The point of the article should be that cars are not an investment. They are, 99.99999% of the time, a depreciating asset. Kids, that means it loses value over time. An investment, it has the potential to increase in value and provide a return. You car ain’t that and if you find one that is, it is either very special…

Wwaiting for the following resolution:

“We have reviewed logs and due to the terrain, the accelerator may or may not disengage when the brake is depressed...”

EVs with eleventy-billion horsepower and instant acceleration. What could possibly go wrong in the hands of the unwashed masses, even when they are working properly - never a given with a Tesla product.

Hey, George Miller!

There are people out there making amazing things by themselves, and yet we’re supposed to believe that a 1/8th time CEO that clearly spends a majority of his day on his personal social media site is the ONLY person in the entire world that can run Tesla effectively ,and should be paid BILLIONS to bribe him to do his…

IIRC the version I heard is that if you hang back, and a truck behind you fails to stop or is slow to stop, you can pull forward and “save” yourself without going out into the junction. I mean, you can see all the flaws in that, but that was what my grandma used to say.

It’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed, people sitting at least one car length back from the limit line. Is it some old wives tail about you’re more likely to die if you go up to the line?

It’s usually the exact opposite, where they run on timers during peak hours and activate quickly on sensors in off hours. Places where it takes forever could be perpetually on a timer, but the timer doesn’t start until you activate the sensor.

Oh, great, the release cable can only be expected to work once. As if you have a problem with the cable/plug, it will only happen once.

According to the article, you don’t have to worry about that. Your guess is as good as mine whether this is fully true, and they can of course change at any time (with a long “revised terms of service” text that we’ll all accept).

Saying a brain injury made you more conservative is not the flex you think it is.

Neither driver was tested for drugs or alcohol

From what I later read, he had already moved into the apartment when he took delivery. I’d assume the apartment had given him his parking spot and he knew the location of the space (against a column with limited space on one side always), so it makes it all the more baffling he just assumed it would fit, given that…

I like to think if you could at least look at one on the lot, the average person would be jarred enough by the size of a modern pickup to measure your garage or whatever. At least if you’ve never owned one before.

This is the apartment he can afford. Doesn’t matter if apartments he likely can no longer afford have bigger places. Sure, he could have moved into one with valet parking, and just chose not to do that. 

There many thousands of people with full sized trucks who can comfortably park at their apartment buildings with properly sized parking spots.

That to me is the way funnier part of this story. Is this man ordering a Cybertruck the direct cause of him separating from his wife? Probably not!

I wonder if his pending purchase of the CyberTruck had anything to do with his marital separation?

I’m just glad that we’ve completely avoided the other term used around here (south of Chicago) for a badly cobbled together solution to a problem. One that involves the worst racial slur.