Elon Musk

so I guessed the stock market would do two dumb things following the news that Tesla had bought some lidar units from a smaller vendor:
- that vendor's stock would jump for the day, then settle back down after people realized it's just a small company and there wasn't that much money involved
- the larger lidar vendors would then go up a couple days later, after people remembered lidar is a thing and some larger companies actually sell a lot of the tech

no way am I going to start regularly day trading but... yup

🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
out on the road today
i saw a deadhead sticker
on a cyber truck
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

(field report c/o t.volk) pic.twitter.com/U9gcKKjaq2

— joel berk (@pfcidb) May 8, 2024

obvious shop

Don’t stare too long or you’ll die of the cringe

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C53WgcFMVNf/?igsh=MXNjcHZ6ZWRrOTYwdw==

(xxp) don't look back you can never look back... because there's no rear visability in these things

my friend has a Tesla and just started using the self-driving and he brought me and another friend in the car while it drove us to a destination 5 minutes away.

it did ok, I never felt my life was in danger, but it definitely got confused once or twice and did stop dead in the middle of a lane because it temporarily didn't know where it was

it did have the wheel nag and he even talked about it but fuckin christ even w/ that I was a little on edge lol.

wish Musk would just go into a coma or something

wow i don’t know how i would handle that situation

“got confused once or twice and did stop dead in the middle of a lane because it temporarily didn't know where it was”

daaaah wes joe biden driving you ppl dont have a problem when it’s him daah

sorry i need a break from like everything

i think stopping in the middle of the road qualifies as putting yr life in danger

well in that moment, not so much as it was a road with no vehicles traveling on it on a weeknight. but certainly if it HAD been a weekend, yeah, different story.

anywho now that I appeased him w/ that I will never get in that car again lol

co-lol

other than the random stopping, I think they're also still good at turning on to wide shared bike/walking lanes parallel to the road

If cyclists and pedestrians don't want to be hit by cars, they should move to states without roads or pavement.

was this posted yet? (insider dunking from former employee)
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1cpyi2j/i_was_in_tesla_design_studio_back_in_20162017_i/

“Typically at Tesla the driver was considered the priority, they would only try to comply with the absolutely necessary standards required for everyone else sharing the road.”

well, yeah

Motorists do not have a constitutional right to not be run over. Seriously look it up guys.

Our cars are returning things to the way the Framers wanted it

tempted to gis “suv horse drawn carriage” but nah

Head of cybertruck production is out:
https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/tesla-head-of-cybertruck-manufacturing-out/

haha good luck to everyone

Tesla’s automotive business, including charging and manufacturing, as well as new product launches, took the biggest hit as Elon Musk appears to be transitioning Tesla away from its EV manufacturing roots to focus on autonomous driving products.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/

...lol

wonder how much extra tesla are having to pay the sacked supercharger team to come back after shitcanning them so ignominiously

elon musk really is the devil in the sense that people have made a deal with him

https://i.imgur.com/3YuyqfD.png

gotta have a based robot in there

Almost forgot not all his tweets are just quote-replying 'True.' or 'Interesting.' to whiny white supremacist grievances and completely made up allegations against political opponents.

concerning!

lol... now who would do such a thing?

Several vehicles at the Tesla factory in Fremont have been vandalized, according to the Fremont Police Department. On Monday at around 2:30 a.m., Fremont PD were dispatched to a location on the 45000 block of Fremont Boulevard where the factory is located.

There were reports, police said, of numerous vehicles having been vandalized. At the scene, officers learned that several parked vehicles had sustained damage to their tires.

Fremont PD is actively investigating the incident.

shoulda just put them all in carwash mode

Ooopsies. Funny thing is, it's not just the ex-employees who would be motivated to do this, but like the entire population of the Bay Area

Yeah, hopefully he puts up a big whiny stink about this and inspires even more people to vandalize teslas

Keep Bender's name out of your fucking mouth, Elon!

lol

The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.

After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk would affirm plans for a massive charging-network expansion.

The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html

that seems less like bad business acumen and more like someone on a bizarre drugsblasted business holiday

I don’t see why there has to be an exclusive binary there

DJP 1 Hunt3r 0

does he actually have a plan here or is he just winging it day to day?

some Roman Roy shit

of course he has a plan he wants a sassy robot

why care about charging business fundamentals when you're fun and mental

tha based business boi

this uh seems very illegal

I’ve been stating this for years 🙃autopilot disables 1 second before impact by design.

Anyone on the internal autopilot team would have known this as far back as 2020. https://t.co/SpMQC7uQx1

— Aiaddict (@Aiaddict1) May 7, 2024

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

this bullshit again huh

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:hvxnbkpkw33nulvd4aqej2nw/bafkreif56hbib4au4ijuttzxpyhzfilh4xzzlnsls4zpyqspnj4mp3awni@jpeg

https://bsky.app/profile/grgd.bsky.social/post/3kt3ntxv2gs2t

mold maybe

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hvxnbkpkw33nulvd4aqej2nw/bafkreihluvvgvplmxzoyxg2b2sxhju3qeqvdnm6xdf35jas42nwpk6p73m@jpeg

that watermelon pic

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fwhats-the-matter-with-you-homer-we-dont-have-any-fruits-or-v0-hecmwydpo2mb1.jpeg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pVq85MDTB5o/hqdefault.jpg

kind of amazed there doesn't seem to be any real oversight going on with Tesla, like if Toyota has a faulty brake or wheel or whatever it's national news, while Teslas just routinely ship out with 5 things pre-broken which may or may not be covered by warranty