And meanwhile, in the UK, he had a direct hand in starting the bigot-riots by unbanning the neo-Nazi who initially spread lies about the perpetrator of the knife attack on Twitter. And since then he has been shitposting about how a British civil war is now inevitable.

Also, a system that requires the driver’s full attention at all times is useless. May as well just drive yourself the entire time.

Former Jalop writer Jason Torchinsky had a great take on where we are with driver assistance. Which is that the current level of autonomy is far more dangerous than driving one’s self.

It is not fit for purpose, there should be a recall of all Tesla and that “feature” should be permanently disabled.

Setting aside the fact that riding, for me, always comes with being hyper vigilant, Tesla vehicles have joined semis in the category of special assholes to be mindful of because, statistically speaking, they sure as fuck aren’t being mindful back.

I was a lot more productive at work yesterday because of it haha

0th Gear: Thank god you fixed The Root rerouting (ReRooting?) error.

apparently a lot of people in America still care if the car says Toyota vs Ford on it regardless of where it was made.

Most of his companies are based entirely on taxpayer subsidies: We pay for SpaceX through massive government contracts and we subsidize his obsolete cars through subsidies. The main reason Twitter is in worse shape is because that’s the only one of his mismanaged tentacles we aren’t paying for through taxes.

Ever year for my middle management job at my company I have to complete a survey declaring whether or not I have any business dealings or investment with any company competitors. If I did, I would probably face serious questions from the company and could possibly lose my job or forced to take a lower level position.

The majority of their net earnings for the quarter was made up by regulatory credits. I have a feeling that Tesla pulled some of those credit sales forward into the quarter to prevent the results from looking more dismal. Likely selling credits at a discounted price to get other automakers to stock up.

This makes…

And now Musk has reneged on his $45 mill/month to Trump. His “reasoning”? He doesn’t believe in the “cult of personality”.

“we’ve always managed to easily exceed Lucid’s own range and efficiency ratings, so perhaps this updated range is closer to Rawlinson’s holy grail than the numbers might make it seem.”

If current EV market is 8% and Tesla is less than 50% of that, I don’t think they are 5% of total sales, they are less than 4%.

Tesla is losing market share in EVs faster than the EV market is growing.  So far this year, in both Q1 and Q2, they sold less than they sold in Q1 and Q2 last year.  down 8.5% in Q1, and 5% in Q2.  It’s to the point that their drop in sales is making the EV market’s growth look quite a bit slower than it actually is…

5% is a very broad number when talking about total market of vehicles sold. You need to break that down to at least the nearest basis point to make it something meaningful to shareholders and market experts. Because for example, the same 5% this year and last year could actually be 5.49% last year versus 4.50% this…

The Tesla line-up is very old.

The Model S absolutely still looks terrible compared to a Taycan.

^This comment should be a slideshow!

And the irony of course is that often times the most successful ideas are the ones that are new and “out of the box”. That’s why they got everyone’s attention in the first place (including the investors).