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.

Reuters
Remember folks, the shining future of transportation is shitty overpriced tunnels that can allow one car at a time.
Tesla spontaneously combusts on Sacramento freeway

A Tesla spontaneously combusted earlier Saturday in Sacramento while being driven on a freeway, authorities reported.

KTVU FOX 2
Bucky Take the Wheel

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if you were wondering how things are going over at tesla, hoo boy they're going swimmingly

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1621164097470607361.html

Thread by @MoodyHikmet on Thread Reader App

@MoodyHikmet: So, Tesla's lawyers saw my tweets from a couple weeks ago about the deposition transcripts and they didn't appreciate them very much. Here is a video about it: In Huang vs Tesla, Tesla has filed...…

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.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/tesla-fired-employee-who-posted-fsd-beta-videos-as-ai-addict-on-youtube.html

Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube

John Bernal was a Tesla employee who showed FSD Beta to the world on his YouTube channel, AI Addict. He was fired in February.

CNBC
where's the legally required high-center brake light (mandatory on light trucks since 1994)?

Steering wheel fell off, just normal car things. But we’ll buy back your car (which has nothing wrong with it anyways

https://www.nj.com/news/2023/02/tesla-replaces-car-from-man-whose-steering-wheel-fell-off-while-driving-motorist-says.html

Tesla replaces car from man whose steering wheel fell off while driving, motorist says

The man and his family were driving home from the Woodbridge Mall when the steering wheel fell off, he said.

nj
White House aides asked Elon Musk for help with Biden climate goal

White House officials are hoping Tesla's charging stations can be converted for use by other electric vehicles.

The Washington Post
rip buffalo tesla plant, you never scored

I am sure the NLRB will take it very seriously and may even tut-tut musk, maybe even strongly

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/tesla-tsla-fires-unionizing-workers-after-labor-campaign-complaint-alleges

Tesla Just Terminated Dozens in Response to New Union Campaign, Complaint Alleges

Tesla Inc. terminated dozens of employees Wednesday at its plant in Buffalo, New York, one day after Autopilot workers at the facility announced a union campaign, organizers said in a complaint.

Bloomberg

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

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/tesla-recalls-362758-vehicles-says-full-self-driving-beta-software-may-cause-crashes.html

Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes

The Tesla recall notice was posted on the on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday.

CNBC
I assume they found out about their (lack of) unemployment benefits tho
It keeps happening

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."

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/02/18/tesla-cofounder-calls-autopilot-and-fsd-software-crap-that-could-risk-the-carmaker-s-future/

Musk can fix this
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."
Normalizing Crash Risk of Partially Automated Vehicles under Sparse Data | Engineering Archive

DeLorean speedrun
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
Suspicious
Good way to make sure that Tesla sales in Iceland grind to a freezing halt
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Dude is trying to start a cult or slave colony or both

JONES-TOWN! JONES-TOWN! JONES-TOWN!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-texas-town-52386513

https://archive.is/wP94j

Elon Musk Is Planning a Texas Utopia—His Own Town

The entrepreneur is laying plans for a new community outside Austin next to Boring and SpaceX facilities, dubbed Snailbrook

WSJ
White South African guys have decided to create their own towns in the past and lemme tell you, they aren't very accepting places
Musk says Tesla will put sales growth ahead of profit

Tesla Inc <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/TSLA.O" target="_blank">(TSLA.O)</a> boss Elon Musk on Wednesday doubled down on the price war he started at the end of last year, saying the electric vehicle (EV) maker would prioritize sales growth ahead of profit in a weak economy.

Reuters
$60k+ cybrtruks rusting at the factory like some 1960s american land barge

Sure love when my car shuts off on the highway

I’ve never looked real hard at the Tesla UI but it seems fucking weird for a car to have like a notification icon with an incredibly important information about stuff like traction control. Like I gotta tap a bell icon, while driving on the highway, to be told this?

pretty long letter but she makes a good point... unfortunately if anyone took board member independence and conflicts of interest seriously pretty much every company would be in trouble

I assume he's already posted something extremely sexist about this

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/17/warren-urges-sec-to-investigate-tesla-over-twitter-ties-governance.html

Is your Tesla covered in blood, organs, and mangled stroller parts? Good news, now they all wipe right off!
Hahaha holy shit did they use black seamsealer instead of paint
@cspam Is the opposite of *chef’s kiss* *waiter’s fart*?