Elon Musk

I was freaked out when the driver seat moved in reverse when I placed the car in reverse. That is a serious glitch. I will only be happy if I get a new Model 3 or a refund now. Please help @elonmusk No one should feel afraid of their car.

— LaLa (@McTweeterific) August 31, 2018

I have a 2010 Charger and apparently there was a minor problem with the airbag that caused some of them to inadvertently deploy. I think there was like 5 instances of this happening among 1.3 million affected cars, with no reported injuries. Dodge apparently tracked down everyone who owned one - somehow they found me, even though I bought it secondhand and moved twice since, I wound up getting a phone call offering to fix it for free, so I figured why not. This is not a cheap repair, by the way. I can only imagine how Tesla might handle a situation like this, given all the random faulty parts and the apparent shoddiness of the car's OS.

lol I was drunk last night (shouldn’t have said “aspie” btw, sorry) today I agree this is a very funny nightmare

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 12:50 PM (five years ago)

did this ever happen? the first few posts itt are shot through with heart-piercing innocence

So many ppl have made this exact joke over the years it’s kinda wild that now it’s here everyone just calls it “the elton musk toy sub pedo controversy” https://t.co/ek6HLJPpXa

— Tyto Pollens #FBP🌮 (@TytoPollens) July 16, 2018

lol yes exactly

Azealia Banks teed this one up perfectly too

There’s some good stuff in that twitter thread mookieproof posted. Cars are incredibly complex and the fact that the auto industry can turn out millions that are (mostly) reliable and safe and without killing and maiming the people building them and doing so at a cost that stilll seems insanely cheap given the complexity. That musk wants to toss out 100 years of accumulated knowledge and best practice is a disappointing as it is unsurprising.

Elon Musk sent me an email last week. In it, he accused a British cave rescuer of being "a child rapist" who took a "12-year-old bride." He didn't provide any evidence of those claims.

He also called me a "fucking asshole."https://t.co/EIAjzEJXiY

— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) September 4, 2018

rarely in the course of human history has anyone been So Very Online

So Very Ondrugs

1) quadrupling down on a bizarre and completely unfounded claim
2) "people are saying" things that no one is actually saying and are demonstrably untrue
3) "attached, see this letter of a person praising me"

hmmmmm

Elon's Trumpin'

speaking of underrated aerosmith b-sides

I think I might be rooting for his life to be absolutely ruined almost as much as Trump's at this point.

IN the comments on that tweet someone points out that in the UK the libel laws mean spreading someone elses libel makes that person liable also, is that true!?

I hope Tesla survives his mismanagement and solves their production and design problems. Their firmware may be a disaster, but their drive train seems pretty decent. The more all-electric vehicles get into the market, the better.

Whenever I see Musk he reminds me of a humanoid assembled from meat, or perhaps a shapeshifter holding human form through considerable effort.

xp - ideally, he somehow loses his stake in Tesla and it goes on to be an enormous success without him as he has to watch by the wayside. Then he blows up in the first SpaceX launch with a human on board.

teslas life or death prob not gonna have much impact on the adoption of electric cars

I haven't been convinced yet that electric cars are a sufficient strategy for lowering emissions anyway

I have a friend who swore by a weekend Tesla driving experience, to which I responded: who the fuck cares? Luxury cars will always be luxurious. Right now I get John DeLorean vibes from Musk. Let me know when he perfects longterm energy storage and I'll be impressed. As for electric cars, companies like Toyota and VW are going to run with his ideas and make them cheaper, recognizing that the only luxury people really care is massive mileage in a low-cost car. You know, like regular cars.

Come on - Musk obviously has his faults, but I'd take him over pretty much any other celebrity CEO dickweed. If you think that other companies would be scrambling to build electric cars without Tesla, you are kidding yourselves. And the things that he's chosen to work on (electric cars, solar power, batteries, space travel) are so much more inspiring than the usual Valley gadgetry and eyeball-farming.

Oh, all agreed! I just expect others to take his ideas mainstream and leave him in the dust, charging things.

lol @ VW mention in your previous post

you do know what that automaker is most recently famous for, right?

musk built his business on government vouchers for low/zero emission vehicles, california has mandated that a big % of vehicles sold there be zero emission and so forth, he didnt invent the electric car market there are much larger forces at work, and fuck being inspired by some jerkoff ceo especially one who is actively attempting to undermine public transportation just like every other car building industrialist in the history of the world

public transportation aka the thing that actually reduces pollution

+hes a huge asshole boss who got mad at one of his employees for attending the birth of their child and has broken laws trying to prevent unionization of his workforce, he sucks and is ridiculous and has some savior complex which manifests as building cars and rockets which is just plain dumb

otm. he's an extremely bad person.

Let's try not to conflate Elon Musk and electric vehicles, ok? Musk is an asshole who abuses his workers and others. Electric vehicles may be marginal when compared to public transportation as a means to reduce overall carbon emissions, but they still provide measurable benefits compared to personal vehicles powered directly by fossil fuels.

xpost I mentioned VW because, despite their diesel scandal, I thought they were actually still doing pretty well, but mostly they were one of the companies ( I thought) that gave a set date for producing an all-electric fleet (2030?). I think they're doing pretty well in Asia, too. Maybe I was thinking of Volvo? Anyway, pretend I said Volvo. Regardless, as all these much bigger car companies push toward electric, and start producing more, and cheaper, and more efficient entry level electric cars, the novelty of Tesla will fade. All along it's always been about battery and storage, that's where the revolution is, finding ways and places to store all that renewable solar and wind to use at will.

I thought this twitter thread making fun of his bust of a Tesla press conference pitching a hyper loop shuttle to Dodgers stadium was pretty good. Maybe I first saw it on this thread? Anyway, it's good stuff.

well I guess I know what I’m doing tonight https://t.co/dxBDC0Zt2M

— erinspace (@erinscafe) August 28, 2018

Come on - Musk obviously has his faults, but I'd take him over pretty much any other celebrity CEO dickweed.

That's like being the least-bad European dictator of the '30s.

I know it's silly of me, but I just keep thinking, what if Musk is right about this guy? We'd never hear the end of it. He might even be right completely by coincidence. But I think the real reason it's nagging at me is because accusing someone of marrying a 12-year-old girl, and doing so based on absolutely no evidence, is so completely insane that my mind recoils at the idea.

IN the comments on that tweet someone points out that in the UK the libel laws mean spreading someone elses libel makes that person liable also, is that true!?

Essentially, yes. One famous case was the wife of the Yorkshire Ripper - one paper printed an allegation that she knew about the murders before he was arrested and a bunch of other papers followed up with reports spreading the claim. She successfully sued the first paper and collected something like twelve out-of-court settlements from the others iirc because they would also have lost had she taken them to court.

Contextualising it as ‘Elon Musk has made defamatory and baseless allegations against X’ is the way outlets would normally report without running as great a risk.

The jurisdiction he chooses to sue in will be interesting. It looks like it will be the US, which is arguably harder to win in but opens the way to larger punitive damages.

But I think the real reason it's nagging at me is because accusing someone of marrying a 12-year-old girl, and doing so based on absolutely no evidence, is so completely insane that my mind recoils at the idea.

so

the diver is 63 now, and his wife reports her age as 40

Musk has it that the diver lived / travelled to elsewhere in Thailand for 30 to 40 years before moving to paedotown and marrying her, which he must have done 28 years ago, if she was 12

therefore he has been going to Thailand for sex trafficking since he was minus 5 years old


Musk should fire his lawyers and get Giuliani on the case imo

My prediction: Bought by GM and left to simultaneously twist in the wind and rot on the vine like Saturn. All the IP is used to make electric Buicks for China.

xpost: Musk described Unsworth as single, so presumably he's not saying that Unsworth married the woman he's with now (who he's not married to) when she was 12.

okay so he’s saying Musk stole someone else’s child bride, and is therefore a homewrecker as well as someone who’s been fucking 12-year-olds since before he was born

story checks out

I have a friend who swore by a weekend Tesla driving experience, to which I responded: who the fuck cares? Luxury cars will always be luxurious. Right now I get John DeLorean vibes from Musk. Let me know when he perfects longterm energy storage and I'll be impressed. As for electric cars, companies like Toyota and VW are going to run with his ideas and make them cheaper, recognizing that the only luxury people really care is massive mileage in a low-cost car. You know, like regular cars.

This is pretty otm. I know two people with Teslas, they're undoubtedly very cool cars and its hard to drive them without getting the feeling that they're gamechangers. But I know the way the free market works - every legitimately great thing about these cars are going to get co-opted by more experienced and capable automakers in a few years, without the hefty price tag. My brother rented one for a weekend to drive to Ohio - we spent half an hour checking out all the neato features, like the big touch screen and the ability to park it with your phone and the way it detects your presence and shutters up when you're not near. Then like two hours into the trip a tire popped and it wound up costing a grand total of $1200 to get replaced. So, that's pretty much the Tesla experience.

$1200! jesus

No, Tesla

o god

Will be on @JoeRogan at 9:30pm Pacific on Thursday

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 5, 2018

teslas are hella ugly look like an unfinished nissan, logo looks like it was drawn on a jr high desk

also "tesla"

haha right

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiK6lInU0AADnRf.jpg

let's do it and be legends

just a tiny black tshirt guy living his best life

I find maverick scientists like tesla + faraday quite fascinating, this numpt has just put batteries on wheels as far as I can see!

teslas are hella ugly look like an unfinished nissan, logo looks like it was drawn on a jr high desk

yea I never really notice one until I see the logo. which looks like an IUD. someone should really point that out to Elon.

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/180724-paypal-mafia-elon-musk-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1

a funny thing about the tesla worship among this generation of billionaires is theyre all total edisons