A key difference being that my dashcam does not mysteriously turn itself off before I go all Leroy Jenkins on someone.

the numbers become more plausible if buyers believed that they could get one for $40k, which is less than the current average new car price. but at 2 1/2 times that, most people obviously ran for the hills

Also highly possible that people made a reservation planning to buy one and flip it, then backed out when they realized that wasn’t going to work out in their favor

Those numbers just don’t line up at all. Let’s say they had a million deposits/reservations. That’s 1 in every 300 Americans. Now figure that half of America has pretty much ruled out an EV, at least for now. And at least half of those those that would consider an EV won’t consider a Tesla and/or think the CT is a…

It’s also feasible to believe that this “million” number was purposefully inflated as a stock price manipulator, as Musk is wont to do.

Most of them were never really serious. The reservation fee was refundable

He’s as good a businessman as Trump is, which is to say, he’s a terrible businessman. Musk has been railroaded out of businesses before because of how bad he is. Both men are often surrounded by others who work to shield them from the consequences of their terrible business decisions. Trump has generally been…

$15 billion hit? Meh.....so he goes from ~$230 bill to $215 bill (on paper). Assuming he lives another ~30 years, that just means he must reduce his daily spending from $20.9 million to $19.5 million.  I’m guessing this will not lead to any undue hardships on his part.

1st Gear: This is all an attempt by Musk to have Tesla valued as a tech company rather than a car company. Unfortunately for him, investors are getting a bit tired of waiting on autonomy. This was his big chance to show his plans on how to do that, and instead we got more vague plans and two new vehicles! (Oddly…

Did it loop? Movie: 101 minutes. Flight590 minutes, so given malfunctions, enough time to watch it 5 times?

“The BBC would like to apologize for the error in programming and regrets any inconvenience it may have caused. Those responsible have been sacked”

You realize there aren’t just adults on the plane. If I knew it was just adults yeah, tough shit get over it but it’s not unreasonable to not want your 9 year old to see and hear that.

Would love to know if this company got any US gov money for their charger business. If they did, I sure hope that money get taken back. I knew the whole EV industry was a bit of a money suck, so now we will see how much of the gov subsidy money gets wasted into oblivion too, yea! 

At least in the states I have lived, refusing a sobriety test is treated as a failure. I’ve seen the online “advice” that if you think you’ll fail the sobriety test, you should refuse it and delay as long as you can for the blood test in hopes that it will take multiple hours to get there so your body has more time to…

Not for any place I’ve lived.

I used to work in a bike shop, and we had a similar story with a few year old bike. It was a common model, and iirc we actually did get a replacement, but it originally got pushed far back into a corner, and became a parts bike... like if another bike showed up with a part DOA, we’d just snag it from that parts bike…

If my passengers ask about crumple zones, I tell them to wear a sweater.

I had a similar experience when doing some “spring cleaning” in my lab in grad school. It was mostly uneventful, but I found a box, about 9 inches on a side, unopened, that had a delivery date of 1994. This was in ~2013, mind you. It even had my boss’s name as the addressee, because it was back when he didn’t have…

When I worked in clothing retail, I (an introvert) would beg to spend large chunks of my shifts managing inventory and dressing the store, rather than aggressively upselling our customers. One day I was reorganizing the stock room and uncovered an entire box of beautiful dresses that I’d never seen before, not even on…

But honest question: how many people who live in major cities but also need a car DON’T need to regularly take a trip on freeways?