You wrote it accurately: “human-caused climate change”. I get so fed up with it written as “climate change” as it the globe’s changes exist as an entity onto themselves—they do not. Every human born causes just that much more carbon emissions—First World births being more destructive than Third World births due to…

All the LSs are like this, just the LS400 is noteworthy for being the first one and doing so many things right. It was Lexus’s first product, had brand-new everything (platform, motor, assembly line, literally everything), and it managed to compete so well in the difficult-to-enter luxury sedan space that it actually…

“the wheel covers destroying tires”

This is the part that’s a bit of an issue:

Yeah, they are spending thousands per CyberTurd to improve the “efficiency” for the owners out of the goodness of their hearts. Sure they are... I’m rarely one for conspiracy theories, but this had to be something *bad* that they don’t want to end up as a public recall.

Fiskers Ocean and the crappy Vinfast vehicle are probably the only worse offenders.

I’m absolutely sure they sat on the CT from its unveiling in 2019 until the beginning of 2023, then speed ran its development and testing. Some automakers test their cars for years and millions of miles. I’d bet they “tested” the CT for a couple months and drove it a couple thousand miles before putting it on sale.

This car is an interesting industrial case study in how much you can use your customers as beta testers. Between the pedal slipping, the wheel covers destroying tires (indicating less than a couple hundred miles of road testing before sale), bad build quality, etc, this has to be the single most unprepared automobile…

Funny how embracing the absolute worst that society has to offer turns out to be bad for business. I’ve been saying it for months, now: People just don’t want to buy from a racist piece-of-shit con-man.

Before I read the post, I thought, ‘What difference does it make? If they compensate for issues found with Elon’s rides and those ultimate dregs to society—influencers—wouldn’t improvements implemented due to what was found on those recordings automatically be helpful to all other fools who bought that software?’

I had a project years ago with the person who runs the medivac (correct term is actually air ambulance) program of a certain southern US state. He noted that with the increased temperatures, coupled with his state being one of the most obese in the country, their air ambulance group was seeing a marked decrease in…

If the only thing preventing me from certain death is my car’s AC- I would just plain avoid going to this place.

The model 3 seems to be doing well around me.  I rarely see a Model S and I’m not sure if I could tell if it’s a new one.

Oh of course. I was laughing as I was writing it. None of this behavior is normal or ok.

“Fanboy finally criticizes Tesla”

Car emissions are out of sight, out of mind for you I think. Take a look at photos of LA from the 70s if you want to see what life could be like. You don’t care because emissions have improved DRASTICALLY because of this ruling. Regardless, we shouldn’t have to choose which protection we want more, the people should…

Hey, those guardsmen’s time is worth something too - why make them waste it on him?

Joe Biden is not trying to curb auto emissions. He just rolled back regulations on them. He campaigned on it. And he did initially push through some. But then backtracked.

And that particular area in Death Valley is called Furnace Creek. For comparison, my furnace shuts off its burner when the pipe going through it reaches 120F, which is pretty close to the air temperature there during the summer day.

In the area around one of the bigger geysers in Iceland, there’s a sign to the effect of “this will burn you, badly, and the nearest hospital is an hour away.” Seemed like suitably severe messaging for a country that just doesn’t need their health care system burdened with idiocy.