Elon Musk

“i use cruise control basically every time i get on the highway hate having to keep track of whether im speeding”

can confirm the subie eyesight shit makes hiway driving much nicer. you still have to be 100% in control ime, it just means you don’t have to take your eyes off the road for speedo or wonder about how fast you’re going. you wont go over x mph, if the cars afore you slow down, so do you, and if they speed up, so will you, but not over x mph. You can just steer and navigate traffic and brake when you need to do. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don’t like the steering thing that bumps you inside the road lines so i turn that off.

We rented a Mazda CX-5 thing last year - sort of a crossover small SUV - to drive out to Zion

At one point on the drive home, we locked in with two other CX-5's, using the radar-guided cruise control.. so when the first car was able to speed up, the others did as well.. it was really fucking weird but kinda cool

the last trip on the interstate that I didn't use cruise control on was when I was being shady, shadowed a semi trailer in my circa 2010ish hybrid car, and managed to eke out an extra 10mpg

Hunt3r, what you describe is exactly what I’m talking about— it makes highway driving, particularly for long stretches with little congestion, an absolutely different and I think less physically taxing activity. You still have to be alert mentally and have your eyes on the road, obviously.

to divert away from cartalk for a while

Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla are being sued for $258 billion over claims they are part of a racketeering scheme to back the cryptocurrency Dogecoin https://t.co/HgvMaYpV7F

— Bloomberg (@business) June 16, 2022

feel like yeah, he absolutely was manipulating the price of Dogecoin for personal gain, but idk if that's technically a crime

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump

webistics

Pump and dump chump

musks doge situation def seemed very shady at the time

Everything this motherfucker touches seems shady.

im just a simple poster idk what this case needs to go forward but could be pretty interesting if it does

*to the tune of Pumps and a Bump*

Pump an-a dump/ pump an-a dump/ elon musk finna pump an-a dump

All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom
And a poom-poom, just pump and dump

Teslas Running Autopilot Involved in at Least 273 Crashes in Past Year

The new data set stems from a federal order last summer requiring automakers to report crashes involving driver assistance to assess whether the technology presented safety risks. Tesla‘s vehicles have been found to shut off the advanced driver-assistance system, Autopilot, around one second before impact, according to the regulators.

Pump-de-Dump doop bodu
Dump-de-Pump doop bop

Interesting to see even the hacker news set worrying that people will think they like musk if they drive a Tesla https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31771367

elon really fucked up lol

Smog's "I Was a Stranger" about Elon's arrival on Mars

Kind of wonder if Tesla is in too big to fail territory no matter what Elon does or how much of a scam Tesla is finally revealed to be. How many pension funds and 401ks are invested in it at this point?

Might as well confess at this point that my wife owns and drives a Tesla, and we both love it. I'm probably the only person on this thread who likes them, although I agree that Musk is an idiot.

friend of mine recently bought one

as insufferable as Elon is, it was a pleasure to drive in

the roof is made of glass!

Kind of wonder if Tesla is in too big to fail territory no matter what Elon does or how much of a scam Tesla is finally revealed to be. How many pension funds and 401ks are invested in it at this point?

― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, June 17, 2022 1:10 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This was my point a couple of weeks ago. It would have to be something criminal and even then I'm just not sure our system is going to punish a rich guy like Musk. I would love to see it though, I hate this guy :(

too big to fail is not the same as too rich to be prosecuted. you need to be close to a monopoly to be too big to fail, and tesla have a lot of competitors (who are rapidly catching up). tesla stock could absolutely crash in a bad way, or at least back to a realistic valuation

elon musk will never suffer because of the judicial system tho

yeah companies like tesla do from time to time fail

I hope Tesla fails. I hate the way their cars look, I hate the way their owners act, and I hate Elon Musk and his racist apartheid company.

x-post to anagram, just curious: I think I've mentioned before this strange Tesla owner thing I've noticed, where they all (the three or four I know) love their car while simultaneously admitting it's nowhere near as nice or reliable or well-made as comparable/previous luxury cars. Was this at all your experience?

Well we've never had a comparable size/price car before so I have nothing to compare it to really. My wife is the driver, I'm just a passenger/navigator and I just like the look & feel of it. With petrol prices going through the roof I think we did the right thing in buying it when we did. Obviously there are other EVs out there but the Tesla just seemed like the right choice for us idk. We also test drove a Volvo EV but it was kind of a boring experience compared to the Tesla.

No farting.

driving a car should be a boring experience in my humble opinion

Pontiac - “Real Driving Excitement” begs to differ

Driving excitement is meant to replace our early human excitements, like chasing wild game across dangerous fields and bravely growing wheat, or making cave paintings

Only now the excitement is more about how to connect Bluetooth

well i hope that tesla meets the same fate as pontiac

Does Tesla have a good slogan? Maybe they could use a good slogan to turn things around

"Build Tough. Fart Tough"

"ride free" is their motto! that's even better

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/technology/spacex-employees-fired-musk-letter.html

“The letter, solicitations and general process made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views,” Ms. Shotwell wrote. “We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism.”

i thought this guy was all about free speech :\

indeed who has time for overreaching activism when you are engaged in the important work of frivolous space travel

"ride free by becoming an indentured servant on mars with a competitive interest rate"

Pontiac - “Real Driving Excitement” begs to differ

or rather: we just slap our logo on Toyota Matrixes now lol

vibe twins, yeah! greatest fricking car ever made, reliability of a toyota with the lol factor/cheapness/no one will ever bother jacking this steez of a pontiac 💟

oh right teslas. yeah, my hippie college techbro town is crawling with them. aiui one of the lesser musks lives here, i reckon he gets a family discount and hands them out to people so they'll be friends with him.

Lesser Musks sounds like a seldom visited archipelago.

someone leaked screenshots from our slack, and now people are getting harassed by qanon types, great stuff.

(because

I voted for Mayra Flores – first time I ever voted Republican.

Massive red wave in 2022.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2022

not that it matters but I’d bet he didn’t vote

Yup

x-post to anagram, just curious: I think I've mentioned before this strange Tesla owner thing I've noticed, where they all (the three or four I know) love their car while simultaneously admitting it's nowhere near as nice or reliable or well-made as comparable/previous luxury cars. Was this at all your experience?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, June 17, 2022 8:14 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well we've never had a comparable size/price car before so I have nothing to compare it to really.

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, June 17, 2022 8:58 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

seems like this is pretty common ppl who were not previously lux car buyers drawn to tesla because they wanted an ev and then being like hey this is really nice, next might want to *whispering* check out a bmw

Yeah, fwiw the dudes I know with Teslas mostly came *from* German luxury cars *to* Tesla.