Elon Musk

driving makes people psychotic, the famous car is one of the worst things

Yeah more than 20 years ago idiots in Charlottesville, VA were complaining that traffic calming to slow traffic down will “cause accidents”.

driving makes people psychotic

this is a truth bomb. I'd add that driving only a few times a year makes you realize that the act of driving a car is fucking insane, just a lunatic idea that mega-distracted dummies like me are all tooling around in these heavy death machines while having feelings

Cars dehumanize the drivers in everyone's eyes. I had a premonition that you could get widespread support for any kind of mass extermination as long as the victims are behind the wheels of cars.

How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?

feel like Elon has not given so much as a passing thought to this

its not a real car its a shiny object for the media

How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?

feel like Elon has not given so much as a passing thought to this

― frogbs, Thursday, June 9, 2022 11:04 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Elon: Pedestrians? more like pedo-strians

I don't blame anyone for being cynical about this after a decade of functional impunity for Tesla, but I'm telling you: NHTSA is coming for Autopilot/FSD. https://t.co/s94HgKUZsX

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) June 9, 2022

driving makes people psychotic

my last car had a broken horn, and I always asked for it not to be repaired when I got my rego servicing, as I’d found not even being able to honk made me incredibly calmer, more aware, and zen-like behind the wheel.

Drivers do emo-aggro things they would never do out on the sidewalk... the protective steel frame of the vehicle brings out the worst

my last car had a broken horn, and I always asked for it not to be repaired when I got my rego servicing, as I’d found not even being able to honk made me incredibly calmer, more aware, and zen-like behind the wheel.

There's a relatively well known bumper sticker that reads "HORN BROKEN - WATCH FOR FINGER".

i think i've used my horn about 10 times, total, in my life. i used it this morning, by chance. i was just driving down the middle lane, minding my own, when i noticed a line of cars in the turn lane, waiting behind someone snoozing at a red light. most people here are too polite to honk, but in the last few places i've lived people would have performing an improvised 4 to 5 car "honk symphony" in this situation. it would be enough to completely annihilate someone's day - "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!!?! IT'S GREEN!!! THERE'S A LINE BEHIND YOU, COME ON!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!! HYOOOONK!!". it was nice and quiet in the streets of st. louis. so as i passed by this non-situation, i gave the lightest lil' honda fit "toot toot", and was pleased to see in my rear-view mirror that the sleepy driver finally made the turn and the rest of the line was moving up, not just in this lane, but in life

^^Lyrics to Bruce Springbean - "Lil' Honda Toot-toot".

lol, fucked up your artist name

Springbean I can deal with. It's when people call me Springsteen that really irritates me!

it’s really satisfying to do the rapid staccato “beep beep beep beep beep beep”, not as much a fan of the standard honk or (the worst) leaning on the horn in a hot rage

lol Karl that is a very accurate description of driving in Chicago. I swear you could get honked at there if you weren't already moving when the light turned green if they didn't just try to pass you instead

it's basically like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2vejhdm8lo

I barely register horns as a sign of danger anymore, since drivers seem to use them primarily to express annoyance.

i get irrationally embarrassed any time horns are involved even when theyre necessary. i've taken to flashing my brights whenever someone ahead of me is sleeping on a red light. which almost certainly does nothing, partic in the daytime

you just gotta give em a lil toot toot nbd

i fuckin hate cars and traffic and as i've aged i'm constantly freaked out about how unnatural it is for humans to be hurtling through space in these death machines at speeds (and i'm talking as low as 30 mph here) that we just shouldnt be doing. now that i'm essentially a daily microdoser (abuser) of delta 8 mommy weed my patience behind the wheel has increased, but my phear of being murdered by another driver--whether via impact or a road rage incident involving a freeedom tool--has as well. luckily thanks to the nature of my work, proximity to our meager public transit and my bike i've cut my time in a car down to levels i would have never thought possible.

i want to revise my earlier post. i said "i noticed a line of cars in the turn lane, waiting behind someone snoozing at a red light." it was hopefully clear from the context of the rest of my traffic report (in the Elon Musk thread), but this car that i lightly honked at was snoozing at a _green light_. it wasn't just that they could make a right on a red and that they weren't doing it -- this light was green.

also p embarrassed by how aggro I was behind the wheel in my 20s-early 30s. which tbf compared to Atl traffic ca 2022 was fairly negligible. even so it’s kind of amazing there aren’t more murders by car every day

crazy thing about cars is their immediate danger and warping of human psychology isnt even the worst part about them compared to the societal and environmental impacts of pollution global warming suburbanization alienation increased policing and so forth

lol yes same. I typed red but meant green

cars and drivers are like warped human minds wrapped in a mysterious passenger cabin inside a beautiful, best in class exterior

i always say that

someone needs to make a magazine for these cars and their driver, asking them both where are they going

this is like low-tier friedman now, where you just yell at passing cars and ask their drivers where they are going

where are you going oh to work ok haha yeah me too man my job is having opinions

in a flat world, we all have opinions, it's just that some of them are worth more than others. i spoke with one local driver to find out why:

"where are you going?!?"
"whaaat? i had my window up!"
"where is your car going?" i asked
"no, i don't have any money!" he said as his window smoothly closed.

call them Distributed Opinion Dollars!

that's joe biden's economy for you

someone needs to make a magazine for these cars and their driver, asking them both where are they going

― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, June 9, 2022 2:37 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Omg, this is bringing back memories of my dad writing joke letters into Car and Driver magazine in the early 80s, which apparently was a common thing for the readership then. My Dad signed one as “Ralph Nader” and my recollection is it claimed he bought his suits at Kmart and liked their chili dogs. It got printed in the magazine and Nader threatened the magazine with libel so they had to print a retraction that it was not in fact Ralph Nader.

lmao

It was too late though, the Kmart suit + chili dog rumor had already spread far beyond the Car and Driver readership

He was a dad and so were his jokes.

PBKR that is amazing

Important Correction: It was corn dogs, not chili dogs.

Lol yeah that's hilarious.

designing the autopilot program to shut off less than a second before impact so your company can deny it was the cause of the impact is simply epic pic.twitter.com/Ur4OXHmMXU

— jeff dirt (@muttgomery) June 10, 2022

“your honour when i said full self-driving i had my fingers crossed so it didn’t count”

a self driving Tesla is going to have to literally kill a conservative justice before anything happens to this doofus

lmao all hands with elon musk this week

elon doesn’t understand the difference between gender and sex, so let me explain:

gender is a person’s internal perception of themselves, whereas sex is what a trans woman is having with his wife right now https://t.co/04IMgTI4Th

— ellie (@misandryinc) June 12, 2022

wow lol

its weird that the entire right is using "what is a woman?" as some sort of gotcha question when it's like...clearly a made up concept. you don't have woman birds or man birds. lady birds perhaps. but a "woman" is strictly a human thing! we know about the whole gender spectrum in part because it exists in other mammals!!

dogs are boys and cats are girls iirc

a lady condor just had a baby without a man condor, they're not needed anymore

someone from venus