What ARE all those black marks on the walls anyway?  I assume that is not from Teslas veering off the pathway and climbing the walls, right?

Speaking VERY relatively here... I gotta be honest. It looks better wrapped in ANYTHING than it does in its own ugly-ass dirty stainless panels.  Yes, even that floral print.

This used to happen to my PC gaming joystick all the time.... in the 80s.

I don’t even understand the appeal of this thing for NON-truck stuff. The flat panels make it look primitive to me rather than futuristic. Like it was built by a civilization that hadn’t yet figured out how to bend steel into more complex shapes.

Depending on who wins — former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris — the world of EVs could look a lot different to start 2025.

For me the damning thing in the header photo is that green at the top of the windshield. Yep... that’s a reflection. If light from inside the car is reflecting off the windshield back towards your eyes at night.... it is objectively wrong. This is not about taste. It’s just wrong.

IMHO, any type of driver assistance that lets a driver take their hands off the wheel should not be available. It absolutely raises the possibility for BAD outcomes.

Imagine how much better we could be at sensing things if we ALSO had laser beams coming out of our eyeballs.

Your $80K car is also LARPing.

I doubt they are unaware. This is clearly a business decision and, as far as that goes, who exactly is proving them wrong on that business decision? Are people rushing out to buy better-than-Autopilot non-Tesla EVs at a premium price for lidar?

This. It doesn’t matter whether there’s a disclaimer that states this whole thing was the owner’s fault. It’s in any case kind of concerning the car can’t “see” an object headed straight for the rear window.  If they are going to stick with just cameras, maybe the rear camera needs to be mounted on the roof line like…

It’s a little annoying but I like to think it’s even more annoying to the dipshit who decided to ditch a well-known brand name for no good reason other than his own hubris and narcissism.

Re-reading my own post a day later, I guess there is one thing I missed: People often express their desire to boycott Tesla as “not giving that asshole Musk any money” but in reality, the entity you want to harm financially IS Tesla. And not because Musk will ever care but maybe because eventually Tesla’s shareholders…

Refusing to buy from someone because of their expressed morals/politics isn’t pointless.

I didn’t say it was a ringing endorsement. I said refusing to buy because of Musk’s politics is rather pointless. If you want to avoid them because you think the company is headed down the tubes, that’s a different and wholly valid reason not to buy.

He doesn’t care. He doesn’t have to. He’s rich. He literally just told everybody he’s not interested in making cars anymore and his company isn’t about making cars. People who think they are sticking it to Musk by boycotting Tesla cars are just denying themselves a good product. And buying one puts money in a whole…

He’s the CEO of a car company who just said he’s not interested in making cars anymore. Maybe he really IS Tony Stark after all! :)

The personality part is basically what I said. Trump is projecting this strongman image that is undoubtedly swaying people who just assume he’s going to be this tough guy leader.

It’s probably also on brand that he’s engaging in a copyright violation even using that photo on a commercial product since it belongs to the Associated Press, I think.

I am more disappointed and disgusted with people in general than I am with Trump specifically. Trump could be as addled as Biden is at this point, and probably is, and it won’t matter simply because he does it all more energetically than Biden. He projects strength while Biden seems frail. It is 100% appearance over…