Aral Balkan
Kevin Karhan 
C.Suthorn 
KBA doesn’t deregister anything. Even the Dieselgate cars are still all on the road.
However you are not allowed to use the Berlin Police Parking ground with a Tesla, as the police in Berlin thinks Teslas do not comply with GDPR. (There are many parking spaces just outside the grounds of Berlin police headquarter, so it does not really matter and police men have just to walk 10 more meters…)
@aral @Life_is I do consider #LivestreamingCops as an act of self- and mutual defense against theft and destruction of evidence of #PoliceViolence...
belikekramer
Lea de Groot TZ+10@aral yes, Tesla has always been at the top of my "electric cars I am going to look at when I eventually replace the hybrid"
Its been removed form consideration completely - given everything is remotely updated, I dont trust that they wont remotely brick the car, and on purpose. Nuhuh! No way!
Its been removed form consideration completely - given everything is remotely updated, I dont trust that they wont remotely brick the car, and on purpose. Nuhuh! No way!
Ralph J.Mayer@leadegroot @aral I won’t fly to mars with him either
@tabtwo @leadegroot Oh go on, give it a shot… when has a little bit of indentured servitude ever hurt anyone? 🤔
@aral @leadegroot indeed, let’s take one for the team and become a legend
𝗣𝗠𝗝 ⚫did you have "unpaid bills" on your bingo card?
unpaid bills to google seems to have been the ignitor to this cascade
fsnk 
Jono Ferguson@aral remember he doesn't write the code at any of these places.
At least X and T have regulars who will hopefukeep the idiot in check.
Its Probably Fine@jonoabroad @aral hate musk but love the cars myself.
I don't mind the car, very much dislike Musk and am not in a position to get rid of the car.
Bittersweetheart Transtifa@aral imagine relying on space rocket launches run by someone this incompetent!
Dźwiedziu@anathematrix
With Tesla and SpaceX he has middlemen who “filter” his whims to some degree. That's probably why Tesla is passibly usable as a car (without any “self”-driving, or charging the AC on a BLOODY touchscreen, until you need any service).
And any catastrophic failure in aerospace industries is significant enough to warrant extra-hard scrutiny (well, maybe except the destruction of ecosystems and Boca Chica residents' lifes).
Carrie@anathematrix @aral Or brain implants!
You mean TruthGPT scrapped the data from Elon, Twitter, Tesla, spacex and the boring company?
Warbird
arclightActually they made car owners have the car software replaced with a software that is not better. But now owners can no longer prove that the old software was illegal.
ToAllPointsWest@aral I really had my eye on a Tesla ... until his unraveling at Twitter
otso@aral
his rockets come down too, the guy is a complete failure
his rockets come down too, the guy is a complete failure
edgeoforever 🍎@aral or, better yet, letting them put implants in your brain?😱😱😱
Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor
Kerri Levine
kas1967@aral Any social media that allowed ch1ld tr@fficking to flourish is being shut down.
abcxyz@aral well there is definitely a difference between the engineers at Twitter and Engineers at Tesla or SpaceX.
But you are right. Twitter is currently in incompetent hands. Even the new CEO will take a while before sorting the mess the company faced in 2020
Russ on the East Coast@aral I have this image of a Tesla, on autopilot, on fire, driving around in circles.
Femme Malheureuse@aral Imagine if this Tesla owner had been locked inside his vehicle in the heat instead of locked out.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-owner-locked-out-12-volt-battery-died-heat-2023-7
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-owner-locked-out-12-volt-battery-died-heat-2023-7
Foolsgarden@femme_mal you merely use the inside door handle to get out. No electricity required.
Dec [{(
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Right after you 'merely' find out where the Emergency Manual Release (handle or cable) is hidden.
Right after you 'merely' find out where the Emergency Manual Release (handle or cable) is hidden.
@dec23k @femme_mal it’s not hidden. It’s a regular door handle that is located where door handles usually are. Teslas have plenty of issues with things like “autopilot” but that is not one of them. Just sayin’.
@foolsgarden @dec23k LOL so you're saying a door mechanism which is operated by electronics from the outside and operated physically from the inside will *never* fail when the battery suffers a catastrophic failure potentially taking all electronic controls with it at the same time.
Got it. What incredible faith you have in Tesla vehicle brand. https://www.enjuris.com/defective-products/tesla-battery-fire/
@femme_mal @dec23k it’s not a matter of faith. It’s just how the mechanical door handle operates. That’s all.
@foolsgarden @dec23k Okay. Sure. A mechanical door which is also attached to electronics for opening *always* works this way.
Even when a battery explodes. Got it. Bookmarking this just to remind myself that the individuals fried inside a Tesla could have simply operated the door handle from inside.
Have a nice life. Enjoy your Tesla.
@femme_mal @dec23k um. If the battery explodes you won’t be opening the door in any case.
I understood your comment to pertain to the opening of the door in case of a dead battery.
@foolsgarden @dec23k There are many ways for a battery to die.
Fire and explosion have proven to be one of them.
@femme_mal @dec23k well. Ok. Next time I hear someone say they have a dead battery I’ll be sure to ask them if it exploded :-)
@foolsgarden @dec23k As I said, have a nice life.
@foolsgarden
I did a search before posting the above.
First result:
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-7A32EC01-A17E-42CC-A15B-2E0A39FD07AB.html
"Model 3 doors are electrically powered. To open a door while sitting inside, press the button located at the top of the interior door handle and push the door open."
"To open a front door in the unlikely situation when Model 3 has no power, pull up the manual door release located in front of the window switches."
Not impossible, but definitely not the same as typical car door handles.
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@foolsgarden
The manual also says: "Manual door releases are designed to be used only in situations when Model 3 has no power", which seems to be intended to discourage their use during 'normal' operation.
So, the typical user won't have any muscle memory for using the mechanical release, when they are suddenly involved in a no-power situation.
And that's just the front doors.
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@foolsgarden
Rear doors, from the official manual:
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_eu/GUID-7A32EC01-A17E-42CC-A15B-2E0A39FD07AB.html
"To open a rear door in the unlikely situation when Model S has no power, fold back the edge of the carpet below the rear seats to expose the mechanical release cable. Pull the mechanical release cable toward the center of the vehicle."
I'm happy to learn that there is an inside (front door) handle with a fully mechanical release, but that rear door release cable is definitely hidden.
Hidden under the carpet.
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@dec23k it is just the front doors as you said. Not good in an emergency! But they are positioned where the handle should be. No muscle memory needed. In fact I had to train myself not to use it because I was used to a regular handle. Seems to take more memory to not use it ! :-)
The window is frameless, like on Mercedes etc. When you open the door with the button, it lowers the window a bit to protect the glass
They should have it on the rear doors too, but they didn’t ask me :-)
@foolsgarden
That "save the window" dance is probably why the manual says not to use the handle. It's not just 2 mechanisms acting on the same lock.
That "save the window" dance is probably why the manual says not to use the handle. It's not just 2 mechanisms acting on the same lock.
Nicole ParsonsThe incompetence is deliberate.
Saudi despots and the oil industry does not want an America that has a functioning democracy and a successful transition to renewable energy.
So they helped Musk buy Twitter. They are bringing Tesla along the way as they dismantle it piece by piece too.
The Russians and Chinese don't want a American space program so they're bringing down SpaceX too.
With Musk's willing participation.
Locksmith@aral the series of accidents with those "auto-pilot" software should have given a hint.
@aral perhaps the more he is absent from one company of his, the less he disturbs the people with some competence running it. Perhaps the people at Tesla and SpaceX were relieved he was spending so much time ruining Twitter and and not there to annoy the hell out of them.
My father used to say, simply not disturbing us, you are already helping.
nso@aral fear management
Penny@aral good point
emmasrandomthoughts@aral Imagine getting into a spaceship by Elon! It's terrifying.
KevinFlynn 
Craig Grannell@aral I hear new Teslas will only go 600m per day. Although they’ll go 6000m if you pay Musk an extra $8 per month.
PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼@craiggrannell @aral Is that metres or miles? ;-)
@PaulNickson @aral Metres. And no-one will need to go further than 6km, right? That way lies madness.
@craiggrannell @aral And beyond that, the intended destination. Definitely madness.
GeekGyrl