Seems like maybe another thing to do is crack down on facilities that purchase scrap metal without asking questions.

He’s a bit late to the AI hype train. Its already starting to show signs of collapse.

Musks trajectory into irrelevance is quickly resembling a lawn dart.  

All they really had to do was come up with some fresh redesigns and a truck that didn’t look like crap, and their sales would be significantly higher today given their loyal customer base that now may be looking elsewhere if they want something new and exciting. 

If the owner thinks that a big ass stereo is more important than flywheel vibration, just think of all the other bad decisions this poor car has been through.

“all the rich folks are building rockets so they can go look at space escape the dystopian hellscape they’re creating on Earth.”

Almost like we can legislate for the common good...

I think there is an upside to this. As I replied to another commentor, my entire 30 years career has been in the world of fear of being fired constantly. There always seems to be at least one manager that will fire people for stupid stuff like not wearing the correct shirt or the like at every company.

Simple really.

Many years ago I decided to take a boring job with a large, boring grocery company. I knew, if nothing else, I would have great job security because it’s a large company not going anywhere soon, and people always need to eat.

High quality vehicles rolling off the assembly line should be no problem with worker morale like this. /s

Overall, I think this is an ideal combination for the Cybertruck. You buy one of these trucks to get attention and be slightly controversial (vs. a Rivian or Ford), so the wrap is definitely going to help with this.

“then at the very last minute, the driver has to take control”

I love how right wing pop culture works. Take a silver spoon kid from a tawny Detroit suburb, then dirty him up and redneck him out and the MAGA crowd loves him. Bonus points for saying tasteless and outrageous things. That demographics’ entire existence is about living in a bubble and echo chamber, they can only…

What would you throw there?

If you are lead to believe by the presence of an Italian flag that your POS was shoddily made in Italy , then you better damn well feel rest assured that your POS was in fact shoddily made in Italy. Can’t have Morocco taking credit for that.

This is where the fall of man begins, it starts with blinker fluid, next it’ll say to trust your FSD Tesla as it barrels into a train, then skynet will be born.

I mean, it’s bad enough that this happened once to this person, but after that one time (which would be enough for me, BTW), wouldn’t you, as the owner, think “maybe I shouldn’t engage this FSD mode near a train crossing, as it almost ended me the last time I did?”

Building an autonomous car is hard, Tesla's corner cutting makes it harder. The system failing to recognize and respond to a railroad crossing is bad the driver trusting the machine too long is worse. 

At what point does the driver accept responsibility here? I feel it is somewhere before it barrels into the side of a train, a ways before that. Still, at least it is trashed. Now don’t repair it, replace it with a regular car instead.