From what I read, it was a gift to him and he was pushed to go.

In their defense, don’t they happen to be composed mostly of uneducated white men? (Note: genuinely asking).

To be fair, his money turned Tesla into a competent car company before he went crazoid, kicked out the real founders (who then went on to found Lucid), and installed himself as the Emperor.

They did the right thing AFTER all the bad press. They’d have been happy to not pay out and just have the story go away.

Same. Model 3s are incredibly affordable right now and, my concerns about their quality control notwithstanding, I’d snatch one up in a heartbeat were it not for that incel lunatic cosplaying as a “genius” Elmo.

My favorite part of this clusterflub is that the designs (Boeing and SpaceX) come with their own, proprietary suits that not interchangeable or compatible. Are the suits backwards compatible with what we have currently? Or are they all different specifications?

FYI, the main page doesn’t show this article at all under the “Latest” tab. A bug?

The ONLY way this works is if people are passionate about the company, the culture, and the work. I can see this in a small business, but a huge company like GM? Forget about it.

Exactly. I work for a paycheck on the bad days, and because I love what I do on the good days. I’m not going to be a cheerleader for the company because I’m FORCED to be.

Ya, the last wave was with the stupid RTO demands because the companies had expensive leases and had pressure from local governments because local businesses were suffering. So they pressured employees to come back into office and watched their morale HR KPIs plummet. Now they’re trying to increase this metric so they…

FIRST GEAR: Ah yes, loyalty pledges. This is something that’s coming into vogue across industries. If people are deemed not sufficiently excited or enthusiastic, they’re viewed as low performers or disloyal and removed from the business. I’ve heard of this happening in tech companies already.

The base model is $70k with 19s without any options added (no self-driving, etc.). I’m not sure what else they could subtract to get it down to $50k - maybe lose the lower touchscreen, make the upper screens smaller? I’m not sure there’s even $10k that can be pulled.

So the dipshits who’ve received billions of dollars in government handouts will now seek to end them because they no longer benefit them?

Agreed. Other competing networks just couldn’t compete in terms of reliability, so the SuperCharger networks just became the de facto standard.

This. The SuperCharger network was the shining jewel in the crown, the killer app of Tesla. Everyone else has tried, and failed, to emulate their success (in terms of reliability and convenience), so much so that most other carmakers are transitioning to Tesla’s standard.

I don’t think he gives a shit about the sell-off being a brave move. He’s seen the writing on the wall and is abandoning ship before everyone else does.

Where the hell are his parents, and why isn’t he in school/at home under lockdown?

Why not just spring for an opulent Orient Express experience, complete with dining car/bar, open-air lounge, and good food dished out for under a 100 passengers?

The funny part is the giant dial is for the mode selector, not the gear selector. The gear selector are those relatively discreet buttons at the bottom of the stack.

Whoever designed or approved that HVAC control stack should be fired. The buttons look cheap and the layout is a bit disorganized. The PRND buttons look so cheap and have no real distinction between them.