Well, the ruling party is literally called the Chinese Communist Party.

“Until you divest from your current Chinese government-owned corporation and are picked up by another Chinese government-owned corporation by way of a dozen shell corporations, consider yourself banned, mister!”

I forget where I saw it but they’re “Alpha” like software is alpha; unstable, prone to bugging out, and not ready for public consumption.

I’d prefer to not have to think about him at all.

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…

Alpha-Dude:

It’s such raging insecurity, they don’t realize they are just wandering around announcing it to everyone else.

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.

“Trump has recently been especially friendly with Jeff Yass, a Republican megadonor”

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.”

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