Elon Musk

That's it, I'm canceling my cybertruck order.

*pours rusty beer in the trash*

Musk's control of the Starlink communication satellites is more troublesome to me than his control of Xitter. Low earth orbital space is a highly limited resource that he has squatted in and there's currently no remedy in international law to evict him.

its always amusing to me how stupid the Cybertruck looks in actual photos because I actually thought the prototype looked somewhat cool. like yeah if I saw one pull up to me I'd at least gawk at it. but when you see the actual thing its hard not to laugh it looks like an RC car that got recalled for injuring children

It reminds me of the shop sink we had in high school.
https://static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/13G609_AS01

All teslas look terrible. I am not a car guy, but I can tell that other luxury cars look much nicer than the weirdly monolithic teslas.

I find it annoying he appropriated nikola tesla’s name. Should be called carX or some shit

he didn't, Tesla existed before he "founded" it by paying the actual founders a bunch of money for the title

Ah didn’t know that.

and yes they dont look great in fact they all kinda look like 2005 Nissans to me. also the interiors look like shit, I mean I know I'm a hater but seriously it looks like model furniture from WG&R inside those

theyre so bad, absolute sucker shit

They’re everywhere around where I live. To be fair, BMW drivers are bigger jerks, even though their cars are far more attractive.

I admit they are fun to drive and have seriously insane pickup which you'll probably never have to use but as someone who's also ridden in them a bunch it often occurs to me that whoever designs them wasn't concerned for anyone but the driver. its not just uncomfortable it's also really aesthetically ugly when you're in the backseat

Once I slowed down to let a BMW driver merge into traffic and he *still* flipped me off. I think it was a way of expressing a general hatred of everyone, even (especially?) people who do what he wants.

Back to teslas — i anecdotally have heard of people using the “autopilot” feature to get home when shitfaced drunk. It is not at all safe to use it this way, as far as I know. Why did regulators allow it to go to market?

these things are effectively unregulated afaict

Absolutely bananas

I've often wondered if stuff like lane deviation warnings and radar cruise have made it harder to identify drunk drivers

yeah prob

All cars should come with the BAC blower interlocks and if you blow over the limit it should kill you

Where’s that innovation Elon?!?

these are the bold ideas we need in these troubled times

he'd probably just make it play Rick Astley while you were driving. I wanted to say Yakety Sax but that's actually kinda funny and not quite as beaten into the ground so it's not really Elon's style

Other electric cars also have insane acceleration, and aren't cunts.

My family and I were upgraded to a BMW on a recent vacation and my god, I loved driving that car. I had never driven one before. It was incredible.

Of course, I will never be able to afford one, but….

Yeah, you can absolutely tell that BMW is putting the driving experience at the forefront of their decision process

Exactly. BMW interiors feel so cheap compared to their competitors.

I’d say more simple than cheap? Austere but durable is a choice and BMWs feel like that to me. Teslas come off as more austere but cheap imo, I have no idea if the seats are more likely to rip or the plastic shows more scuffs or whatever but they feel like you’re in a early 00s Saturn

I hate having all kinds of controls on a screen but it’s funny how other luxury brands do all kinds of weird angles, trim inlays, and wonky control systems (looking at you, weird Lexus moving touchpad thing that’s getting phased out) to seem more expensive

All cars should come with the BAC blower interlocks and if you blow over the limit it should kill you

isn't that where someone was trying to sell some anti-carjacking system that had flamethrowers?

every other car in the bay area is a tesla and I honesty don't have any issue with the drivers of those vehicles (also I drive a bmw and do not drive like a jerk). the worst drivers around here are in fucked up old kias, because they are 12 years old and they just carjacked it and are going 100mph in a 25mph zone.

I've ridden in teslas plenty and they are fun but I would absolutely never buy one because a) musk b) reputation for their quality is awful.

kia boys still out there? damn

honestly driving in the bay area is kind of a pain in the ass because I'm convinced 75% of the people driving are high and just don't pay attention anymore (some guy drove into me at 2mph a few months ago, was stoned out of his mind, and then drove off while we were exchanging info)

Kias definitely are a thing again but it's hard to recognize them because the logo looks like "KN"

lol one of the wildest branding choices

oh I don't mean a preponderance of kias. I mean the kia boyz

oh yeah that is definitely still happening, because I don't think Kia or Hyundai fixed the issue for owners

new kia logo is great, so \m/

i wouldn’t say no to a kia stinger

I ended up with an iX as a loaner while some work was being done on my car and I would not call the interior of that car cheap-looking at all

I also would not buy it because I like regular meals, but man was that a nice car

It's been a couple years since I've been in one, but BMW seemed to skimp on things like electric seat adjustments where they seem pretty standard in equivalent Audi and Mercedes. Also, hated some of their control/layout choices.

absolutely no shade on anyone here, there's not much else to say, but the richest person in the world, who now controls one of its most influential media channels, is an openly anti-semitic conspiracy theorist. seems like this should be receiving more attention in the press.

certainly more attention than gaza-related campus cancellations, etc.

I'm not really sure what he's saying. Seems like some theory that Jewish people push the woke mind virus on Whites to make them depressed.

yeah real its bad he should be put in a cubby

xp https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/elon-musks-disturbing-truth/676019/

(here is a link to the press after i complained this was not receiving enough coverage)

however all the german lux brand interiors are prob pretty comparable, tho they each have their own style so its kinda a matter of taste, and the more entry level ones are not as nice as the more expensive one, tho theyre all pretty nice, especially new ones, feel like with new cars in general interiors are pretty effin good, with the exception of putting too much stuff in the touch screen, and maybe having to much stuff to control in general that will break eventually, pickups are the best for just having big physical buttons, theyre like these are big dumb guys theyre gonna want to push a large button with their fat fingers, which really thats all anyone wants

oh I don't mean a preponderance of kias. I mean the kia boyz

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I saw in St. Paul once this newer kia with this laminated basically FAQ card taped up in the window saying this is a newer model that doesn't not have the engine immobilizer flaw that Kia model years XXXX-XXXX have blah blah blah haha i'm assuming they'd had their window broken a few times

my gf had her car broken into twice (attempted thefts) and stolen once in like three months last summer

btw i just looked and all the big three german brands entry level cars come with front power seats, you might be able to get some racing seats optional that are manual for weight reasons, but thats be a rare performance set up on one of their special fast cars

I have a Hyundai which is going through the same thing and as a result of the recall upgrade to fix the security flaw they put a sticker in the window advertising the upgraded security and part of me wonders "is this just like daring someone to try?"