I don’t know whether you could automatically add an invisible request in the prompt, but every time a customer starts a conversation with the AI, they should program in an invisible initial prompt that’s something like “for the duration of this session, only respond to car- or dealership-related questions. If I ask…

To limit their ability to try and sabotage it, next referendum should be that the state legislature can’t pass any new laws or regulations governing abortion without applying them to all health care, unless a two-thirds majority agrees in a referendum first. 

Like you said, it’s the budget. Wonka will be a success in theaters alone if they make it to $250 million world-wide - and it’s nearly two-thirds of the way there.

It genuinely is weird that Musk was so married to stainless steel for it, for years.  Musk is usually kind of mercurial and flexible, which can actually make him pretty quick to switch on stuff if the merit is there (that’s why SpaceX pivoted to Stainless Steel for its Starship rocket, when they’d initially planned to…

I’d be curious to know how reliable these are - I’ve seen a bunch of them before doing Amazon deliveries. EVs should be more reliable than combustion vehicles, but in practice I’m not sure that’s been the case. 

Is a “micro-club” just renting a fancy private room and bartender for drinking? 

We’ll have to see how reliably it can do the stuff it <em>can</em> ostensibly do. Change and unpredictability in tasks are the bane of robots. 

It’d be nice if they can make it profitably while keeping that sub-$25,000-after-tax-credit price.  We need those a lot more than expensive EV trucks. 

I’m not rich enough to take advantage of that regressive tax structure. I could probably find a cheaper house there, but I’d be paying through the nose on property tax, sales tax, and utilities. 

The Tesla CEO has good reason to want the case to play out in Texas, which caps monthly child-support payments at just $2,760 per month for three children.

EV buses really need battery-swapping so they don’t need to wait for long charge times, as well as better batteries. 

That might be fine for small vehicles, but for large vehicles you’re talking about putting charging stations in often remote areas where it effectively needs the electricity supply of a small city. I don’t think it’s going to be cheaper to have that available versus shipping in charged truck-sized battery packs.

More specifically, it’s the exact opposite of the quoted line. The empire can’t be saved, but it can be restored quicker than it otherwise could down the line.

THERE IT IS. I was wondering why Tesla wasn’t offering the opportunity to jump the queue for a shit-load of money. Looks like they figured out a way to do that without openly doing it.

I feel like this would be more useful for larger commercial vehicles, like trucks. Instead of needing a megawatt-level charger everywhere that takes an hour to charge a truck battery, you can instead ship around charged battery packs and swap them out at swap stations.

The Germany situation is the more interesting one for me, because Tesla will just potentially abandon Sweden as a direct market if Musk doesn’t feel like dealing with the unions. But he has an actual Gigafactory in Germany, and that makes a potential strike there much more painful.

Swift was basically ripe for a public “fall” in 2016, given how massively over-exposed she was in 2015.  It didn’t really mean anything except some personal humiliation, though.

I think that if a foreign company can sell EVs without dumping below $20,000, we should allow them to sell them in the US after some quick safety testing with minimal tariffs.

1st Gear: THANK YOU. It’s good to see some pushback to the “EV sales in trouble” narrative - the growth rate has declined, but that’s like “Oh no, it’s down to only 36% growth over the past year”.

Granted, the core cast probably all made enough money off of it (plus residuals) and convention appearances that they can basically work at will.