Elon Musk

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lol the guy who says "that happens to all cars" is a suspended account now

Here, you take the wheel.

some dumbass in that (two year old) thread also posted articles of other cars recalled for steering wheel "coming off" issues to point out that it happens to other cars, but it's like, no, you moron, THOSE CALLS WERE RECALLED, Tesla wasn't!

*cars

There is a Permanently Attached luxury steering wheel option, just add $4400 to the MSRP

Tesla, hire this man

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/87c8f74ea777deab505c309892933de151601bf8/67_20_606_363/master/606.jpg?width=620&quality=85&fit=max&s=f8d4012c93ac9460cc24bf1409e67266

This just gets better... Teslas Can Be Tricked Into Stopping Too Early by Bigger Stop Signs

Twitter user Cowcumber discovered this when their Tesla came to a stop significantly shorter than it should have, but only on particular exit ramps. After pondering the problem, Cowcumber noticed that stop signs on exit ramps appeared to be larger than signs in their neighborhood, so they broke out a tape measure to confirm.

As they suspected, the stop sign on the exit ramp is, in fact, significantly larger. Many of these signs measure just over 48 inches tall, which is around 60 percent larger than the 30-inch signs in their neighborhood.

"60 percent larger to the camera gets interpreted as 60 percent closer?" asks the Tesla owner on Twitter. "I still have the slow creep problem here [...] and it'll come to a complete stop while sitting in the near lanes even if no cars are around!"

It's Friday, so .. more #TeslaFireIssues updates in this ongoing Tesla 'safety' thread

Example no. 346: a controlled test, at low speed

Remember what I said about a Tesla scraping the sides or bottom. And your Tesla is .. (well, you know, 20x or 30x more often than other EV's) pic.twitter.com/mwNHn4OEYE

— Ton Aarts (@ton_aarts) August 26, 2022

Controlled test ... did they set off the explosion/fire, too?

youll just have to "do your own research"

I guess it looks like it just blew up, then. Sounds about right.

you can read the thread if you want

i talked to the village tesla doctor, and they told me that if the car catches on fire when it's upside down, stop making it go upside down

i proceeded to tell some ruffians around the corner to kick this doctor's ass for me

you dont understand teslas only catch on fire when theyre very upset

"tesla, take me downtown"
"ok, i'll take you upside-down"

*immediate fire death*

me: ok i will just open the door and get out
tesla: no lol

tesla, i don't want to die
ok, you're gonna die though

*doors lock*

telsa please let me out
im kind of busy right now (being on fire)

Yeah, I did read the thread. At first I thought they were *trying* to make it blow up, to show how easy it was. Instead I guess they were mostly trying to make it go upside down and get scratched, which in turn showed how easy it was to blow up.

Had a conversation with a friend the other day who is convinced self-driving cars are absolutely happening. He's not a Tesla/Musk stan, he just thinks it's inevitable. My counter was that it couldn't happen on a mass scale because there are just too many uncontrollable variables to account for, and as a counter tried to think of a single autonomous, untethered, easily lethal machine we regularly encounter and I came up with nada. Elevators could kill you, but they're on a track. Same with trains. But self-driving cars everywhere would be like swimming with sharks. You just never know which one is going to get you. Especially if you dress as a tiny stop sign and it thinks you are farther away than you really are.

basically no one who works on autonomous vehicle tech thinks that full autonomy is happening any time soon if at all, and these are mostly people who thought they were close ten years ago, there has however been a lot of progress made in autonomous safety features lane assist auto breaking adaptive cruise control and so forth, of course when you take that stuff and market it as self driving it becomes not safe

Oh, wait, looking a bit more I guess the fire was faked/triggered? Can't vouch, but I found some translated German article:

"For safety reasons, it was not possible to ignite a real battery fire at an event with around 500 people, which is why a fire with pyrotechnics was staged," said the Axa press office in Cologne at the request of 24auto.de: "We wanted to use the fire the accident researchers: on the one hand point out the danger of a cell fire, which can result from damage to the underside of the electric car, and on the other hand point out the problems with fires in electric vehicles."

Anyway, looks like the Tesla has eclipsed the Pinto for number of people dying in fires. Interesting, found a couple of random articles comparing the two cars almost a decade ago!

https://qz.com/146604/why-tesla-doesnt-have-a-pinto-problem-with-its-car-fires-yet/

https://greenerideal.com/news/vehicles/0331-whats-difference-ford-pinto-tesla-s-much-really/

thats dumb just have the 500 people stand back a bit whats the big deal

"Goggles on, everyone!"

a safety issue with evs in general is fast acceleration of a very heavy car is not a great combo

saw a review of a hyundai ioniq where the guy was just lighting up its tires and giggling about it, they basically built a volkswagen tiguan with the power of a porsche macan

even something like the tesla plaid x which is more designed to be a performance car im sure you could absolutely destroy its suspension and what not if you consistently floored it

the instant torque of evs is a perfect just because you can doesnt mean you should situation, and then considering the weight of the batteries you probably just shouldnt, most people dont even care about that stuff, let them buy performance cars if they do

lol I didn't even know this existed:

https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberquad-for-kids

thats very silly

me: tesla, we've not been to the dairy bar in a while and...
tesla: There's nothing. I know. Have a good journey, Mr. Weyland.

lmao

So, this is how well things are going in Norway for Tesla Owners...https://t.co/3rM9EBPovu

— CommonSenseSkeptic (@C_S_Skeptic) August 29, 2022

The car won't start in cold weather

Intense squeaking noise

Car won't start in warm weather

the three bullet separation between cold weather and warm weather is killing me

You have to wait on the phone for a long time before Tesla answers

Oh come on. Ever called, like, anyone? Join the club, Norwegians.

lol I didn't even know this existed:

https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberquad-for-kids

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 28, 2022 10:37 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

my brother got a Model 3 one for my son which Tesla gave him as a “gift” for buying 2 real ones. It hasn’t started on fire yet but it did have a lot of weird issues with the electrical components and the steering wheel popped off. It also gets stuck on anything that’s not concrete, which sucks because kids love to off road these things. After a year (which ain’t much because in Wisconsin you can only really use the thing for 6 months max) one of the axles broke. The only good thing I can say is it was pretty fast (6 mph) but even that is obnoxious because the parents have to follow along.

followed the link. "This item is out of stock"

i don't mind stealing bread
from the mouths of Pretorians

Mojave Desert to Tesla drivers: "send more cars!"

slightly worried this Tesla seems to have had BeamNG installed https://t.co/eLFpvMy2eT

— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) August 29, 2022

the desert attempting to reclaim its lithium

Another problem with steering non-wheels that can only be held in one exact place:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-steering-yokes-are-disintegrating-before-30000-miles

...and of removing all buttons, knobs, and levers for the driver to use:

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/08/31/the-danger-of-removing-all-buttons-knobs-levers/

this seems like the ball game?

Twitter:

May 8th, Musk to Morgan Stanley: "let's slow down just a few days ... it won't make sense to buy Twitter if we are heading into World War 3"

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— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) September 6, 2022

whats he talking about re ww3

Bad idea: "Let's go race our Tesla at 100mph+ in the middle of the night on the Bonneville Salt Flats" https://t.co/PvpANPqCge

— AI6YR (@ai6yrham) September 6, 2022

xp withdrawing from the deal for a reason unrelated to his claimed reason for backing out and certainly unrelated to the scope merger agreement

what does he mean by ww3 tho like actual world war three

Ukraine, I’m guessing

Lol that was a text from Musk to Mr. Grimes

Oh, I belime