Toyota does this too. The vehicle tries to annoy you into getting it serviced. 

I wonder which is less Apocalypse-Ready... This 40-year-old, (probably carb’d) V12 Lambo on original tires, or a brand-new Cybertruck?

Well, that’s is expected, right? This is what happens when you sign up to be a Tesla customer Beta tester.

those submicrons are a mf.

Thumbs up to referencing usenet, old man. You are a true pioneer.

It may be possible to recover the system by performing a vehicle power cycle: Exit the vehicle, close all doors, reenter the vehicle, and attempt to drive.

Tesla (the corporation) is also in the midst of a long-term ‘critical steering error’.

its bespoke autonomous vehicle that doesn’t have a steering wheel called Origin

From CarGurus.  I’d argue that any EcoSport, new or used, is the worst way you can spend your Automotive dollars.  Tied with 1st-gen Jeep Compass.

It’s a moving computer. Throw your lappy out a 2nd story window....say, into some grass, and you’ll get just enough damage to bork it but it wont look unborkable. Yet it is, b/c 2.3 million different electrical connections need to be intact and some of them are now in fact tact, and ya don’t know which ones, and you…

Truly, the most apocalypse ready vehicle is one that requires and endless series of software checks and troubleshooting that ultimately doesn’t work.

The Ford Edge put a few new creases into the design.

And that’s why no one reads The Onion anymore. ;)

I don’t know that I’d spend $22k on this. But... $15k easy. That V6 is fantastic. They drive well. They’re comfortable. This era was safe, reliable, and cheap to insure. The JBL sound system sounded great for a factory set. It doesn’t have a million electronic things to go wrong. It will run for another 20 years. I’m…

Stolen joke. “Texas has the gumption to show their Yelp rating on the state flag.”

So you create a culture of fear and distrust. Ensure every loony is armed to the teeth. Create a series of regulations that absolves said loonies from the consequences of shooting first and asking questions later if they feel “threatened.” Then you’re suprises that the loonies see everyone else as others?

Remember Hurricane Katrina? When all the dust settled, we started to hear stories about roving groups of armed men who would place themselves at the ends of bridges and shoot at people they didn’t want getting near their “community.” I’d bet it’s more like that. This is their chance to live out some “Escape From NY”…

We just are so much better than this.

The argument from more serious investors used to be that it was priced high because Tesla was supposedly going to become the Windows of EV Operating Systems or something like that.

Stonks, line go up! Something, something, buy dogecoin.