I look forward to reading them tie themselves into knots trying to be “fair” about something objectively terrible. Presumably the review won’t mention how a significant number of people will be laughing at you while you’re driving it and (most likely correctly) assume you’re an awful person due to endorsing Elon Musk…

Whenever DoD auditors dare to audit these folks and subsequently fail said audit, their response is “so what?”.  They then direct them to the many Congressmen who are in their pockets.  

I would really love some reporting on how Boeing was awarded $4.2B for this contract while SpaceX was awarded only $2.6B and SpaceX is saving these astronauts.

I really wonder about all the military spending and what our ROI on it really looks like by continuing to fund Lockheed, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon,…

Yeah but, like, that costs money.

At least the door stayed attached so Boeing is getting better.

My point was that the iPhone was NOT an innovation. It was a flashy repackaging of existing stuff. Same as the iPod, or anything else Apple did after the Apple II.

Also a mental health exam since that’s bound to be questionable at best if a person is trying to buy one of these hunks of junk.

If you’re dumb enough to give Musk your money, I have zero sympathy for you.

I think that’s really something that is highlighted when QA started to drop the ball - Tesla doesn’t have that extra chance to catch these things at the dealership. And the dealerships (as shitty as some are) generally want the pickup to go smoothly since it’s their final chance to ensure a good experience that brings…

Eh. No defense for Tesla, but new cars are pretty much always delivered dirty to the dealership, where they are then “detailed” (usually piss-poorly, but better than nothing). With no dealership experience to speak of, and cars delivered directly to customers, they’re getting dirty cars.

Counterpoint: He is smart in exactly zero ways, he is a conman and a snake oil salesman who got rich marketing the ingenuity of others.

So far we’ve seen this robot as a guy in a spandex suit, then an elaborate mechanical turk being puppeted by someone just off camera, and now locked away behind glass. But surely it’s not just more vaporware to pump Tesla stock price.

It’s almost as if the car selling business seems to attract scammers like Dan. 

Selling cars is often a soul-crushing grind.

I’ve now seen two in the wild, one parked and one driving. I can assure you that no matter how dumb you think they look in pictures, that is nothing  compared to how dumb they look in person.

Considering the cybertruck saga, the robots won’t even need to go rogue. They’ll maim and kill people as they go about their regular tasks, trying to be as helpful as they can.

Or they’ll just try to exterminate humanity because he told the experts to design them with that in mind because he’s a nihilistic solipsistic monster.

After walking around one in the parking lot it has to be the Cybertruck. It has 3rd rate auto show concept car quality.

The most egregious design flaw?  Ford saving $11 per Pinto’s fuel tank and allowing a minor rear end impact to kill 27 people, burn many more, and end up costing Ford hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits, not to mention that over 40 years later, it is still discussed in car forums, law school, and engineering…

Ask astronauts Grissiom, White, and Chaffee if that’s really an acceptable solution.