Elon Musk

think we need to find out why the little frog was trying to steal his own car.

Crap, I pre ordered the new Douglas Coupland last week. Wonder if I can cancel

lmao car software having easter eggs is really powerfully dumb shit

it's a CAR, elon

its probably been mentioned before but one of the absolute dumbest things about the Tesla is that it has its own Mario Kart spin-off game in the center console controlled by the steering wheel...okay, cool novelty, something to do while at a charging station, the idiotic part is when you play it ACTUALLY TURNS THE WHEELS which I am 100% sure was one of Elon's dumbass ideas, like he must've loved the idea of people seeing the tires turn so they could say "Look! He's playing video games!" never once thinking about how 15 minutes of that will create a bald spot on your $600 tire

I was in a used bookstore last month that had 15 copies of Generation X, I wondered when was the last time it had been read for any reason aside from maybe a college class.

Douglas Coupland, Claire Boucher....how many others will fall for this fraud?

Meanwhile, my norcal roads are choked with chodes driving with Autopilot turned on. Hope me and mine don't end up as Tesla ML training data.

two questions:

1. Is Douglas Coupland widely known as a dumbass?
2. Is this the worst thing Guardian ever published?

Ha, just read that Douglas Coupland article, has he always been such an abysmal writer? has he always been so profoundly thick while imagining he's very clever indeed?

Never read any of his famous novels, they must be better than this.

sort of wish someone musters up the strength to answer this screed point by point.

ack I confused Douglas Coupland with Douglas Rushkoff

his novels aren't much better...

Is this still the article from 2013 we’re talking about?

No, I think it was just published this weekend?

Oh god! I clicked the link the other day, saw “Elon musk, 2013” and thought it was the date of the article, rather than the photo credit. My media literacy is declining

Coupland's grift for the past few years has been selling public artworks to developers in Vancouver. The developers get generous zoning exemptions or relief on development fees for including the artworks in their developments and Coupland gets a massive payday. Here's his latest. And here's the background to how the entire building was evicted last year to facilitate this renovation. Some tenants had lived there for almost 30 years.

if that Musk article didn't already convince me was a piece of shit...

I accepted delivery of the Model Y. It’s not without its QC issues but it’s one of the better ones I’ve seen so I accepted delivery.

Panel alignment all around is pretty poor. I have a droopy drivers door, the lift gate isn’t centered, and the panel gaps on it are huge/uneven. pic.twitter.com/dwEg9xWu7U

— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) September 6, 2021

Also, to those that mocked me for my mismatched aftermarket bumper color on my Model 3, this is on a brand new car straight from Tesla…. pic.twitter.com/nQed4cYqv4

— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) September 6, 2021

"one of the better ones" jfc people set such a low bar

ya car worse than a hyundai

Last tweet: @meghanntate’s Genesis GV80 puts the interior of the Model Y to shame. Everything is SUBSTANTIALLY nicer. Like, you’d never guess these cars are even remotely the same price point. That said, her power train is not even remotely responsive/fast. pic.twitter.com/cfkL7i221a

— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) September 6, 2021

the thing about power is past a certain point you cant actually use it, unless you go to the racetrack and most people do not do that, and cars are generally so powerful these days, so if you want to spend a bunch of money on a car why not get one thats actually nice, one from germany

i mean if you think that genesis interior is nice you should check out a mercedes

because it is about their identity as a specific type of cool guy, not just showing how rich they are

saw a post about a guy who got rear-ended and they totaled the new, still not paid-for tesla because a lot of it is made of aluminum? and the poster was still a big tesla fan? but i lost it

because it is about their identity as a specific type of cool guy, not just showing how rich they are

― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, September 7, 2021 11:08 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah true, its sad they dont want a german car cause its too ostentatious, but people who actually like cars like german cars, because theyre good cars, turns out the tesla guys are more concerned with image, weird...

*obvs most german car buyers are also very concerned with image but the germans do go to great lengths to make "drivers cars" that are good

I drove a V8 for a while and the power was kinda fun to have but it turns out when you get rid of it and start driving a Ford Fusion you don't really miss it

I'll give Tesla that, they're stupidly fast and perform pretty well on the racetrack. That said they move like a rollercoaster and if the driver is being an asshole you can get pretty queasy when they stomp on the gas. idk what I'd ever use that for these days other than to impress some rude teens at a stoplight

tesla has an insane amount of power but its a cheat cause electric motors deliver 100% torque immediately where gas engines have to rev up, its not some brilliant engineering on their part its just a fact of the technology they use, and theres so much more to performance than just raw power, steering weight distribution breaking etc, a company like tesla just isnt going to be able to get those things as right as ones who know things about making cars, same goes for all the luxury design and build stuff too

some of that is demonstrated in this video, apologies for posting lame car guys lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pu9046wX9g

if you dont feel like watching they liked the tesla but the handling was kind of off for a performance car, and the bmw which is slowest in a straight line of the 3 cars had the fastest track time because its just a good car, the audi is a very nice fast car but is just not as drivey as the bmw, the rs3 is kind of silly cause youre making a car that has track speed but is too fwd heavy to have track handling, better off just getting the s3 for zipping around town, someone buy me an s3 thanks

with those 3 cars next to each other the tesla design looks so unfinished, looks like a clay model! theres no detail, a sick parody of minimalism

The interior is garbage too, every time I get in one I feel like I’m inside a model car. Even my old Ford Escort was more comfortable than this

they are just not good at making cars, and the ultimate offense... they are not car guys

lagººn when did you start being a car guy? i am interested in this heel turn.

like many horrible developments i think youtube was mostly to blame, tho i have always had a soft spot for nice cars, like i owned a couple german cars before i really was interested in cars, which is ironic because now that i am a car guy i drive a subaru outback, and to be clear objectively cars are terrible things

they are pretty compelling as design/engineering/cultural objects thooo

driving a nice car is nice too

if i ever become a big city/good job man again i will buy myself an s3 as a a treat

more like lagOOOOn

dont want a german car cause its too ostentatious, but people who actually like cars like german cars, because theyre good cars

I drive a Mercedes now, bought used from a guy who was younger than the car.

Always hated the stereotypical German car driver too, but man. There is some weight to the hype. They're really good cars!

My favorite part is that I can say out loud "Open Butthole" and nothing happens.

(And I usually say that out loud when a BMW driver won't let me in. Now those guys are the real enemies.)

you get it

will be interesting to see what happens to tesla as more direct competitors from real car companies come online, interesting volvo launched a whole new brand maybe trying to avoid ecar buyers aforementioned hangups about luxury cars, still think the most likely trajectory for tesla is a major accounting scandal followed by being absorbed by a big company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P75LSbn4ocw

btw did not know teslas dont have a driver side gage cluster, everything is on the center screen, you have to look over to see your speed! just awful

You don't need to know your speed when the car is doing the driving!

lol, btw thought this was correct re level 2 self driving https://jalopnik.com/lots-of-people-seem-to-completely-misunderstand-the-aut-1847541014

it makes a lot more sense for a computer to be a back safety mechanism for a human than the other way around

I remember the urban tales of people thinking cruise-control meant auto-pilot and crashing their RV while stepping into the back for a second.

that happened in anchorman 2 iirc

I didn't see Anchorman 2. I drive a Mercedes.

people who know how to live

more like lagOOOOn

― shitbird in prospect (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, September 7, 2021 1:32 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

🙏🙏🙏🙏

my old boss had a series of A4s (had an old one when i started, got a new one, then a few years later she ran over something and totaled it, got another new one) and tbh i did love riding with her in spite of myself. still driving my corolla until at least 2030 though :)

a4 wagon is so classic, my dad crashed mine ffs, only available in the allroad configuration now in this god forsaken country