KayLeadfoot @ KayLeadfoot @fedia.io

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Edit: Aren't you a mod on the SpaceX board? I'm not sure I trust you when you say you're "not a fan of Tesla or Musk" considering you run a fan club for one of Musk's companies XD

I'm the automotive equivalent of a muckraker, so yeah, Tesla does enough weird stuff that I talk about them a lot. They're hardly the ONLY news I cover.

Take this article, for instance, it was on the front page of Hacker News for a couple days, got decent circulation in European automotive magazines, too: https://fuelarc.com/tech/pop-up-ads-in-your-jeep-the-latest-stellantis-innovation/

Believe what you like, but the videos in that article are just videos, it's not like those aren't first-hand driving footage just because you dislike where you found them.

I was a Waymo stan before Tesla made it cool!

https://fuelarc.com/news-and-features/insurer-study-waymo-is-12-5-times-safer-than-human-drivers/

Seriously, though. I am an avowed enemy of the grim reaper, I'm a fan of Volvos for the same reason. And I like how transparent Waymo is with their data. The independent study linked is really illuminating if you like automotive safety stats.

That part really pissed me off.

I think folks see it for what it is. Sales are cratering, public spaces that are not twitter are increasingly intolerant of the Tesla fanboys glazing the supposed tech advantage ( that we can see with our own eyes is not real )

Leave it to GM to find a way to thread the needle and seize defeat from the jaws of victory.

Guy in a Dogecoin t-shirt and a neckbrace: "i-i-it was r-r-really great."

This put a smile on my face.

No kidding, they fail you if you DON'T come to a complete stop.

I covered that crash.

FSD is never enabled at the moment of impact, because FSD shuts off less than a second before impact, so that Tesla's lawyers and most loyal fans can make exactly the arguments you are making. Torque would be applied to the steering wheel when any vehicle departs the roadway, as the driver is thrown around like a ragdoll as they clutch the wheel. Depending on the car, torque can also be applied externally to the tires by rough terrain to shift the steering wheel.

No evidence to suggest the driver was distracted. Prove me wrong if you have that evidence.

Also welcome to the platform, new user!

Guess what? People already do that.

NYC Mayoral candidate Mamdani is talking about making busses free, and that makes a radical shitload of sense.

Free autotaxis would be a boon for productivity and personal freedom, like AI promises to be but democratized for everybody rather than just the richest fraction of a percent.

The only difference being you can ask a human cabbie to slow down :,)

I thought that was to economize for expenses?!

So naturally they started with 5 employees in the smallest office of one of the smallest divisions of the NHTSA. Nooooo ulterior motive, nosiree

They are currently dirt cheap, because Tesla isn't looking to profit (this is a PR stunt and stock pumping excercise for now).

The rides cost $4.20. Haaah, that joke will never get old, Elon :|

And yes, the reason that it impacts the stock price so radically, is that labor is a huge portion of professional driving expense. If you can make every professional driver unemployed by automating their job, you can make a small handful of people very, very rich.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CantParkThereMate/

T.I.L. :) Thanks!

That's brand new to me! Both the symbology and the magazine, and I love them both. Thanks!

That was not the loudest laugh I've had today, but definitely the morally worst laugh I had today, so cheers XD

I should mention, my Spanish is good enough that I can say "Real Hasta La Muerte" does not mean just "Till Death."

It means "Royal until death."

And Royal (Real in Spanish) is the name of the largest football club out of Madrid, so there is a very high likelihood that it just means "I like this football club until I die." Their symbol is a crown, which is separately claimed as a Tren de Agua symbol, and so Real fans might be gettin swept up in ICE raids in the USA.

It would be funny if the victims weren't getting indefinite stays in a foreign gulag, but that is where it stands today.

Disbanded!

... for effieciency!