Exactly. A friend of mine, who was special forces and involved in all kinds of kinds of crazy stuff, once told me “The U.S. Government couldn’t keep a chili recipe a secret”. So to think that all those thousands of people purportedly involved in this stuff over the decades — and their spouses, kids, and our foreign…

Pentagon Reverse Engineered Non-Human Technology For Decades

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Toyota has been kissing up to the right wing for a long time.  It sided with Trump before.  It’s like Musk, and has had it in for California for a long time.  It was first to move from CA to TX.  

BYD doesn’t sell its cars in a vacuum. The Chinese government has invested massively in electric charging infrastructure. The U.S. has not. Our government’s failure to embrace the inevitable EV revolution is dooming our automotive industry to irrelevance.

Is that why BYD is now the #9 car manufacturer worldwide by units sold and is closing in on Ford at #8?

Nah, fuck that. This is entirely Toyota’s fault.

Most of the EVs out there are in the luxury segment still. Luxury cars in general have horrendous resale value. This idea that no one wants EVs is absurd. I see tons of them every day and no, I don’t live in California. Hell, awhile back I was in Aberdeen, SD which is the absolute heart of “you’d better love Trump,…

“China outlaws drug use in other countries”

But why limit a system to only be as good as a human with human senses? Human senses are far from the best senses on the planet. And on top of that, you don’t need to train a system to recognize every single thing, because that’s not even how our meat brains work- I don’t need my car to recognize a semi that’s fallen…

I don’t think Tesla is going to crack cognition any time soon. And not with the current computational hardware on Tesla vehicles.

I’d rather pay $80k for a car with the appropriate redundancies than $40k for a car that can only LARP as self-driving.

Just a point of clarification / definition from the comments: a venture capital firm invests in early-stage, risky “startups”... moon shots that will probably fail, but could change humanity (at least, that’s the purest and most generous definition).

It’s wild that we have this massive business market that literally consists of buying a company and then sucking as much money as possible from them until it dies. Pure vampire capitalism. 

In this truck’s defense, lots of things might appear shorter than advertised, but the key is knowing where to measure from. I’d think many Cybertruck owners know what I’m getting at.

So...also like the BMW X6!

That’s fine, I use Firefox anyway.

The Cybertruck is basically the coupe SUV ie. BMW X6 of pickup trucks. You didn’t buy it for space, utility, off roading, towing, work, ergonomics etc. It is purely a styling exercise.

Coming soon: Trump Kia/Hyundai South Beach

I have one. Ultra trim ($50k before incentives). Sucks to see them go under and my car be essentially dead if anything even minor happens to it. But I like the car a lot. The software is at a point now that it’s fine. Not tesla level but it works. I’ll drive it until it dies. It’s comfortable, good looking and that’s…