It’s a bluff to get his stockpile of stock back or to use Tesla’s resources instead of his own. Otherwise, he’d just make another company.

What do you do in a gasoline car that only has a keyfob and no physical key that has a dead battery?

My ‘93 Honda’s battery died (3yo opened a door and left it open when it was in the garage). It weighs 1499 lbs, so I pushed it towards a slight slope and then push started it on my own. Didn’t even break a sweat.

My thoughts as well. Having Teams on Android Auto doesn’t really change anything. If anything, it makes things safer. People obsessed with work or required to work outside of normal hours already have Teams on their phone and are already staring at their Teams while they drive.

The official number of electric vehicles sold in 2023 being reported by KBB is 1,189,051. Compare that to just 252,548 battery-electric vehicles sold in 2020, and you’re looking at a 470 percent increase in just three years time

Its helped nicely to take meetings when running to drop off my kid at school or walking the dog instead of having to be at my desk.  That is the limit I allow myself to use work apps on my phone though.

Yep, some folks are essentially available anytime we aren’t asleep. Even on vacation I spend an hour or two a day doing work, it makes my life easier and much less stressful. But I think I get fairly compensated for that minor inconvenience.

....“Dealers will inspect the suspension joints. [b]If damage is found[/b], owners are advised not to drive their vehicle until it is repaired”

You are acting like everything would default to zero and disappear.

You got this one wrong, just edit the article.

Elon could drop dead today and the markets would roil but the publicly held corporations would continue on. See Steve Jobs and Apple. Tim Cook runs the whole show

First, market cap does not at all equal GDP contribution. Market cap is the total valuation of a company based on the present value of lifetime earning expectations of the company, GDP is a measure of single year earnings so generally the market cap of a company will be several times their contribution to GDP, even…

Market cap and personal wealth is not GDP nor does it presume any control over said GDP

All I’m saying is that it’s a little disconcerting that the richest man in the world — who is singularly in control of many trillions of dollars of American GDP and billions of tax-paid government contracts — can’t get his mind right

Are we really still pretending that the Model 3 is a legitimate competitor for the 3 series? The build quality isn’t even close to the same standard, the interior is worse than all but the cheapest of economy cars, and it’s somehow even less reliable. Maybe a few years ago you could argue about Tesla having the…

Recommending a 80K mile ex-rental as a responsible purchase has to be one of the stupidest hot takes I’ve seen here in years.

Boeing, SpaceX, and Lockheed all doing their parts to remind us why it’s important to let the government do critical work like this instead of companies where mission accomplishment is at best on par with, and a lot of times secondary, to shareholder dividends 

This is never going to work. The Soviets tried a similar design over 50 years ago. They did not have the technical abilities to manufacture engines as large as the ones used on the Saturn rockets... so instead they stuck a whole shit ton of smaller engines together. Rockets are already complicated and when you add the…

Jo Koy’s joke is so basic and so clearly not poking fun at Taylor, but rather the NFL’s ravenous desire to capitalize off of her world-conquering fame, that I honestly think it makes both of them look bad.

How exactly were these three years of random drug tests administered? Because unless they were truly random, with no notice whatsoever, and Musk required to piss on the spot while someone watches him do it, I assure you the whole things is easily faked with synthetic urine. My stoner brother has managed to evade them…