I don’t agree with you on the sealed beams, but yes, Tesla set a horrible precedent of tech laden vehicles (the crux of which being FSD and “robotaxis”, which haven’t actually materialized), eliminating physical controls, and going cheap on the interior materials. I absolutely hate that other manufacturers are now…

I’m curious what that Highlander is doing to cost nearly 700$ in maintenance per year. It just really depends on the car, how often you drive and how long you plan on keeping it. Using my outlander sport manual as a basis. Bought brand new at 16K$ in 2016, changed tires once so far (about 700$ on some Michelins),…

Bring BYD here and watch the prices drop like a rock.

A lot of the higher insurance premiums are because of sensor-loaded exterior components, which isn’t even an EV problem. EVs don’t have to be rolling tech-houses to be functional cars but apparently thanks to Tesla, everyone thinks they do. Anyways, as always BRING BACK SEALED BEAMS.

So one gets punished for entering a on-ramp (acceleration!) or having the temerity to stop quickly to avoid rear-ending a car that suddenly turns right without any signal?

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the obsession with re-inventing the gear shifter. The gear shifter as we know it basically is from the 1910s when they standardized the pedals. Stick on the steering column, dash or floor.

Meanwhile MacKenzie Scott has given 2x the totality of Musk’s Foundation in the last 4 years. Her approach has been “I trust you do to the right thing with the money” and pushes it out the door.

are windows controlled via the touchscreen on a tesla x or normal buttons?

I dont think this was suicide. If he really wanted to likely kill himself, he’d just fly on a Boeing plane once a week.

Touchscreen shifters are a fantastically stupid idea.

I only came here to say that the thumbnail-sized image made me think someone took a screengrab from an N64 game.

“Which is kind of a big deal when you consider how common the AR-15 is in the U.S.”

They think they want this, but when the reality comes they would be shitting themselves, figuratively and literally. I don’t have it saved and I’m way too lazy to even attempt searching, but there was a twitter thread during the Texas freeze in ‘21 from someone who’s brother was one of those prepped types, just loaded…

All you had to do was just get gas normally and I doubt it would have ever been found out. 

he takes it to the body shop at the point when Ridge Wallet cuts him a big fat check.

Hey, exceptionally stupid is still “exceptionalism”.

The kind of people who prep for this situation tend to be the kind of people who fantasize about this situation. There’s a part of them (sometimes a big part of them) that hopes this will happen.

Whoah whoah whoah there buddy. How dare you make a logical comment in a conversation about Cybertrucks. What the world clearly needs is more straight line powah! How else am are people going to impress people that do not care about them between stop lights? How are people supposed to be successful in social situations…

but what about the rest of the population that’s outside your Tahoe?

Nah, this is ‘murica. They doubled down that night and decided they needed an F-350.