Twitter Death CultPitchbot hard at work
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-elon-musk.html
every time a company Musk runs puts out lousy, smug voiced copy like that disclaimer and "this is a legacy verified, it may or may not be notable" you can safely bet that he personally dictated it and ordered it to be put in
It's clear Walter Huang's family lawyers have these emails. They repeatedly ask Elluswamy about musk involvement in the video and the fact that it's 'Continuous.' The Elluswamy dood goes on a pedantic back and forth about what 'continuous' means as if the lawyers are likening it to the opening scene of Touch of Evil. They also ask how involved he was who did what and whether musk was keeping tabs on what was going on while Ellusswamy does his clueless routine the whole time.
many board members have said that they don't like my tweets or me tweeting
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/20/23564629/elon-musk-twitter-testimony-securities-fraud-trial
"Elon Musk admits at trial that he ignored pleas to stop tweeting
They have a list.
Among the people who asked him to stop tweeting are Antonio Gracias, a former director on Tesla’s board, investors Ron Baron and Sam Teller, Musk’s former de facto chief of staff, and other close associates.
"I suppose I continued to tweet, yes,” Musk replied when asked if he ignored his advisors and investors"
Tesla, insurers take different paths to deal with expensive repairs
Tesla Inc's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/TSLA.O" target="_blank">(TSLA.O)</a> electric vehicles are expensive to repair - so much so that the automaker and insurers are addressing the issue in sharply different ways.
Remember folks, the shining future of transportation is shitty overpriced tunnels that can allow one car at a time.
external combustion engine
https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-spontaneously-combusts-on-sacramento-freeway
if you were wondering how things are going over at tesla, hoo boy they're going swimmingly
I don't know whether it is sad or funny that the guy who posted Tesla self driving fucking up and made the news still owns a Tesla, but Tesla has blackballed him from receiving repairs to his Tesla.
Imagine posting "my shitbox civic broke down again" on Instagram and having the CEO of Honda turn up and have a meltdown on your doorstep.
where's the legally required high-center brake light (mandatory on light trucks since 1994)?
I hope this will not impact Tesla's ability to sell carbon credits
Steering wheel fell off, just normal car things. But we’ll buy back your car (which has nothing wrong with it anyways
they are gonna pay him aren’t they
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/02/10/elon-musk-biden-tesla-charging/
I am sure the NLRB will take it very seriously and may even tut-tut musk, maybe even strongly
just another software update "recall"
apparently it just disables the rolling-stop feature
now they just need to disable the "hits curbs in the snow", "hits stationary objects at highway speeds", and "runs over children" features
I assume they found out about their (lack of) unemployment benefits tho
Eberhard, who Musk ousted as CEO of Tesla in 2007, said creating software for the electric cars to drive themselves was the least of his concerns when he was at Tesla.
"So, keep in mind that all this FSD autonomous, autopilot crap — none of that existed when I was there," he said. "We were still busy trying to make the car work and we never thought about that at all. That came later. That requires a much, much bigger budget than we had."
I'm excited for the casting on what will be a theranos/the dropout season 2. someone suggested kathy bates could play lonny
"I didn't use government money! I used money from my dad's apartheid emerald mine!"
this shit has a long way to drop, but if his song and dance press event is no longer wowing rubes, it might even happen
and all it took was him pissing off the business and tech press by running twitter into the ground
lol what is this
"groimes sombaddy drapped a loight saba in me truck, loike the stah wahs"
i feel like seatbelts are one of those things that have like, standards, and you can't just "make them weaker" because you think it's fine, but i'm not a carologist
Deckard in Blade Runner murders several four year olds, much like Tesla cars
Actually Musk is such a genius that he's found a way around the laws of thermodynamics
lmao it's mom from Futurama, complete with idiot sons
"shut up, kimbal! mom knows I'm the smart one!"
"Oh, you don't want me to talk about where the bodies are buried during this press conference? Do tell."
Preprint can be found here: https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/1973/version/4094
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19439962.2023.2178566?journalCode=utss20
Still waiting for someone to dig into the Tesla/Hertz deal, when Hertz reported their deliveries none of it made sense, none of their pushing Teslas onto Uber drivers as long term rentals makes sense, a fuckton of Tesla 3s Hertz rentals are being used as rideshares rented by their drivers in my city, like, if you order a Comfort (The only thing worth getting as an Uber these days, a regular Uber is probably going to be dirty and barely street legal), it's most likely going to be a rented Tesla 3
Good way to make sure that Tesla sales in Iceland grind to a freezing halt
Nothing a simple over-the-air update can't fix, I'm sure
Dude is trying to start a cult or slave colony or both
JONES-TOWN! JONES-TOWN! JONES-TOWN!
Joseph Nobles@cspam he couldn't get to Mars, so Texas will have to do.