the workers there are Tesla employees) identifies the culprit: A system component has become corroded—probably, he says, because the car went through a car wash. The repairs will cost $4,400. The driver observes, reasonably, that he has never heard of a car's wiring being damaged by simply taking it through a car wash.
Reuters did a huge receipts-padded article on the grifting operation that is Tesla, that they have been knowingly selling shoddy, defective, dangerous cars. Then, when those shitty cars break within the first few hundred miles, Tesla blames the owner for "abuse" and won't honor the warranty.
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hunter-rodrigez · 10 months
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As sketchy as the oceangate submarine was... you can bet your ass every single one of musky's endeavors would look just as sketchy if it wasn't for the fact that he's forced to work with government regulators.
Hell, most of his projects are this sketchy if you look a bit closer. For example: the tesla tunnels.
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No fire suppression system, no emergency exits, no emergency lighting, no way for EMS to get through, no fucking nothing. I am pretty sure it's not even big enough to open the car's doors.
Or the Cybertruck that's a deathtrap for both the people on the outside and the people on the inside because it utterly disregards the last 50 or so years of advancements in car safety technology such as crumple zones or safety glass
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Or the tesla model 3 where you can't even open the back doors without power. So if you're in an accident and lose power... good luck getting your kids out of the back, especially when the huge battery is turning into a huge, unextinguishable flamethrower.
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Or the fucking starship launchpad that was utterly destroyed by the rocket and threw huge concrete chunks and other debris around for miles... which, incidentally, also destroyed the rocket.
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That's what all these self-proclaimed Silicon Valley tech bro geniuses are like.
They all think they know better than everyone else, and that rules or consequences don't apply to them, and they see safety as little more than an afterthought.
It's why Ai and social media algorithms are used sooooo ethically. It's why amazon and facebook try to find out everything about you and happily sell that data with no disregard for what it could be used for.
It's about damn time one of these CEO dipshits got killed by their own dipshitery, I just wish it had been musk or bezos instead...
Once again, in conclusion:
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discluded · 1 year
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Have y’all heard that Tesla is removing turn signal stalks and gear selectors from their cars as a “feature.”
They did it with the Model S and X earlier this year, and they’re about to refresh the Model 3 to do the same. Since the Model 3 and Y share about 75% of the same parts, it’s safe to assume it’ll get the same treatment very soon, too. Meaning, 100% of Tesla’s lineup is about to have zero stalks on the steering column.
You activate turn signals via CAPACITIVE touch buttons on the steering wheel, and you don’t shift the car at all. The car decides what direction it thinks you want to go, using AI. You can override it’s “thinking” on the touch screen.
Headlights and windshield wipers are also screen-only now.
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gaystation4 · 4 months
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