Elon Musk

A journalist just asked me if I wanted to send them a recording of the all hands with musk tomorrow “off the record”.

in hilo i now see multiple teslas literally every time i leave the house. may have been a "libertarian" influx lately (guys in search of compound space etc) but probably most of these are driven by well-off liberals who wanted something cooler than a leaf. (the one person i actually know with one is a retired public schoolteacher, so i can't rly be less than nice about it.)

Both of the two coworkers I know that have recently bought Teslas are blue lives matter cops' kids who constantly harp on "Biden's gas prices". Insignificant sample size sure, but hard to imagine these would be the Tesla buying types even three years ago.

I see a couple of Teslas every day, one of them is the Model X SUV that remains the ugliest vehicle on the road and another is a regular S with CRYPTO vanity plates. Haven't seen that one in a couple of weeks so it might be getting repoed.

I’ve never seen one either. Maybe I’d know if one hit me.

Along with the Range Rovers, they are the bane of the carpool line at my son's school.

they definitely have the highest percentage of vanity plates of any vehicle make

pour one out for the Teslas silently driving themselves back to the dealership in the wake of crypto crashing

A journalist just asked me if I wanted to send them a recording of the all hands with musk tomorrow “off the record”.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, June 15, 2022 3:27 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

cant believe max would do that

I see many more of them now, and the racial makeup of those driving them is pretty even in my majority minority city.

Like any very expensive thing, they are a status symbol, little more.

I will say that the first time I saw one, though, I was living in Chico, CA, and some asshole Tesla owner parked ACROSS TWO SPACES at the local grocery store that was always packed because it had the best quality/price ratio. I left a note on it that said, "LEARN HOW TO PARK YOUR FANCY CAR."

figure it’s just a matter of time til I see one modded out to roll coal

guys, the libertarians owning teslas have been there the whole time. utopian tech nerd overlap

The first Tesla I saw was parked in a friend's neighbor's driveway in Berkeley and had a bumper sticker that said "this car runs on coal"

3% of California's power comes from coal, but ok.

I don't know, if these people are the jackasses that would normally buy a giant land rover, and instead are buying an electric car? I guess that's a good thing overall

plus they're more likely to burn to death in a Tesla because they can't open the door

guys, the libertarians owning teslas have been there the whole time. utopian tech nerd overlap

― mh, Wednesday, June 15, 2022 3:56 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they were the first buyers, sure, but it's like an expensive prius now in california, i.e. totally mainstream family car.

pour one out for the Teslas silently driving themselves back to the dealership in the wake of crypto crashing

:)

A single tear coming from a headlight.

libertarian Wall -E

I wear headphones when walking so I have no way of even suspecting if a car is a tesla

very much enjoyed dlh’s little sketch tho

They are one of the most popular cars here in Vancouver. A lot of older guys mostly I think. My friend bought one when he retired and theres like 5 on his block. First time I was in it he wanted to demonstrate the self-drive thing, although we were screaming at him not to. The car immediately sped up to 20km over the speed limit (this was in a place where deer regularly leap out onto the road). When we got to our destination his seat automatically started tipping him out the door, which had the effect of crushing my foot, because I was jammed in the cramped back seat. I actually thought it was going to break bones but in the end it was ok probably only because I had boots on.
More seriously, he couldn't even find the proper version of Daddy Cool by Boney M on the special Tesla streaming radio thing. Only a 2000s remix. Crap car.

lmao

xxp they’re the ones that accelerate toward you when you’re using a crosswalk

the guy I’m acquainted with who has a Tesla used to have an override installed on the a/v console in the middle of the dashboard in a prior car that’d allow it to play video while the car was moving

we used to joke that some day he’d end up flying off the interstate while watching dave matthews live at the gorge

Musk bearish on Twitter.

Tesla founder Elon Musk said the key to his electric automaker's value is whether it can achieve self-driving technology, adding that the firm would be "worth basically zero" without it. pic.twitter.com/PAxBAHPv3k

— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) June 16, 2022

they really did miss the window where they could have just licensed/sold all the baseline electric car stuff they were ahead on by now, huh?

idk there a bunch of companies that do that sort of thing, teslas trying to make cars, take on the big guys

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51JYWW7A9ZL._SY445_.jpg

das alotta sauce baby

I'm so old, I can remember when Tesla's pitch for the $100k Roadster was that it would fund a Model S that started at $50k, which in turn would fund a Model 3 that started at $35k.

The cheapest Tesla you can buy today is $48,490 out the door.
https://t.co/pKV0WvkDNv

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) June 16, 2022

imagine having 100k to spend on a car and thinking "im going to buy a tesla" absolutely freakin psychotic

I got to ride in a Rivian last week, an electric truck which has a lot of the same cool features the Tesla has but with a much better interior & a way more intuitive center console. it's also free of all the glitches and quirks that Teslas have. it occurred to me that Tesla is in the Sega Dreamcast phase, I don't know how they'll compete with the big boys when all that technology starts coming standard. they kinda suck at making cars.

yep

https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me

written in 2006

$35,000 in 2006 is worth $50,745 today

i don't follow elon's predictions too closely but it seems like he was saying similar stuff in 2008:

.@elonmusk discussing electric vehicles in 2008 as tesla was nearly out of cash.
pic.twitter.com/q41Tw9bfx9

— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) October 26, 2021

35K in 2008 is $47.5 today

Our Tesla owning neighbor recently added an electric Porsche to his fleet. He's still got the Tesla, but honestly, if you can afford a car that *starts* at $50k, let alone higher (the Porsche is iirc something like $90k), then I don't see *why* you would go Tesla when you could go with any other luxury car. Like, two or three times this week I've seen one of the new electric Mustangs. Looks like they start at around $43k. A few months ago I saw an Aston Martin SUV (base is $176,000). Those who want something more modest seem to be leaning Nissan Leaf or Chevy Bolt, which are in the ... $30k+ range?

One of the most fervent Tesla proselytizers I've talked with stressed the pioneering, market penetrating power of the Tesla *brand*, which he likened to Apple. But what Musk seems to be doing, as far as this armchair hater can tell, is working overtime to harm the brand while failing to scale up the quality or affordability of the cars themselves. That seems like a poor strategy. Like, what was that comedian's hot off the presses take on Dave Chappelle? "Chappelle, do you know what comes up when you Google your name, bro? That’s the legacy?" It's getting to the point where the last thing anyone thinks of when they hear the name Tesla is the car, and the first is Elon Musk, and what a douchebag clown he is.

funny detail that a lot of the tech that tesla and now other electric car makers are putting in their cars is stuff that people actively dont want and/or is just dangerous

The only way to know for sure is to make fart noises an optional feature on every car and see how many people bite.

Musk should announce hologram truck nuts.

waiting for the reveal that the entire Musk/Tesla empire has been a long con operation by the Big Three, hoping to ruin the reputation of electric cars by association with bad build quality, self-crashing autopilot, and an omnipresent douchebag

35K in 2008 is $47.5 today

― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, June 16, 2022 11:57 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah he was still saying it would cost 35k when they launched it five years ago tho, iirc they did sell a handful of them at that price but quickly raised it

bad build quality, self-crashing autopilot, and an omnipresent douchebag

lol these clauses can both be describing Musk!

the fact that screens have become such a lux symbol in cars just sucks dont we get enough of these things

https://i0.wp.com/evtak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/motor1-1.jpg

saw a study the other day that a driver fucking with the car screen has a way slower reaction time than a drunk

still buttons on the steering wheel why isnt there a screen wtf

should make just the entire interior a big continuous screen

instead of buying a car just look at computer

those seats look really comfortable though and with the blue lights if i took a long drive in it i would probably fall asleep

You guys are actually making me want to buy a car.

play a soothing youtube on all my mercedes eqs screens falling asleep and driving into the ocean